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Subject: Super wasted P6

From: Fredrik Stolpe <fredrik.stolpe@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-03-06

Hello group

First off, I must say this is a great group. Very alive, and lot's of skilled people. Great to see people taking care of this dear old synth.

I have a fully working P6. But the other day I helped a friend mine to remove the battery and acid to prevent his P6 from becoming more wasted.

Almost nothing is on his synth works. There is sound, you can play the keyboard, but it sounds like a broken toy piano. All the preset buttons are constantly lit, none of the knobs do anything. The arpeggio is actually working.

So I have 2 questions:

Could all this be because of the damaged KLM-367 board? I mean ok, that you cannot save patches, but this total superweirdness, is it only due to this board? Would a new/fixed board likely fix all the problems?

Can you bypass the KLM-367? If you don't want to save patches, and can live without effects? As an alterntive to either spending time and money on repairs or to put it in the trash bin. Or is it central to the functionality?

Regards
Fredrik