Hello, I just received my Mk2 yesterday, and I’ve had a difficult first 24 hours with it.
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Initial setup went fine. After I copied over DrivenByMoss, the Electra locked up a few times when browsing the controls sets (while Bitwig wasn’t open). Not sure if an Electra bug, but I decided to update the firmware…
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On my Windows computer, I downloaded the firmware from the portal and copied it over via USB Disk Mode. I tapped “Restart” on the bootloader interface. This brought me to the Updating Firmware screen. The progress bar didn’t move at all for 2 minutes. I checked this post Expected time to update firmware? - #2 by martin which states that it should take 30 seconds, so manually rebooted the unit by unplugging it and plugging it back in.
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This time around, the Updating Firmware screen appeared, but without a progress bar. Again, I let it sit for 2 minutes with no change. To recover the unit, I tapped the red button next to the USB port, restarted the unit, entered the bootloader, went into disk mode, and deleted the firmware update file. Convinced that the file was corrupted, I redownloaded it, copied it over again on my Windows computer, and went through the same process.
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That process failed again, and now the Electra isn’t visible to the online editor on either my Mac or my Windows computer.
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After trying the firmware update process on my Windows machine again, I tried my Mac machine just in case. The firmware process still fails. Additionally, my Mac was unable to eject the mounted disk multiple times. Each time I tried to eject it, I waited 30 seconds and it wouldn’t eject. I brought up the “Force Eject” menu and attempted to force it, but it still wouldn’t eject/unmount.
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While typing this, I mounted it into disk mode again on my Windows computer and deleted the firmware update file. After rebooting twice, the Electra is now visible to the online editor again.
Is it possible that I have a defective unit? Is there anything else diagnostic that I could try?