Tricky one to describe this but I'll try. Got my Freak today and it worked fine working through the presets til I was noodling with preset 97 Soft Pd. Suddenly the save light flashed, the display flashed up the matrix amount value for a parameter and the filter cutoff jumped to max. Pad not so soft anymore...
Thought this was a one-off but it happens on any preset now. Change to a new preset, and after anything from 1 to maybe 10 seconds the save light will flash, the display light up with a parameter value and the cutoff jumps to max (or a high value anyway). On some patches this will kill the patch completely e.g. 99 and 100 (due to the filter type programmed being HPF I guess).
A mate of mine got a Freak today too and his is doing exactly the same thing, which suggests maybe a firmware issue...?
Anyway for now it means my brand new synth is pretty much junk
Update: it's doing it all the time on mine now. Strange how it was fine for a few hours, now as soon as I switch it on or select a preset the patch changes randomly and messes up within a few seconds.
I updated the firmware - no change.
It's usually, but not always, the env to cutoff matrix parameter which changes. I just set a patch so that env-to-cutoff was set to 0 in the matrix. A few seconds later the amount jumped to 64 spontaneously; I hadn't even touched anything.
Edit agin: just noticed it's spontaneously adding env-cutoff matrix mod to patches even if it's not a programmed part of the patch. In other words, the env-cutoff matrix light will suddenly come on when it isn't part of the patch. So it's not just spontaneously modifying a pre-programmed value, it's actually adding that mod source and destination to the patch where it wasn't present before.
