I know this forum looks down on the practice, but I really leverage Ai for these sort of problems. Put the manual into NotebookLM. Have Gemini search the web for similar issues. See if it can debug it and provide a solution. Might work.
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Thank you, iāve been using notebookml for about a year.
But it would not tell me, if other users encounter the same problem as me -
which was my question.
Yeah you have to use another model which can search the web, see if solution. Search soultuon in NLM.
in an email from Jurgen, he mentioned that earlier builds (one of which Iām assuming I had, and then returned) did not properly have all the flux cleaned off the boards after soldering, which he thought was affecting the encoders. I returned my unit before the updates were released to address the jumpy encoders.
So I recently came into the possession of an Alpha Base MK1 and to be honest, Iām blown away (quite literally) by the sound of this thing. The user interface is quite simple but also quite quirky and some of the step buttons (and other buttons of the same fashion) I had to hit really hard or quite deliberately. So I figured I open the thing up and give everything a good clean. To make the process easier I was looking for some teardown pictures of the AB but found none. This is why Iāll share the following photos I took during the process. The thing is quite empty on the inside and consists of three pcbs (2 for the controls, 1 for the sound generation and I/O). It has some interesting design choices for sure. So many screws for the pcbs! All the black buttons are some really cheap low travel ones. It would have been great if those were the same as the instrument trigger switches, but I guess that would have been more expensive. Maybe the pictures help someone that wants to do some repairs or is just curious. Side note: the button behavior did not improve at all, even though I used some WD40 contact cleaner on them, so I guess itās just the way they work. Rubber coating aside: Elektron users are spoiled with the switches they get 
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I am not sure wd40 is a contact cleanerā¦ or there is one?
just have to wash it off in the sinks afterwards!
just kidding, I used this: https://www.wd40.com/products/contact-cleaner/
I love tf out of the kickās sound. @dizzy youāre right about the kick working with certain songs.
I took @abluesky 's approach and copped the MBase for crazy deal before listing my MK2 for sale. (Thanks for that tip bro.)
This is so true. While I wish the Analog Rytm had better drums sounds, the usability makes it a keeper for the intermittent future. At least more than the AB.
I wish I found more value in the other voices besides the hats 
. But thatās just how it goes.
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I got another one now working fine, except (among other things) those volume spikes when changing patterns (mainly the mbrane).
But the open, punchy sound is second to none and though the AB first seems rather āconservativeā, you can make it sound quite experimental.
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Are there any specifications for creating/naming folders on the SD in order to
being able to change/open folders from the ALPHABASE2 ?
I can load single samples but only one by one
or use the folder function but folders on my sd are not recognized
thanks
ps i really love the AB but why
- is there no āload all samplesā command?
- is there a SOLO function but no UN-SOLO ?
- are there audio spikes when changing patterns
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I just got an alpha base mkii and it does this on the membrane channel every time the pattern changes.
Whats more strange to me is that the membrane channel doesnāt accent properly. The accent note plays normal volume and then the following note is accented. This is more annoying to me.
Does anyone else have this experience with the membrane channel? Might switch it for another unit if thatās not a known issue.
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thatās what i would like to know too: does it happen on all units?
Another question: did you ever store the same pattern to the next free slot 2, 3 times to have a few variations of it? When i do this and change the sound of the FM synth, store both, KIT and PATTERN under new name/in new slot, then the new FM sond is stored, but in all āmotherā patterns/kits too, even if i did not store those again. The FM sound is just taken over from the last KIT saved.
Could one of you check this? Program a pattern with custom mbrane and fm settings, store kit and pattern, change those sounds, store it as another kit on another pattern.
Then check, if pattern 1 got settings from pattern one or the settings from pattern 2.
thanks
I can try on my MK1 tomorrow, but to me it sounds like you may have somehow loaded a preset for the FM synth in multi mode. If I understand the passage from the manual (for Mk1, but should be the same, I guess) correctly, the behavior that you are describing would be expected in that case.
8.1.2 Editing and Storing Sounds in Multi Mode
If you have selected an instrument in Multi Mode, you can also switch to parameter mode by pressing (KIT/SEQ). Now you can make the same edits to the instrument parameters as described earlier in Single Mode.
If you want to keep the edits, press (Knob 16) click. This quick-stores either the Multi Set and the instrument edits. For long-term storage, use Shift 1 (Store Kit).
Please note that, if you store in Multi Mode, you will change the pointed to instrument in the Single Kit too. But only those instrument(s) the Multi Kit points to, not the other instruments in that Single Kit.
Nevertheless, please note that you will change the sound in the pointed to Single Kit too if you edit sounds in Multi Mode.
If you are storing a kit to long-term memory in any mode, the global flags are stored along and are recalled with the next power cycle.
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Thank you, iām sure you are right, cause i had been in multi mode, though i donāt know what the advantages really are. For me the best way is the easiest = like it was done on Electribes. With the pattern you store everything. No thousands modes, Kits, Multis, pools, or whatever. Stuff, which i am too stupid for anyway.
I will reset my AB and then use it in single mode.
Can you solve my other problems too? 
How do i transfer multiple samples at once, if on my SD single samples are recognized but not folders - so until now i could not get the āfolder methodā for sample transfer working.
thanks!!
Sorry, no clue about uploading samples from the SD card. I only bought my Mk1 about a month ago and have not yet bothered uploading my own samples. I do vaguely recall reading something about bulk upload while doing my research beforehand. But Iām not sure where that was, maybe in the thread on Modwigglers.
Edit: And I agree about multi mode, the implementation sounds way too dangerous for me. Donāt think Iāll ever use it.
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there is one more strange thing about multi mode:
if the 128 multi kits are pointers the 128 single kits,
why can i only choose pointers from 00 to 99 for each instrument ?
Shouldnāt it be then pointers from 1 to 128 = the instrument setting from the according single kit? Or can i only choose sounds from the first 100 kits?
i donāt get it ā¦
Alpha Base with custom samples, treated with analog filters and metal noize
(sorry lofi recording cellphone/minispeaker)
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Did one of you ever convert wav to raw for the AB and if so, what are the correct settings?
I tried with audacity to convert my 48/16/mono samples with these settings, but a lot of samples sounded degraded afterwards
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You can just load WAV files into the Alpha Base, you shouldnāt need to convert to RAW the Alpha Base can handle that itself.