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Re: [PolySix] What is likely to cause pitch drifts ?

2004-03-14 by Stefan Rinass

Ah, at the bottem of the Service manual is the Adjustment procedure. 
Didn\ufffdt saw that.

Stef

Stefan Rinass wrote:

>Hi,
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>don\ufffdt know the MS-10 but maybe it\ufffds the failure of a dry capacitor which 
>is connected between ground and +vcc. Afaik has the MS10 a CV out 
>connector at the front panel which must be (in my opinion) directly 
>connected to the resistor ladder of the Keyboard circuit. Did you 
>measure this connector already while pressing one key twice (in order to 
>find out if the CV actually changes)?
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>Or you should take a look into the Service manual (including circuit 
>diagram)
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>http://www.phasereffect.com/pub/ms10.pdf        (880 kb)
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>Stef
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>Pure speculations.
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>Stef
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>>I own a vintage (70s) Korg MS-10. This little bastard works great 
>>excapt for casual pitch drifts. Sometimes it doesn't play the exact 
>>pitch when hitting a key, than hitting it once more will make the 
>>accurate pitch sound. This will also happen when using some "gilde", 
>>than when gliding to a note sometimes it won't target to the exact 
>>pitch...
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>>Should I change all electrolytics ? how about ICs ? Which section 
>>shuold I look at ? VCA ? VCO ?
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>>Thanks
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>>PolySix "Digiest" Page: http://www.acc.umu.se/~amber/Poly6 
>>Yahoo! Groups Links
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>PolySix "Digiest" Page: http://www.acc.umu.se/~amber/Poly6 
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