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2005-10-14 by Christos Panagiotakis
I opened it today, took the board out and looked near the battery but I didn t find any corrosion neither on top nor on the bottom of the board.Just a little
2005-10-14 by Christos Panagiotakis
I opened it today, took the board out and looked near the battery but I didn t find any corrosion neither on top nor on the bottom of the board.Just a little
2005-10-14 by Christos Panagiotakis
I opened it today, took the board out and looked near the battery but I didn t find any corrosion neither on top nor on the bottom of the board.Just a little
2005-10-14 by gil_we
First thing to do it opening it up and see if it *is* a battery issue. ... for years and emitting corrosive gas into the circuitry of the machine. Open it up
2005-10-14 by Travis Shire
It doesn t work because the battery for memory backup has been dead for years and emitting corrosive gas into the circuitry of the machine. Open it up and look
2005-10-13 by cool_blue@f-m.fm
Could it be the patches just need to be reloaded ?
2005-10-13 by brightoutside
All the keys are dead.I can t select any patch.Basically you can t do anything, it is jammed.I push the small buttons for example dco, lfo and they don t even
2005-10-13 by Emile Gauthier
hi brighty... are you familiar with the synth theory ? maybe its just an enveloppe that is activated or the VCA that is turned off, check all of your settings
2005-10-13 by gil_we
1. Is the sound played the same sound as on the patch you select ? 2. Do all other functions work ? i.e can you change presets, write, change parameters ? 3.
2005-10-13 by brightoutside
Hi all! I m new to the kawai sx210 and I m not a technician either..The problem is that I live in Greece and there is not a single place to get any analog
2005-10-06 by texhand
... I can get a fair frankenstien out of my sx 210. I really love the rockers, with advnce by 10. The sx240 has the disadvantage of arrow scroll to
2005-10-05 by Travis Shire
Just a note here about that song, Billy Thorpe was the artist. Also, the middle section in Edgar Winter s Frankenstien should be pretty easy providing you
2005-10-05 by texhand
... Listen to the beginning of children of the sun all analog No file sharing here, and it probably would not be played like the original programmer
2005-10-04 by donna_honeyman
Hi group: I m new here and wanted to find out if any of you knew of any cool sounds to program manually, my boyfriend recently obtained a SX240 in exellent
2005-10-03 by Travis Shire
... From: gil_we To: kawai_sx210@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kawai_sx210] Re: Can anybody please help??? Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:42:55 -0000 ... It powers up
2005-10-03 by gil_we
What is the problem on the Akai ? ... it and ... off the ... mallet and ... battery ... out of ... years and ... point of ... one end ... insulation). ... bd
2005-10-03 by Travis Shire
Just another note here....don t worry about the contents of the eprom. If it was bad, the machine would do nothing at all because the cpu would be in constant
2005-10-03 by Travis Shire
Check *ALL* of the interconnects. My 240 did this when I first got it and I reseated the wires in all the IDC ribbon cables. Take the cable off the board and
2005-10-02 by gil_we
It might be that as long as you don t change keys the assigner doen t change the assignment... you ll have to check with an audio probe which is the actual
2005-10-02 by Mark Daborn
Hi again! Since my friend and i had a poke around, the behaviour is slightly more predictable. Basically the problem is this: in poly 8 mode (playing up the
2005-10-02 by gil_we
Can you describe the problem again ? As far as I understand the problem is dead tones - which doesn t come up at all when in Poly 8 mode (all keys respond and
2005-10-02 by Mark Daborn
Hi, as this whole problem with my machine is due to battery leakage, i have already removed the nasty old Ni-Cad and replaced it. Ic s 7 and 8 have been
2005-10-01 by gil_we
http://www.oldcrows.net/~oldcrow/synth/korg/polysix/repair.html ... probing as much as we could. ... have reason to doubt the contents of the EPROM. ... one? I
2005-10-01 by gil_we
Did you read my last response ? Are you rewiring the board ? did you replace all components at the battery area ? The behavious could be due to a defected
2005-10-01 by Mark Daborn
