[sdiy] MonoPoly resolved..sort of..Mystery remains..

[Bob Weigel]

Well it all works.  The genius who put glue on the key contacts and put 
the wrong contacts in also managed to put two cables in switched.  It 
happens that, the cable for the LED's on the panel and the bender/wheel 
cables are the same type and..actually are MORE convenient to hook 
up...wrong. Wow.  it looked so right.  And I was TOTALLY bumfuzzled by 
the fact that

1) the chip that latches the gates for the oscillators and the chip that 
flip flops the LED's status for the modes are hooked to...the SAME DATA BUS

2) the only line which could possibly give them a clue as to when their 
data is 'up'....are the 'clock' lines that go from individual pins on 
the cpu.  Well the Gate one is shared by another chip for trigger 
control. But anyway....

3) My tek466 can no way sense that either of those lines ever flicker 
under any circumstance!  MAN...I wasted so much time trying to do what 
SEEMED the 'obvious' (Beer spill all over the freakin CPU board!  Pull 
up chips, clean under them, test the chips...swap the chips etc.  I 
mean...wouldn't ya THINK that since you can't see the clocks move and 
you tried a good cpu that...it must be something still shorting in the 
slurry? grrrrr!)

Well that one goes down in the anals of AYIIIEEEE!  If anyone has any 
kind of clue why I can't see those clock signals, I'd appreciate 
knowing. However the thing tuned up and runs awesome now it seems.  A 
little fine touch up and it'll look super nice too.  So at least I 
should be able to comp myself if I ever decide to sell it...
      Which might not be too long.  I love it but I have so many mono's 
and I dunno. I'll have to play it live a few times and see how it goes.  
It's definitely more useful than the CS-20M I think unless you 
are..doing bass lines maybe.  Not as useful as Octave cat for raw sound 
dimensional latitude I don't think but better for the fx and arpeggiator 
of course.  Tonally I think the DS-1 rocks and though it's not nearly as 
capable I don't think I'll lose it.  It is well set up for performance.  
Maybe the CS-15D should go first just cuz it's so like the 20M sound 
wise but not as capable.   Baby steps to the "sell item" link... -Bob