Rc,
Glad to see you went as far as possible with the overhaul/cleanup. Takes a lotta guts for many musicians to do the maintenance on their machines. I remember getting my clarinet in 3rd grade. The first thing they taught you was how to properly remove it from the case, grease the cork that holds the sections together, properly wet, mount, tighten and adjust the reed. That’s just how a clarinet works and if you wanted to learn to play one you had to learn basic maintenance. I mean, crap I was 10 years old. Now it’s guitarists and drummers who have to mess around with a lot of hardware regularly but (bomb me if you want for this) keyboardists can be some of the laziest, mechanically inept musicians. A few recent groups I’ve played in had synth players that literally only knew how to get like 4 sounds out of the thing and regarded all the buttons and such as clutter. Just wanted to play piano/organ/strings even though they bought some workstation type beast with 10000 factory patches and touch screen programming, sequencer, etc.
I hope that the overhaul cleaning and reseating restores your ribbon controller. They are unavailable from Yamaha if broken (at least in the US and Europe when I checked about 8 years ago). I didn’t want to give you this bad news on my original post. I’ve been just lurking for a few years due to health issues but you can ask Jon (our moderator) how active I was in the past. Jon even organized a few get together lunches in the DC suburbs back in the early 2000s where we exchanged floppies(!) and ideas.
Ed²
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AN1x-list@yahoogroups.comSubject: [AN1x] Re: Aftertouch issue (and greetings)
"KurtF" wrote:
> There is a sort of more modern equivalent in the Novation X-Station with its XY pad. While it may not have all the sound capabilities of the AN1X, it does have some punch and a wealth of controls, and is a MIDI controller. Perhaps connecting an X-Station 25 to the AN1X would provide a latitude of control that may be missing from the AN1X's own panel. Or a Novation Remote SL which is similar but without the built in KS synthesizer.
Thanks for the suggestion. That's a nice looking controller.
Got my courage up, finally did battery and other surgery on the thing, just got done.
Pulled and did some cleaning on the pitch and mod wheels, they look new now, vacuumed out all dust devils, cleaned the back inside, reseated whatever would budge, hopefully didn't break any that wouldn't.
I pulled the ribbon controller, cleaned that off all around, reseated it, and zipped it all back up (no more dust surrounding that, looks new-ish), then cleaned the keyboard as best I could...a full teardown didn't seem advisable or needed. It's now a lot cleaner, but I think still has some kind of odor to it. Not sure if is from old soap, or the bubble wrap was smokey, or it's ganja residue in the dust from some prior owner that perked back up once the southern humidity got to it while cooped up during shipping in the truck.
Also pulled all knobs, cleaned and vacuumed out dust behind.
Ribbon controller X axis is reliably better now, Z pressure might be too...have to do more testing. I had unseated and re-attached the 5 band ribbon connector, and also the multi-connector on that board as well.
Old battery was 2.89 volts still, higher than I expected given the age. Got the new one at Target, only $4.50 or so. CR2450 Energizer, 2020 date.
rc
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