Hi everyone,
I’ve recently purchased a Machinedrum MK2 UW+ and the first two days were amazing, was really enjoying this machine and suddenly it crashed. Alright, let’s restart it. Okay, it plays back again…then * cue weirdly glitchy sound * it crashes again, let’s take a deep breath and restart. Okay, another crash and this time it was gone. Tried turning it off, unplugging from wall, another wall outlet, another power conditioner…nada.
It was dead as far as I knew.
So I tried to go through the early startup menu, and it keep freezing even before I was able to press a button. Tried a few more times, was able to do a factory reset a few times…and eventually it went through, the machine started to initialize/unpack factory content and boom, it’s alive again!
Cosmetically speaking the machine is perfect, I haven’t opened it up so I can’t go beyond that, but the previous owner did a great job on keeping it intact and as far as I can tell he has taken really good care of it. No loose encoders, buttons are tight, everything seems to be in excellent condition.
My question is: has anyone else had such experience? Any machines that were apparently dead, only to resurrect in glorious fashion after a few wiggles? Given its age I plan to send it to a tech for a routine check and battery replacement, but would taking too much of a chance/leap of faith to keep this machine?
I own other Elektron gear (A4, Rytm, Digitakt) and I’m not usually scared by some occasional lock-up…as long as it can be solved by a reboot/reset of course.
Would love to hear from you all. Thanks in advance!