[sdiy] Andromeda A6 hardware questions

[karl dalen]

> All 16 voices are on a single board, unless we are talking
> a different 
> Andromeda A6.

Those i heard/read about talked about swap of 4 voice board,
perhaps there are different revisions? Seams quite costly to
swap all voices of just one fails?

But as you say all 16 are on one board, confirmed by these pictures.
http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-5257.html
 
> > I haven't heard
> > that they actually replace a single chip, a A6 voice
> consist of 2
> > chips, e oscillator chip and VCF-VCA chip.
> 
> There's actually two voices per pair of analog ASIC, so
> there's 8 ASO and 8 ASF chips.

yes your right.

> I also haven't heard of anyone who's gotten anything other
> than a  board-swap.  Also heard from a few people who have
> tried to get chips, but they didn't get anywhere.

Parts of the A6 story according to Mike Peake, David Bryce
and Jeff Platt consultant software developer, some interesting
fragmented inside info on the A6 development.

http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28215&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=45

KD


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