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Re: Roland D5 top 5 keys gone

2008-07-15 by aent440

Hi, the mystery is over, the keyboard flexible PCB (and much of the galvanised chassis) had been corroded by cat urine! I was able to bypass the corroded

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sequential drumtraks

2008-07-14 by steve sloan

Wondering if anyone might have ideas on this: A Drumtraks I ve inherited works fine [all sounds trigger, etc] except there is no kick drum. I ve tried

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Re: Roland D5 top 5 keys gone

2008-07-14 by aent440

Hi Fran, Thanks for the quick reply. I think I am going to have to bite the bullet and strip out those offending keys to check that region out. Cheers, Andrew.

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Re: Roland D5 top 5 keys gone

2008-07-14 by narfman96

Andrew, The D5 has a membrane style plastic film for key contacts. Have you checked for dirt and/or corrosion between the film layers? I can look at the D5 in

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Roland D5 top 5 keys gone

2008-07-14 by aent440

Hi, the top 5 keys (intermittently) fail to sound on my D5. I can always see a time multiplexed signal for each key on the main board and can just about see a

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Burr Brown PCM55HP needed?

2008-07-13 by narfman96

I have a Kawai K5 and one DAC has a distorted output that s 4 to 5 times as loud as the other channel. The sound is analog. By adjusting all the patch

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Re: Seeking Arp Odyssey v3 key

2008-07-10 by bazricles

Hi Malte, That s awsome, thanks so much. I ll email you privately about this. Cheers! Barry ... carcass ... components from ... way to ... why you

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Re: Seeking Arp Odyssey v3 key

2008-07-10 by bazricles

Hi Martin, Thanks for the offer! Unfortunately I m pretty sure the minimoog keys won t fit. The v3 Odyssey has quite a strange keyshape due to their

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Re: Seeking Arp Odyssey v3 key

2008-07-10 by martinreuter

... Hi Barry, I have some Minimoog keys. I think that the old moog has the same keys, but I am not sure. Are your keys really white ore do they have a touch of

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Seeking Arp Odyssey v3 key

2008-07-10 by bazricles

First of all, a big hello to everyone on this board! I m currently attempting my first synth restoration; a late version Arp Odyssey. So far, I ve managed to

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Board 1 works again!

2008-07-05 by martinreuter

Thank You all!!!! I changed the ICs + the OpAmps of the oscillator board and now it runs. Now i have to repair my 2nd board1 - all oscillators are working, bit

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Re: SH-101

2008-07-05 by eggwheatis

... Just to add to the diagnosis...I have another SH-101 so I tested playing the bad one using CV and Gate out of the good one. It still pays an octave too

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SH-101

2008-07-04 by eggwheatis

Ok here s one for you...just picked up an SH-101..it s playing an octave higher than it should...not looked at much yet. Any ideas? The range and the octave

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Re: Broken keyboard PCB traces

2008-06-25 by inocencio66

The later replies have been apreciated, but the problem is fixed since my post #3854. I used a Stanley knife and wirewrap wire. The upper tracks (by the carbon

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Re: Moog Opus 3 Filter Section

2008-06-24 by cea_six

i found out that on my keyboard i had the preset/variable switch broken off and was in the preset mode. so the filer section does work it just needed to be

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Hello

2008-06-24 by David

Hi I don’t remember the yahoo group and the VERY NICE guy who said to me to put down the contrast level on my k2500R for solution to my problem (sometimes I

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Re: Broken keyboard PCB traces

2008-06-24 by jahg88

... near ... copper ... there´s ... connector ... new ... bond ... any ... Just use a sharp X-acto blade a carefully scrape tha solder mask of down to the

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P10 Sequencer

2008-06-23 by fsimon100

My P10 has a single 4Kx8 EPROM that operates off 5v only and my schematic show three 2708 EPROMs 1Kx8 that run +12,+5, and -5. Does anyone know the firmware

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Moog Source mods/sync

2008-06-22 by Philip

Hi, decided to dig my Moog Source out and get it fixed..wow..forgotten how good it sounds! Had a read up on it on the net and discovered there were two

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Re: Korg Delta Strings Only Issue

2008-06-22 by thirteentech

I think I have repaired one of the 3 deltas that have come into the workshop with the synth section dropping out. I will have to let it run for a few hours to

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Re: ARP odyssey noise generator?

2008-06-13 by Johnny

i forgot to mention it s the MK 1. i already have the zeners for the mk 2 mod but i don t think i can make that mod on the mk 1. thanks anyway, johnny ... that

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Re: ARP odyssey noise generator?

2008-06-13 by balderson04

This might help: http://www.arpodyssey.com/odynois.gif This is basically the MkII+ noise circuit, or so I understand. Not sure how easy zener diodes are to

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Re: ARP odyssey noise generator?

2008-06-12 by Johnny

neither are noise . the pink noise is just a slightly different tone of the weird waveform i mentioned before. i messed around a little bit circuit

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Re: ARP odyssey noise generator?

2008-06-12 by balderson04

Hi, Johnny: The service manual s description of the noise circuit mentions that Q9 is specially chosen for optimum avalanche characteristics , so it may be

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