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Voice Problem with my JX-8p

2013-04-22 by blatnik_michael

hello, I have a problem with my jx-8p. i think one of the 6 voices has a problem with osc2. every 6th sound is playing osc1 with the correct vokume, osc2 is

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Roland Saturn SA-09

2013-04-13 by Paul Cunningham

Hello -- Been a little while since I ve had to repair anything, but I ve recently acquired a Roland Saturn SA-09. They look something like this:

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Roland TR707

2013-04-12 by Paulo Palmieri

Hi Nick, I already replaced the 603 transistor in a Juno 106 and i used 2SC1815 as a replacement according the Juno 106 service notes. It works perfectly. And

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Re: Roland TR707

2013-04-12 by alesisfusion8hd

Hi Nick, hard to nail the cause without a good tool. Maybe you should consider building a cheap logic probe: http://www.swansontec.com/sprobe.html Will

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Roland TR707

2013-04-12 by Nick Bell

Hi, I m working on a 707 with no midi out. I suspect Q6 which is a 603 58F - does any one know a suitable replacement & where I might source one? Could be

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E-mu Proteus 2000 cct diag

2013-04-12 by Royce

Any one with any service data on these racks (Proteus 2000, XL1 Turbo, MoPhatt Turbo, Virtuoso 2000 etc) I have intermittent distortion on the main outputs and

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Recapping

2013-04-10 by Hugh Vartanian

Hi Richard, A 50V cap in place of a 35V part will be just fine. I m not sure where I picked up the idea that it wasn t a great idea to use, for example, a 450V

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Recapping

2013-04-10 by Mike Kearney

For recapping tube Hammonds, old tube radios and a Forbes-design tube Theremin I built, I ve had very good luck dealing with http://justradios.com/ There have

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Arp ProSoloist and ProDGX.

2013-04-10 by Jim Blair

I m trying to make some sense of these nice little synths. Info is a bit scarce though. It appears that there were four versions of the Arp Prosoloist. The

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Recapping

2013-04-10 by Richard van der Meer

Thanks Hugh for all this great info. regarding caps if i replace a 35V version with a 50V version (which i have laying around) would that be OK or would it be

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Re: Recapping

2013-04-10 by hughvartanian

The old electrical engineers vote, in agreement with Scott from Ohio, to respect the original design intent and replace the tantalum caps with tantalum caps.

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moog sonic six woes...

2013-04-09 by sinthinoakland

I just bought a sonic six, and when I fired it up, there was a brief moment when all was well and the unit was working, but then it became unresponsive. Upon

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Re: Recapping

2013-04-08 by shupac800

Alexis has it right -- tantalums were used because they pack a lot of capacitance into a very small package. (Low ESR is good too.) Tantalums are used a lot

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Recapping

2013-04-08 by Alexis V. Rogers

I always replace tantalums with electrolytics unless a client asks me to do otherwise. ... I always replace tantalums with electrolytics unless a client asks

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Recapping

2013-04-08 by 65 Lotus

Internally tanatlums look like a sponge where their charging surface area is exposed in 3-dimensions, whereas electrolytics are a couple of wound, flat pieces

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Recapping

2013-04-08 by Daniel Forró

Thanks for your explanation and the link. So can I take it as a rule of thumb and change all tantalum (in PSU, logic circuits or audio circuits) for low ESR

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Recapping

2013-04-08 by Alexis V. Rogers

Tantalums were used due to size and lower ESR. You can get low ESR electrolytics these days. The problem with tantalums is that they close (short) when they

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Force sensor

2013-04-08 by Daniel Forró

Thanks for answer, that gives me some hope. I ve found this one, and only this one, but was not sure if it can be used. I ll give it a try. Daniel Forro

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Force sensor

2013-04-08 by evening1

I have successfully used the 24 FSR strip from interllink technologies as a replacement in a Pro DGX. It;s a few inches longer than needed but there s room to

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Recapping

2013-04-08 by Daniel Forró

As I m working recently on recapping of all my machines older than 20 years, I d like to ask more experienced colleagues here few questions: - In Old Crow s

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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Force sensor

2013-04-08 by Daniel Forró

I m working on the renovation of my Multimoog and ARP Pro Soloist/DGX. Both have not fully working keyboard aftertouch sensor stripe. Does somebody know where

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Re: Juno 106 chips Analogue Renaissance

2013-04-07 by hughvartanian

I rebuilt a 106 recently and cleaned the chips so you needed sunglasses to look at them, even under most all of the IC pins. Still, I had some leakage on a

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Juno 106 chips Analogue Renaissance

2013-04-07 by Nicolas

Hi, I used to order some 80017A chips for the Juno-106 from Analogue Renaissance because they are great and reliable. But recently it seems very difficult to

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Re: ARP whiteface Odyssey filter module

2013-04-05 by alesisfusion8hd

Hi Malte thanks for your advice. Output of the slider seems ok (1.36 V w/ KBD CV way up, LFO & EG down), but input of LM301 still 0. I removed the LM301 from

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