I haven't run into that problem on a sound module.. but RAM can go bad.

If it was me, I would try re-flowing the solder on the RAM chips first. It could just be a bad solder connection.

A hot air soldering gun and some no-clean flux would work very nicely.

You will want a hot air soldering gun either way if you want to repair it yourself if a RAM chip is indeed bad.

About the transformer - there is another thread here and it works like you say, you can move the cable to 230v and it will work. Better search for the thread but I am 99,9% sure it works like that.

Check the internal power supply rails. If the PSU is failing, you're going to get all kinds of flaky behavior. Could be the RAM is fine, it's just not running stable.

keropi wrote:

About the transformer - there is another thread here and it works like you say, you can move the cable to 230v and it will work. Better search for the thread but I am 99,9% sure it works like that.

OMG it's true. I'll do the mod tomorrow, that a friend will help me giving it a look (my soldering skills are none...)

It could be possible that the problem was caused by a bad quality stepdown transformer?

could be, cheap stepdown transformers are cr*p
I hope this solves your issue!

The mod to 230v was successful. But it didn't fix the main problem 🙁

Hi!

I'm having the same issue with my SC-88, one night last week it started to snap, crackle and pop.

Seems like the more channels playing the worse it is. When previewing an instrument I can only hear a little static noise.

I'm thinking PSU.

- Did you find out what was wrong with your unit?

Regards.