[sdiy] Prophet 5, DK600, Delta, DJX and soon Chroma Polaris for sale

[Bob Weigel]

Ooops did I say DJX!  Sorry analog heaven people. :-)  Man that board 
does kinda sound good for  digital board though if you turn off the beat 
box garbage and use it as just a keyboard for a cheap little thing. 
Hehe.   It's in real nice shape with minimal hard to see nicks.- $150 
anyone?
    Before any of these go to ebay I want to see if anyone in either 
group would be interested.  I just fixed up a Prophet 5 for a lady and 
it's in very nice shape.  Some paint is abrased off the heat sink in a 
few places and I may just repaint that before ebaying it.  Paint on a 
heat sink...vintage value decrease?  I dunno :-).  Anyway the wood is in 
awesome shape save an abrasion in the middle of the board on the top 
rear.  It's not real noticeable until you look at the right angle up 
somewhat close.   Also the bottom has some need for repainting but 
basically the dress up job to restore this thing to total MINT is more 
of a pleasure than a job I'd think.   I've gotten the inside stuff up to 
spec.  I did a goop/sheet rubber retro on one of the keys where the 
bushings had fallen off as an experiment while I was waiting for 
bushings; no harm done..it's easy to pull off if someone wants to.   It 
now sounds just like the rest of the keys which have flattened but 
useable bushings apparently.  I got bushings in and did a couple other 
white keys and they are perfectly quiet now of course.   But I want to 
know that someone wants to pay for the whole job before I just dump a 
couple hours of my life into something that I can't afford right now.   
I'd just play it the way it is.  The keys aren't audible when you have 
the mix where I usually have it.   But if someone wants to pay it's not 
that much to rebush all the keys.
      A lot of the switches had gotten non-responsive and fortunately 
nobody had used it for a lot of years so they didn't like bang on them 
or anything.  I used Deoxit on them and I know some people hate the 
stuff but I've had good results doing things like this with it.  It 
indeed continues to clean as the years go by in my experience and 
switches that I initially say 'good enough' when they get down to an ohm 
or so measure perfect after some time even I've seen.  Some of the older 
cleaners like cramolin were known to degenerate metals.  But I haven't 
seen any documentation and, as I noted recently it's NOT all that hard 
to document.  (Using fine balances and sample metal sheets being weighed 
against unsoaked and equally washed in opitical grade solvent before 
reweigh....).  Perhaps someone with the tools handy will do that some 
day.  I'm fairly certain that in this day and age the people at Caig 
labs have not only done this but have carefully examined the chemistry 
of what they are using so that they can without risk put "safe on all 
metals" on the label.
        Oh and this is a rev. 3.2 serial number 1000-6353 and it has 
MIDI!  It sounds really awesome on those sweep sounds.  Some sounds are 
very much like my P600 but I have an appreciation for the depth of this 
intrument now having increased real voltage control facilities.  Even 
things like the discrepency I noted which we see is common to these 
instruments in the attack times over very long time lengths....adds a 
cool character to the piece!  Real circuits doing their stuff!
        Anyway, the thing seems to work as per spec in all ways now.  
Some of the knobs also have scratches of a fairly minor nature but many 
look mint..well about 11 of them.  The rest have some kind of blem if 
you look close enough on the black surface.   I'll have some pics 
available soon so if you are interested..the people would not part with 
it for less than $1600 I'm thinking so if you are seriously looking for 
a P5 in that neighborhood let me know.
         I also have a Chroma Polaris on the way that I'm fairly 
confident I'll be able to work a good fix for.  It's in great shape I 
guess.  I'm wondering if I should keep it for the museum and sell my 
unit which has a few nicks?  What are these worth these days in good 
working order?  See my website for pic and sound samples when you click 
the pic!  Station...5 I believe.  cu.imt.net/~sounddoctorin in the 
studio tour.
         And I have a Siel DK600 which sounds fantastic.  I have two and 
I've written a couple banks of sounds that I'll include in the deal 
also!  Some are very vangelisesque.  These are getting more and more 
rare.  I also have a couple modules in both 120 and 240V.  All nice 
shape cosmetically..near mint I think on all.  If anyone is really 
interested I'll look.  I've seen modules go for around 150 and The 
keyboards in good working shape always bring over 250 pretty much.  
These all have new batteries and are ready to go!  I'll entertain offers 
in that vicinity but I think I'd like to get a little more given the 
real value of these units now.  They're awesome, over 20 years old now 
and they are just flat hard to find now!
       And Korg Delta.  The side got cracked but I repaired with goop 
adhesive and it's fully functional.  The front is actually nicer than my 
other delta but still some of the decaling is wearing in places.  
Otherwise it's really nice and fully functional!  I'd like something   
There is one on ebay selling for 200 something with 2 days and it is in 
amazingly similar condition really.  Mine has the same slider non-stock 
(cutoff) and all others stock.  It has some paint chipped along the 
sharp edge on back though and their is messed up around the 'joystick' 
label.  Decaling is more worn around 'cutoff' on mine though.  
Anyway..mine has been gone through by someone you know is a successful 
service person.  So I'd hope to get something in the 250 zone out of it 
without the ebay hassle but I'm open to offers on it.  It's been setting 
here too long.
     You know what a Chroma Polaris is probably but if not, it's a great 
piece that got shovelled aside in the wake of the DX7.  A year too late 
for analog baby. It's one of the only keyboards that allows you to set a 
pitch bend and glide that are affected by the pedal such that you can 
hold a chord and bend only the note you are soloing on in a mono - 
oscillator stack mode then!  Very cool.  Hear my demo of it.  It's an 
absolutely awesome and EXTREMELY underrated keyboard.   Same filter 
hardware as Xpander/Matrix 12.  Controls all send MIDI but some fairly 
lo res like resonance.  That's it's biggest drawback in my opinion.  Yet 
if you do the right things with it...it's flat awesome.  It just blows 
people away every time I bring it out.  A very useful MUSICAL 
instrument.  Keyboard sounds have a very cool nature to them.  Sweeps an 
ominous floyd kind of sound.  Hear the way I transition to the ring mod 
sound in the demo. IS THAT SICK or WHAT! :-)  I rarely see these go for 
under 400 now in good shape but someone actually ...that swine...got a 
buy it now I see for 100 bucks! WHO PUT IT ON THERE FOR THAT AND WHERE 
WAS I!!! :-)  I've watched these for years and I've NEVER seen that...-Bob