chroma polaris in the shop
2012-09-04 by Paul
Hi all
Love my chroma polaris. It's maybe the third I've had. Recently replaced the panels and put a new battery in. I had been away touring for some time and what used to be a perfectly working synth had a few issues. While the new membrane panels seem good, I noticed that when playing the synth all sounds sort of just cut off at the end. Weird. Wasn't sure if this was hardware failure or a calibration that needed to be performed. So, since some of this gets out of my comfort zone I dropped it off to the local repair shop. Good folks there.
They have switched out a few caps as well. I am shooting for using this opportunity to do any sorts of maintenance or whatnot a synth of this age might benefit from so that it will work perfectly for the foreseeable future and sound it's best. Not shooting for exotic upgrades or tweaks per se, but at least bread and butter maintenance.
If there is anything I should direct the tech folks to look at or address while its at the shop, well now is the most convenient time.
If the idea that this seems to work fine all around as a synth, but when playing sounds they just cut off at the end, and alternate notes on the keyboard seem to sound different - some some doubled up in voices and some sound like single voices - feel free to direct me as to where to look. Not sure if that sounds like any particular hardware failure or just an incomplete or incorrect calibration.
Really have it in mind to get composing again and I've been having all my synths gone over. I really want this one in top shape. Any input most welcome.
Love my chroma polaris. It's maybe the third I've had. Recently replaced the panels and put a new battery in. I had been away touring for some time and what used to be a perfectly working synth had a few issues. While the new membrane panels seem good, I noticed that when playing the synth all sounds sort of just cut off at the end. Weird. Wasn't sure if this was hardware failure or a calibration that needed to be performed. So, since some of this gets out of my comfort zone I dropped it off to the local repair shop. Good folks there.
They have switched out a few caps as well. I am shooting for using this opportunity to do any sorts of maintenance or whatnot a synth of this age might benefit from so that it will work perfectly for the foreseeable future and sound it's best. Not shooting for exotic upgrades or tweaks per se, but at least bread and butter maintenance.
If there is anything I should direct the tech folks to look at or address while its at the shop, well now is the most convenient time.
If the idea that this seems to work fine all around as a synth, but when playing sounds they just cut off at the end, and alternate notes on the keyboard seem to sound different - some some doubled up in voices and some sound like single voices - feel free to direct me as to where to look. Not sure if that sounds like any particular hardware failure or just an incomplete or incorrect calibration.
Really have it in mind to get composing again and I've been having all my synths gone over. I really want this one in top shape. Any input most welcome.