Turned on Syntakt and my pattern was gone (and possibly a different version of project loaded) - anyone had this?

Elektron Gear Syntakt
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This is going to sound a bit vague because I was a bit confused when it happened but… last night I made a cool pattern.

I turned on my ST this morning and it was gone, and what was weird was that when I went through the patterns/banks, I think some (only a few) of the patterns were ones that were not there previously - like it had loaded a different “fork” of my project. The patterns sounded like stuff I would have made so it hasn’t been cooking without me lol, but I’ve not really used it for a long time so can’t remember what I made that long ago.

In my confusion, I just reloaded the project without saving the one which was open, and so the evidence is gone (along with my cool pattern because it didn’t save to the project). I only have this one project plus a couple of nearly empty test ones, so I don’t think it had loaded a different project but more like a different version of my working project.

Anyone had anything like this happen? I’m not too worried about the patterns, it’s just weird.

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This happened to me a long time ago. My patterns were there but they were either old versions or some trigs had been messed up. It hasn’t happened again and I never logged a support ticket, I just rolled with it. In retrospect I should have logged a ticket.

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This happened to me several months ago. My Patterns were still there but I had to load the Project manually (with the menu) to have the last saved state. I sent the ST for repair. They told me it was a capacitor (related to the memory, I think) issue.

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Oh wow, interesting! I’ll raise a support ticket then! Thank you

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Btw how do you mean load the pattern with the menu?

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Oh sorry, I meant load Project. Corrected.

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Pattern can be loaded using menu as well. There are 3 options on what part of the pattern should be loaded exactly.

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Ah cool. Thanks! I guess I’ll ping support and see what they say, mine will be out of warranty now though so hopefully it was a one off.

The patterns was a banger though so I’m a bit sad… and some of the patterns that temporarily emerged before I reloaded sounded good, I should have saved before reload :joy: such is life

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May I ask how long it took them to fix it? I’m having a similar problem but so far am ignoring it.

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Can I ask if you ever use a powerbank to power the syntakt? I have a similar issue( it doesn’t auto save when turned off) and I’m blaming my powerbank for frying something internal in the syntakt). If you now make a new pattern and turn off is it still there when you turn it back on?

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It was complicated because the package came back twice to my house. I don’t know why, it was at the beginning of Trump’s tariffs. So, Elektron US found a place in Canada (where I live) to repair it and it was fast (1 or 2 weeks).

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Never.

I don’t know, I always save the Project before powering off.

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Never used a power bank. I’ll check tomorrow if new patterns save ok and it was a one off or not

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Thanks.

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