Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

On 14 Jul 2006, at 14:52, Niels Ott wrote:

> Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
>> I swapped the 371 etc. boards over in the hope that it might be  
>> that, and of course, put
>> the working filter chip in the other keyboard. I think the fault  
>> must lie within the 367A
>> board, but the battery (blue) doesn't appear to have leaked.
>
> But is it still working?
>
> My Trident MK2 refused to work without a proper battery.

I'm getting a reading of 3.6V on the blue battery, 3.99 on the one  
with green battery (which I now can't remember if I posted before or  
after, but what I did today was swap the assigner/voice board over  
and put the 8302 dated SSM2056 I'd nicked from blue battery back onto  
the board it came from - so they're all matched). So now blue battery  
has a board with older SSM chips (well, one is a newer one), a patch  
assigner board I am pretty sure is failing in some way (now the 366B?  
boards have been swapped too and worked the same in either), and  
green battery is working pretty much as I'd expect beyond the tuning  
'warming up'.

I've now swapped parts over so often including feet that I've  
forgotten which was the better keyboard in the first place! But green  
battery is currently getting to hang out in the studio, hooked up to  
the Sequential Drumtraks' metronome output (the drums seem too weak  
to trigger the arp and the clock output is just nuts). I think I'm  
going to have to decide one is for spares; good keyboard, below  
average case, slight bend in the 371 board, all pots working well,  
both have had the wheels stripped, cleaned and rebuilt and keyboards  
too, but blue battery needs a battery, a voice chip and ???? repairs  
to the patch assigner at best. Oh, and feet. I don't know why only  
one had feet.

Richard

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