hi people

I'm having a problem which I hope some well-informed person here may be able to help with.

I've been using a D110 for some years with no problems (triggered from Cubase), but a few weeks ago it jumbled its memories up - the A and B banks and the R bank had the tones in different locations from before, and some other timbre assignments like pitch bend were changed to apparently random figures.

We put the tones back in the right place, but then discovered a strange phenomenon. On some sounds, the scale was no longer 12 semitones. At one point in the scale, it went semitone, tone, unison, semitone. I.e. two notes in the chromatic scale had been moved a semitone sharp. Bizarre huh!?

It doesn't seem to be the tones that are garbled because if you call them from inside a patch, they all go straight up the scale as they should. It seems to be the timbre locations (the A and B banks) that are weird. Not all of them, but some of them. If you call any tone into a dodgy timbre location, it exhibits this phenomenon. If you call the same tone into an okay timbre location, it sounds normal.
For any given location, the weird scale is consistent all the way up the keyboard, but the weird bit isn't in the same place from location to location. E.g. on A12, instead of A, A#, B, C, you get A, B, C, C. But on another one it would be something like F F# G G# replaced by F G G# G#.

I don't think it can be anything other than the D110 that's got the problem, partly because it varies at different timbre locations as above, and partly because it does the same triggered from Cubase recordings as it does triggered direct from a MIDI keyboard.

It gets stranger...
I thought this must be a hardware fault, and I'm using the D110 all the time at the moment, so when I heard of one going second hand for a reasonable price, I went out and bought it. (figuring if I get the first one fixed, it won't hurt to have 2 of them anyway.)

We have now dumped the data from the first D110 into the second, and now the second one is doing the same thing! which is rather upsetting to me as you might imagine, 'cause I still can't do my work, but I suppose one consolation is that _probably_ means it isn't a hardware fault after all. Unless one machine blew the other one up (I hope not).

I realise there are more bits of logical testing I could do (e.g. whether the dodgy timbre locations on the 2nd machine are the same ones as on the 1st); and I could try doing some kind of hard reset on one of the machines if I knew how (which I currently don't); but before I do anything else, I thought it was time to get some expert opinions on what this might be.

Anyone got any clues?

Thanks in advance

Jennifer
http://www.single-bass.co.uk

P.S. It's sorted now

I'm not familiar with the D110 but you may wat to check in the master or tune page to see if has different intonations (scales) from which to choose. You may see something like: Werkmeister, Arabic, Tibetan, etc. The 12 tones/oct scale is usually called Equal.