Elektron Musical Instruments

On May 26, 2004, at 11:10 PM, Gene Schwartz wrote:

> I glanced over at my Machinedrum, and I noticed that one of the knobs 
> had
>  somehow broken clean off.

what do you mean by this? do you mean that the knob came off of the 
encoder or
that the encoder itself broke (snapped)?  I don't see how you can do 
the latter
without realizing it (and the former is kind of difficult in the first 
place).

I wouldn't try messing with it too much, you could screw it up worse 
trying to
remove the glue. Elektron has these encoders custom made and to my 
knowledge
there are no others like them. so I doubt you'll find new ones unless 
you go through
them. so there's two options:
1) contact Elektron and see if they'll okay you to repair your machine 
(if it's
still under warranty) and send you the part, though I wouldn't count on 
this
happening
2) send it in for repair (there's a facility in LA now; and I think 
you're in the
states, right?)

good luck!
Joe