crumar / roland questions.

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>What did you replace the faders with? The faders that are in it are made
by 
> Piher. Did you replace them with another brand?<<<
> 
got something from RS Components that was roughly the right size and
extended the legs as necessary. it's far from ideal, as the original tops
don't fit, but I only had half of them anyway. I think the replacements were
alps but I see now that RS do piher too. they're a funny length, aren't
they? I think I used 60mm, hence the leg extensions.
the brass bit has it's own vca, tho' the triggering is shared with the
string section. I'd imagine that you've got a duff vca or a noisy op-amp in
it's vicinity. you need a 'scope and/or something to probe-and-listen at
various points on the boards and find out where the noise starts appearing.
I use a fostex powered speaker, as they seem to be indestructible, with a
cap in series with the sniffing wire. I'll have to take a look at mine when
I get home, refresh my memory what's on the back. as I recall, though,
there's an untreated output which, with the gate output, gives you the
option of external processing through a monosynth. I've never tried it; I
should. the brass output is exactly the same as what comes out of the main
mix output when the strings are muted and so anything wrong with the vcf/vca
would show up there too.

I can't remember what the gate-in on the rs09 was for....... we had this
weird hookup once, with a modified sh1000 (there was a jack on the back
which replaced the white noise with audio-in) and the "raw" output of the
rs09 went into this, through the filter/vca and back into the rs09's
audio-in. it sounded great, but I can't remember if we triggered the rs09 or
just had it droning. I think the idea was to hold a chord and trigger the
vca from a drum machine or something. someone'll know the name for that
effect in italian, no doubt   :-)

getting parts from roland (uk) is tiresome, to say the least. they have what
I would describe as a negative attitude (that's an attitude that's going
backwards  :-)) to their older products. korg are somewhere in the middle.
yamaha, on the other hand, sold me replacement parts (switchtops, keyboard
keys, a vca, some transistors) for a 1978 product (cs30) the year before
last, and for a handful of small denomination notes too.

d.


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