[sdiy] Repairability of modern analog synths

[Benjamin Tremblay]

At the very same time we are hearing the arguments for the “Right To Repair” we are coming to terms with ultra-miniaturized products that are entirely solid-state. 
There’s nothing to fix in your iPhone, nor most gadgets. 

Last month I was able to take a Sequential Six Trak out of the attic and remove the hand-made mods, blow out the interior, solder back the noise generator, and sell it for a decent price. 
As sad as I was to see it go, it was lovely being able to service this thing after all these years.  A lot of people are buying these and don’t understand how they worked, for example they don’t know you can re-zero the wheels. 
I would love to see another synth like the Six Trak: Multi-timbral, six voices, analog signal path. The only thing wrong with the Six Trak was the 1MHz CPU that just couldn’t keep up. Take some of those AS3394 chips, get some muxes and a nice fast Teensy MCU, someone could put multitimbral analog back on the map.  But it would be better do an open-source hardware project than have Behringer make one eighteen inches long and three pounds. 

The quest for authenticity takes us to absurd places. 
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