Hi, The restoration of my SX-210 continues furiously. Today my techie friend and i had the thing in bits testing and probing as much as we could. We eliminated
2005-09-29 by Mark Daborn
Hi, Since my last post, the SX-210 has sat gathering dust in a vacant room at work awaiting the skilled hands of my electronic engineer colleague. I have,
2005-09-29 by Travis Shire
The Native Instruments Pro-53 (prophet emulator) is a great sounding softsynth, as is the B4 (hammond emu). I tried a demo version of the minimoog V and never
2005-09-29 by texhand
... That is right. I know you meant, the real cheezy ones. I would like a bargin on an alesis micron. I may like it or may not, but the features seem like alot
2005-09-28 by gil_we
I repaired my SX210 (battery leakage) by actually cutting off ALL the traces, ICs and other components at the leakage affected area, and rebuilding it by
2005-09-28 by gil_we
I bought an Oberheim 6R for 75$ a few months ago... went to burn a rom IC for my Trident s MIDI converter circuit and there it was. The guy at the shop didn t
2005-09-28 by Travis Shire
Oh, I wasn t saying *all* Casios are junk, just most of them as they were consumer machines. I almost bought a CZ-1 at a pawn shop for $130.00 just to use as
2005-09-28 by texhand
... Wonderful find, but you hurt my feelings!! If you come across a casio mz2000, you may pass up the best keyboard made, for making music.
2005-09-28 by texhand
... This reminds me of my sx 240. I had a short somewhere. I went from no sound to random jumping lights. I never isolated the short, but with a few pieces of
2005-09-28 by boardjunkie1
Doing my usual thrift store rounds today I saw something in the distance that I thought was another Casio piece of crap and when I got closer discovered it was
2005-09-19 by texhand
sounds like a good idea. I use an digiteck rp-6 for effects on my 210 and love the results. I think a harmonizer would be great , but the $$.
2005-09-15 by boardjunkie1
I ve had this idea floating around in my head for some time now and finally got around to trying it. I was thinking that using the harmonizer in my old
2005-09-10 by gil_we
Best thing is to create your own sounds, if you re a synth users and do not really use it to learn keyboard playing ;) But anyhow, you can upload presets
2005-09-09 by gil_we
It seems it is working ok now. I found there was a bad contact somewhere as all the sympthoms mentioned occured also when rotating the unit, as I later found.
2005-09-09 by corbin71m
I just dusted off my wife s old sx240 for the kids to start learning on but the sound files have been lost from memory. Is there a good place to find some
2005-09-06 by gil_we
Both volatges were measured while the PS is disconnected from the rest of the unit... What could cause them to be a little down ? There is no VR for voltage
2005-09-03 by Travis Shire
4.85v seems a little low for the 5v rail. Something may be dragging it down. Here s a link to what I believe is the service manual....
2005-09-02 by gil_we
Hi all, My Roland MKS-70 suddently started to behave strange. These are the synpthoms: 1. Most of the times (but not always), in addition to the correct preset
2005-08-29 by texhand
... I just use a korg sample trax. Sample, resample, effects, loops easily, syncs, and has midi. Fat tb303 with effects!!
2005-08-24 by gil_we
There should be an easy way to set up a MIDI in device for it. Built two MIDI INs one for my (sold) Polysix and one for my (existing) Trident MKII. Both
2005-08-20 by texhand
modern beats, require big hands Holding down lof Off switch and releasing , in rythm causes advance by factor of ten, vca etc with dial playing keys, working
2005-07-07 by texhand
... Sure;; the photo section has a pic of my sx240 battery before i removed it. I will do more with the sx210. ... cassette ... close ... patches ... Forge,
2005-07-07 by esasafrazz@fastmail.fm
Please post some pictures of this if you can.
2005-07-07 by texhand
-- Thank you: I retried my 4 tract with cranked up levels,, and finally save, verify and load with an OK . Now I can cut the old battery out, run wires to the
2005-07-07 by gil_we
Thanks, the guy who own the synth has finally decided to get it back, so I didn t have the chnace to do that finally. ... resoldered ... found the ...
2005-07-07 by gil_we
On my Trident MKII, the 7th oscillaor takes time to get in tune. Actually, the first few minutes it rises up slowly, to a much higher tune than the general