roland reset question

[rhjanes]

should have asked this a few hours back. I get to go try and de-bug an older (maybe 3 years old, maybe 5) roland v-drum. rubber pads. I've heard it is 'toast'. But the guy having me look at it, got it to power up and all. It has/was in use in a youth room at a church. I don't know the series.

I plan to take some wire snips, my Alesis DMPro, headphones, some 1/4 cables.

I plan to see if I got signal on each pad to the brain. Then, for any that do not, swap cables. If no signal at the brain, I plan to test each inputing to my DMPro. that check's pad's and cables.

Question: is there a generic way to re-boot the Roland computers? reset to factory. Just in case the youth totally messed up the programing.

Ray

[robert-jan]

as far as I know there is an initialise option on roland machine yes..

[rhjanes]

Yes, I downloaded the manual for the unit I was messing with. The demo worked out to the headphones! Each pad worked into my Alesis DM, but they are also failing. So, I've got hot to "re-boot" the thing
I've got a line on a V-Club kit also.
Ray

[WacoKid]

Ray, which module is it?

[rhjanes]

TD-7.

Got the owners manual downloaded. p133 has re-init steps. I'm in contact with the churches 'expert' who know's less than I do!!! Oh well. I'll reset and see what happens. They have canabalised this kit for the V-Pro kit also, that's where the missing pad etc went.
Ray

[tbone]

Ray, Ihave a few TD-7's & yes you can reset to factory, I've done it with one of them. It's in the menues, but I can't remember & haven't got time to find it today. If you're still stuck this weekend, I'll try to look it up.

[rhjanes]

I found it. page 133. a few clicks and I have it. I'll do it on Sunday when I'm up there next. I've also gotten a dialog with someone who used to use this very kit. He gave up trying to fix it, but he did not try to "start over". It's in the youth area and I really wonder if someone didn't mess around and do something "out there"......like reassign the main MIDI out off the universal Channel 10 output!!!!

I'm also asking them if they REALLY want electronics in the youth area, with basically high schoolers messing with it. Electronics can easily bite you. I know at my last church, the sound system was messed up WEEKLY to the point that it was unusable most weeks (my wife used to do the children's sound, and powerpoint). She gave up and just would take a boom box. Every week, was a new youth "expert" messing it up. All the sound people had given up. Hey, 2 hours to figure out what they screwed with, an hour to fix it. It works one week.........and the next 16 year old "expert" tanks it.

Ray

[tbone]

Let me know if there are any probs, but it's real simple.
Yeah, a module in a youth are would need to be enclosed in a unopenable metal box!

[rhjanes]

Actually, even though it is not working, they keep the power cord in a closet and they padlock the sound area (a kid could jump over the short wall into it......and it took me 2 minutes to find the key, figure out what was unplugged, and switch on two power centers to light up everything.............)

[tbone]

yeah, but you're a natural thief!