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Warning!!! - I take no responsibility for any damage that may occur to your Korg M50 by following the steps in this tutorial. Although, I have tested this several times without causing any damage to my Korg M50, I cannot guarantee that it wont cause the loss of stored presets, etc, so it's your responsibility to back up all of your important data to a SD card, before following the steps in this tutorial.

If your Korg M50 is already turned on and the sequencer has been used before following this tutorial, please back up all of your song data to a SD card and then turn off your M50, and then turn it on again to reset all of the song settings to the Korg default.

1) Go into sequencer mode and click on the 'tone adjust' tab that's on the first/main page.
2) Assign '[Osc 1] Tune' to the bottom left slider.
3) Now, select/highlight the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider that's in the tone adjust page, and press the record button and then the start/stop button to start recording into the sequencer.
4) Once the recording has begun, move the value slider (at the left of the touch screen) up and down randomly, covering the full range of the slider, to record automation of the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider. Record a couple of bars worth of automation, and then stop recording.
5) Play back what you have just recorded to verify that the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider has been automated, and then stop the song, then press the locate key to move back to the beginning of the song.
6) Change the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider that you just automated to '[Osc1] MS Bank', and then press the start/stop button to play back the automation you previously recorded in step 4.

If you followed the above steps correctly, your Korg M50 should have now crashed. You should get a message on the LCD screen saying "ARM CPU Data Abort Catched", and then a CPSR & SPSR number (ie. 00000003).

If anyone else on here knows of other ways to crash a Korg M50, please post the tutorials in this thread.

Tutorial No.2 : How to ruin the touchscreen display.

Simply place the M-50 on a level piece of ground and slowly reverse your car over the keyboard. Job done.

adamskii wrote:Warning!!! - I take no responsibility for any damage that may occur to your Korg M50 by following the steps in this tutorial. Although, I have tested this several times without causing any damage to my Korg M50, I cannot guarantee that it wont cause the loss of stored presets, etc, so it's your responsibility to back up all of your important data to a SD card, before following the steps in this tutorial.

If your Korg M50 is already turned on and the sequencer has been used before following this tutorial, please back up all of your song data to a SD card and then turn off your M50, and then turn it on again to reset all of the song settings to the Korg default.

1) Go into sequencer mode and click on the 'tone adjust' tab that's on the first/main page.
2) Assign '[Osc 1] Tune' to the bottom left slider.
3) Now, select/highlight the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider that's in the tone adjust page, and press the record button and then the start/stop button to start recording into the sequencer.
4) Once the recording has begun, move the value slider (at the left of the touch screen) up and down randomly, covering the full range of the slider, to record automation of the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider. Record a couple of bars worth of automation, and then stop recording.
5) Play back what you have just recorded to verify that the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider has been automated, and then stop the song, then press the locate key to move back to the beginning of the song.
6) Change the '[Osc 1] Tune' slider that you just automated to '[Osc1] MS Bank', and then press the start/stop button to play back the automation you previously recorded in step 4.

If you followed the above steps correctly, your Korg M50 should have now crashed. You should get a message on the LCD screen saying "ARM CPU Data Abort Catched", and then a CPSR & SPSR number (ie. 00000003).

If anyone else on here knows of other ways to crash a Korg M50, please post the tutorials in this thread.

have you reported this to Korg?

I found this Bug over a year ago, of us colaborated e-mailed and explained
with the Japanesse team, including Jerry Kowarski the US menager of Korg.
That was after OS 2.04 so there is no new update yet...this was all on the M3.

McHale wrote:have you reported this to Korg?

Nope.

But, judging by BasariStudios's response, this bug has obviously not affected many users, otherwise, I'm sure Korg would have fixed it by now with an OS upgrade.