[sdiy] tr808 memory loss

[Ken Elhardt]

Jovius,

I started thinking that we should have had you open up the 808 first
and confirm it used the same kind of switch.  Damn Roland.  It's the
same era gear with the same style of controls, so you'd think they'd
be consistent in their parts use.  I had to recently open up my Roland
MC-4 Microcomposer expecting to find the same kind of switches as the
CSQ, but they're different (have 4 legs).  They're also worse.  All
the CSQ switches work fine after all these years, but almost all of
the MC-4 switches have gone bad (another casualty of this crappy east
coast environment).  I don't know if the switches in the MC-4 are the
same as the 808.  The MC-4 switches say Amp on them, but I wasn't able
to find any new Amp switches that matched.  Maybe somebody else knows
more about possible replacements.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:21 AM, jovius <jovius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ken
>
> Well I made a bit of a bo bo there as I got the 808 out to drop the switch
> in I had a memory recall that I had been through this before, years back I
> had a csq and I thought about talking the switch out of it for the 808 and I
> remembered stripping down and finding that it was a different switch, thy
> look very similar but the 808 has 4 legs on the edge like the tack switches
> for programming and the csq has 2 more in the centre, I stripped it apart I
> still have the base of the old switch, but the switch it self is a
> completely different design so I couldn't bodge them to make a good 1. Ive
> bunged 1 of the tact switches from the 16 step buttons in for the time
> being.so at least it works with out having to sync it.
>
> so I apologies for not remembering sooner but thanks for all your help
>
> jo
>
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