@Chas@pianokeyjoe
thanks y'all! i ended up breaking off one of the buttons for rhythm preset while opening it up to clean it so i can see how they'd get lost easily 😕
speaking of opening it up to clean it, i've done it about 15 times and there's some improvements, the chord section mostly works now but it seems there's still one or two notes that are stuck.. surprisingly the circuit board looks pretty clean so i have no idea what to do at this point other than just not using the accompaniment section since i've been driving myself crazy cleaning it over and over again to diminishing improvements...