When playing in organ mode on my E-80 I'm finding my bender wheel not switiching the rotary effect on/off with any accuracy. Sometimes I'll hit it and nothing happens. After 3/4 tries it'll finally change.
The rotary effect works fine from the graphics section (page 2) of the vk engine... I can touch the screen and the effect works everytime. I can also control it with the DBeam with 0 failures, just the bender doesn't seem to catch each time. Also bending standard instruments works every time as well.
I contacted Roland service on the phone and the tech in service got me into a diagnostics mode and we re-calibrated the bender, but this still didn't help. We tried this a couple of times, but finally he admitted that he was at a loss for the reason and would have to do some more research and get back to me. He said the bender is not a physical/analogue type switch, rather a digital device and the software is just sensing the movement as per the calibration settings I witnessed...
My question:
A. Do all E-80s have this quirk?
I would appreciate other owners testing this out and replying. On my E it'll switch maybe 5/6 times no problem... either moving right and then left like the real leslie switch on a hammond, or just toggling it by going left or right only, but after the 5/6 time it'll stall and won't change speeds for 3/4 switching attempts and then it'll go again.
I'm finding this quite frustrating while playing. I'm pretty used to using the switch on my B/Cs over the years, and don't have a foot pedal yet.
Thanks for your responses and testing.
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