I've got a new (to me) MKS-80 Super Jupiter that seems to be working at about 75% right now. The upper voice board has a problem with voice C's PWM, on both VCO's, that I've traced to a bad inverting input on a TL064CN. There's audible PWM that looks like a negative- going DC ramp on the scope (measured at the opamp input, and directly out of the S/H on all four channels). The output of the opamp is wired directly to the inverting input of that opamp, which should cause a phase cancellation. Since the inverting input is not working, I wind up with audible modulation on the PW at higher PW settings. The lower voice board is also missing PW control on voice C. The culprit there looks to be the 4051, as far as I can tell. If I jumper the voice D PWM output of the S/H to voice C's output, I regain control over voice C's PWM. That leads me to believe that the opamp path on this board is good, and the S/H is bad. Here's the question - the MKS-80 voice board design holds four voices on a single board, which all share common parameters. Since the PWM setting for all VCO's is the same reference voltage from the DAC (albeit fed into separate channels of the 4051), is there any reason why I couldn't simply tack a jumper onto another output channel of the 4051 that sources PWM for this board and feed the separate opamp stages from that? Each VCO has a trim pot for PW offset, so assuming that I'm not too close to either extreme, I should be able to calibrate the PW on both voices. I'd prefer to swap the IC, as I'm going to do on the upper board, but it's nice to have a backup in case the proper IC takes too long to find. Thanks, Adam
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Grumpy Roland MKS-80
2006-05-17 by asemcken
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