Hi there!
I couldn’t find any official Novation forum, but there seem to have been a bit of action on this forum, so here goes:
My Mininova was doing all well until one day after not using it for a few weeks, the top C key did not work, and there was an unwanted noise at certain places. The first time I heard it was when working on a new patch, a fairly so-to-say experimental one, and I just assumed that it was me who had gone too extreme with all the editing. I then used it to play some of my old patches with no issues. Some days later I was working on another new patch, and it all sounded good for a while until a similar noise began to appear.
In the end it seems like the unwanted noise appears on newly made patches, but since this problem seemed to appear more I have actually just left it turned off, being worried that something else will screw up.
What I’m assuming is a reasonable thing to do is to backup my patches, factory reset the Mininova and/or install the latest firmware update? I have not yet used it with my laptop, but I just downloaded the MiniNova 1.7 with the librarian that looks like it’s pretty straight-forward. This page has a guide for how to update the firmware, seems like I need MIDIOX, which I’ve downloaded.
But yes, before I set this whole thing in motion, I’m a bit curious to see if anyone have an idea of what’s been going on, and perhaps other possible solutions for it. It seems like the issue began around the same time as the top key stopped working (the top key by the way is physically not good, it doesn’t really press all the way down). It also seems like it is just affecting new patches, and not immediately, but after a little while. And I haven’t really used it to trial and error, so perhaps the noise will affect all the patches down the line?
Any help or input highly appreciated!