I bought one of these second hand:
When it arrived it worked very nicely. At some point, working in a hurry, I'm pretty sure I patched an output to an output, and now the 1/8/16/32/96 outputs don't work anymore, although the unit still powers on and connects to a computer and sends start/stop messages. Does this sound likely? I feel pretty foolish and frustrated about it, but live and learn I guess.
The other mistake I made was with this one:
It worked fine for a month or two, then one day the signal dropped so low the output was barely perceptible. I tried everything I could think of which isn't much, on/off, restart the Arturia 6u etc, take it out and reseat it and put it back again. Nothing worked.
Then, in a fit of stupidity, I took it out and thought "maybe this one has the red stripe going the other way". I flipped it over, powered the 6u rack on and the whole system went into this low pulsing heartbeat type state. I took the unit out and could smell it was cooked.
What is the point of this post? Basically, I can trust myself to never plug a modules power stripe in reverse ever again because for that one at least, I have learned my lesson, but if I'm honest, I work really quickly and the chance of me plugging an output to an output at some point in the future is almost 100%. How can I protect myself against this? Are there any units that are protected against this kind of thing? I would pay more to protect myself from my own mistakes, if it was possible.
Thank for reading!
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