[sdiy] Repairability of modern analog synths

[ColinMuirDorward]

What do people think about repairing the clones, namely behringer's?
We don't have schematics for the ripoffs, themselves, but we do have the
originals... will those help?

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:06 PM David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Well, I've got a broken JX-8P collecting dust behind my workbench in the
> garage.  My problem with broken digital synths isn't that I'll have to fix
> the microcontroller.  My problem is that I'm very scared to even start
> looking at it with a view to fixing it.  With analog gear, I'm generally
> pretty confident that I'll find the problem quickly, because I understand
> how it works.
>
> What I'm trying to say is, it's a ME thing, not really a DIGITAL thing.  As
> far as the "lazy mechanic" analogy, that would be true if I actually did
> this stuff for money, but since I only do it for shits and giggles, I don't
> think it really applies.  Life's too short to do stuff you don't enjoy.
>
>
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> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 03:42:34PM -0700, David G Dixon wrote:
> > It would seem to me that one big problem with "modern" synths is
> > replacing programmed chips.  I can't speak for other people, but when
> > I open up a broken synth and see microcontrollers, I close it back up
> > and leave it where I found it.
>
> Why?  It's never the microcontroller.
>
> That's like all the crappy garages that used to go "oooooh, can't fix that,
> it's got a computer, it'll be the computer that's faulty, that's expensive
> and needs dealer tools".  Does it hell, it needs a set of tyres put on, you
> lazy tit.
>
> If you see a modernish synth with a fault, it's going to be the power
> supply
> or one of the much-maligned 405x MUXes.  The closest I've got to a faulty
> microcontroller in a synth is doing the DSP in MS2000s - funny I've never
> seen a Microkorg with a dead DSP!
>
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