Wow! That is terrible! I'm always paranoid about attempting projects like this, and your story doesn't do much to lessen my fears. I'm very sorry to hear about your predicament. Hopefully it can be salvaged. (Thanks for the warning to the rest of us by the way!)

Surprisingly, there's actually quite a lot that can be coaxed from some of these older keyboards.

I remember back in the early '90's reading in Keyboard Magazine about how to use the built-in "Chorus" effect on the Roland D-50 synthesizer to emulate the "speeding-up and slowing-down" of a rotating Leslie Speaker on Hammond B-3 sounds, (in order to make them sound more believable.) The original i...

skunk3 wrote:I had a CZ-3000 for a while and it was pretty decent. I'd still much rather have something like a SY-77 though.

Well nobody said that it had to be either or! (I mean...the more synths, the better...right?)

I had a CZ-1 which I sold, (and immediately regretted doing so), about 10 years ago. I just bought a CZ-3000 off of e-Bay earlier today which should be here sometime next week, and I'm really excited about it. I've always had a soft-spot in my heart for the CZ line I guess, and I can't wait to start...

vcs3 wrote:Can you show us a photo?

I'd be curious to see it too, if that's possible.