Hi all,
I'm a once-or twice weekly gigging drummer having pretty serious trouble with my TD8. I use my TD8KV kit for all my gigs and we do covers which amounts to 3 hours of solid playing per gig twice a week. I'm a reasonably hard hitter, but not to the point of alarming other Roland owners who've seen me play.
I was using it normally one day, and the sound started cutting out completely about every five minutes, occasionally accompanied by a blank display and/or a really loud grinding noise. Turning it off and on would either make it return to normal, or give the following message:
"backup NG! execute factory reset all!"
Here I'd be prompted to execute (f3) which I did. Then the kit would factory reset and behave normally, but 5 minutes later the problem recurred in one of its iterations (see above).
I sent it back to the store I got it from. They sent it to Auckland (= big shipping costs) and after doing a 'soak test' (where they leave it on for a day and play it on and off throughout) and giving it an internal inspection, the technician couldn't find a problem.
I started using it again and couldn't find the problem either which was great. It was working totally fine for about a month.
Then last night I was playing a gig, and the bulb in a light which was sharing a wall socket with all of our stage equipment blew, and all the onstage power went off. The bar reset the power and we went on playing, but the problem mentioned above came back. My module was failing halfway through every song pretty much, and it has been ever since (I've played it in 2 places afterwards). It started showing gibberish pixels across the left side of the screen once, and when turned off and on again, the screen sometimes just came up blank.
I was using it again at band practice today, and it was failing pretty regularly, but I saw that the mount of the left arm (which the hi hat and module are mounted to) was sitting right on top one of the middle arms' mounts, so I guessed the vibration transmitted across by the centre arm when I played the rack toms was playing havoc with the module. Separating the left and centre arms seemed to fix the problem completely.
But I've gotten home, and the problem is the same but more regular.
Do you folks have any idea what this problem is? Apologies for the epic read.
I'm a once-or twice weekly gigging drummer having pretty serious trouble with my TD8. I use my TD8KV kit for all my gigs and we do covers which amounts to 3 hours of solid playing per gig twice a week. I'm a reasonably hard hitter, but not to the point of alarming other Roland owners who've seen me play.
I was using it normally one day, and the sound started cutting out completely about every five minutes, occasionally accompanied by a blank display and/or a really loud grinding noise. Turning it off and on would either make it return to normal, or give the following message:
"backup NG! execute factory reset all!"
Here I'd be prompted to execute (f3) which I did. Then the kit would factory reset and behave normally, but 5 minutes later the problem recurred in one of its iterations (see above).
I sent it back to the store I got it from. They sent it to Auckland (= big shipping costs) and after doing a 'soak test' (where they leave it on for a day and play it on and off throughout) and giving it an internal inspection, the technician couldn't find a problem.
I started using it again and couldn't find the problem either which was great. It was working totally fine for about a month.
Then last night I was playing a gig, and the bulb in a light which was sharing a wall socket with all of our stage equipment blew, and all the onstage power went off. The bar reset the power and we went on playing, but the problem mentioned above came back. My module was failing halfway through every song pretty much, and it has been ever since (I've played it in 2 places afterwards). It started showing gibberish pixels across the left side of the screen once, and when turned off and on again, the screen sometimes just came up blank.
I was using it again at band practice today, and it was failing pretty regularly, but I saw that the mount of the left arm (which the hi hat and module are mounted to) was sitting right on top one of the middle arms' mounts, so I guessed the vibration transmitted across by the centre arm when I played the rack toms was playing havoc with the module. Separating the left and centre arms seemed to fix the problem completely.
But I've gotten home, and the problem is the same but more regular.
Do you folks have any idea what this problem is? Apologies for the epic read.
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