[sdiy] Re: [SDI] Synth Service Available -- new email address

[greg montalbano]

At 09:48 AM 6/26/04, psnow at magma.ca wrote:
>Hi All & Greg,
>
>This reminds me... I am looking for a replacement keyboard for a Pro 
>One.  Mine has that terrible
>pressure sensitive arrangement that has completely ceased to function.  I 
>believe an alternative
>keyboard was made at one time (J-wire?).  Does anyone know of a source for 
>replacement keyboards or
>even totally different units that are known to work with the Pro One?  I 
>would prefer sources in
>Canada, but sources in the US would be good too.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>Peter.

I've been replacing them with surplus keyboards from deceased SixTraks, 
Max, & other similar synths -- these are the "rubber dome" type keyboards 
which, in my experience, last longer & are more maintenance-free than the 
j-wire types. The job requires cutting the keyboard down to 3 octaves & 
some rewiring of the connector, and reversing the encoder diodes, but it's 
quite do-able.
If you insist on the j-wire keyboards, there have been a number of old Paia 
units showing up on ebay & similar places -- the Paia 4700 series keyboard, 
Stringz, Organtua, etc all use a j-wire keyboard, and are inexpensive 
enough to use for parts.

I WAS doing this work for $100 (including labor & new keyboard), but I'm 
just about out of replacements -- will have to start looking around for more.

~GMM