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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Ensoniq VFX- keyboard calibration

2010-03-30 by Malte Rogacki

At 23:21 Uhr +0200 30.03.2010, eons wrote:
> Anyone knows of any known issues with the ICs on the board under the
>keyboard?
> Maybe a thermally faulty IC?
> Have seen to possibe dry joints.
> Any help please, suggestions?


If you have dry joints perhaps oiling them will help?

OK, kidding aside. You probably meant cold solder joints. I seem to recall
that certain older Ensoniq keyboards were plagued by a faulty connector.

A visit to Google gives me this:

http://www.mcwest.org/~mccreary/vfx/#kbd_fix


This sounds as if it could be the source of your problem as well.

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