<div dir="ltr"><div>What do people think about repairing the clones, namely behringer's? <br></div><div>We don't have schematics for the ripoffs, themselves, but we do have the originals... will those help?<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:06 PM David G Dixon <<a href="mailto:dixon@mail.ubc.ca">dixon@mail.ubc.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well, I've got a broken JX-8P collecting dust behind my workbench in the<br>
garage. My problem with broken digital synths isn't that I'll have to fix<br>
the microcontroller. My problem is that I'm very scared to even start<br>
looking at it with a view to fixing it. With analog gear, I'm generally<br>
pretty confident that I'll find the problem quickly, because I understand<br>
how it works.<br>
<br>
What I'm trying to say is, it's a ME thing, not really a DIGITAL thing. As<br>
far as the "lazy mechanic" analogy, that would be true if I actually did<br>
this stuff for money, but since I only do it for shits and giggles, I don't<br>
think it really applies. Life's too short to do stuff you don't enjoy.<br>
<br>
<br>
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 03:42:34PM -0700, David G Dixon wrote:<br>
> It would seem to me that one big problem with "modern" synths is <br>
> replacing programmed chips. I can't speak for other people, but when <br>
> I open up a broken synth and see microcontrollers, I close it back up <br>
> and leave it where I found it.<br>
<br>
Why? It's never the microcontroller.<br>
<br>
That's like all the crappy garages that used to go "oooooh, can't fix that,<br>
it's got a computer, it'll be the computer that's faulty, that's expensive<br>
and needs dealer tools". Does it hell, it needs a set of tyres put on, you<br>
lazy tit.<br>
<br>
If you see a modernish synth with a fault, it's going to be the power supply<br>
or one of the much-maligned 405x MUXes. The closest I've got to a faulty<br>
microcontroller in a synth is doing the DSP in MS2000s - funny I've never<br>
seen a Microkorg with a dead DSP!<br>
<br>
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Gordonjcp<br>
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