Troubleshooting Lubadh - for Instruo Support

Here's a video walkthru of the weird behavior I am experiencing with the Lubadh. Making this video public in case it helps anyone else, since my Lubadh content here seems to be the most popular of all :-) (this was hacked together real quick just for support, sorry for the quality) (VMG) The Problem: After recording a 5-minute loop to the Lubadh, any power cycling of the modular rack (or Lubadh) causes no sound to play back, even if the reels appear to have "a length" of data on them. Firmware, just flashed this week: lubadh_v1_3_b(refix).img Purchased Used via Reverb.com on Aug 23, 2021 (Instruo) The Cause On Jan 27, 2022, at 6:35 AM, Info @ Email wrote: Hey John, Your (this) video was extremely helpful and is pointing us into the right direction. This is not a problem with your unit, but a firmware bug that is currently being addressed. The problem is that it autoloads on start up and at the same time is doing all it's initial set up stuff and if the audio file is too big, it will interrupt the set up cause a crash. A temporary fix is as you've found – save the loops and erase before a power cycle so that the loop isn't loaded on start up and you just hit load when the Lúbadh is up and running and it shouldn't crash. obviously this is just a temporary workaround until we release a more bulletproof fix. Cheers, Service Team Timeline: 00:00 Intro 00:13 Firmware Version 00:36 Problem Statement 00:55 Erase (button) weirdness 01:37 No audio monitoring 02:00 Steps that fix audio monitoring (and recording?) 02:36 Recording new 5-min loop 03:04 Playback speed not matching reel speed pot 03:57 Problem demonstration steps 04:18 Power Cycle (off|on) 04:44 The issue... no audio after power cycle 05:23 No more audio monitoring either 05:38 Outro VMG: A huge thank you to Instruo support for working with me to find a temporary workaround for the Lubadh while they sort out the firmware issues and release a permanent solution.