Ashe37 wrote:ok, so it has two boards for the KB and they have not been bridged. I'm wondering if you've just run into the infamous VFX keyboard issue... I'd ask Rhino.

Look carefully at my second and third photos. There's a ribbon cable soldered to points on each of the coil boards. No issues there.

Sigh. I reassembled the keyboard and put it back into the SD1. No change, the original problem still exists. At least I didn't screw anything else up and the keys and coil boards are clean again....

OK, I finally had the opportunity this afternoon to set up a table and take the SD1's keybed out for a look. Following instructions I found in several online sources it was relatively simple to extract the keybed and remove keys. Let's see what I found. Here's the top of the coil boards under the ke...

Ashe37 wrote:probably need to take the keyboard apart and clean it. also possible that one of the metal panels on the keys has popped off.

That's going to be my first task in the repair process as soon as I can clear a good chunk of a day to work on it.

Good evening, VSE! I'm having a problem with my trusty Ensoniq SD1. When I play individual sounds in sound mode, they play with aftertouch or pressure (in Ensoniq-speak) full on. The effect is most commonly volume, vibrato or filtering. Here's where things get weird. If I press the footswitch down (...

www.syntaur.com and https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/info

Stab Frenzy wrote:Everyone always assumes it's a bad volume pot and it's always the output transistors.

In my case, replacing the volume pot cured the high-frequency noise and low volume. However, my output transistors have finally failed and I have almost no volume. Yeesh...

zmd wrote:Pro5, the transistor output issue you mentioned...is that what causes low output and high frequency noise on the main outs and headphone outs?

The problem you are stating could be the result of a bad volume pot.

Okay, somebody get me a release date for this. I have to know how long before I can own one. And this had better not be a boutique limited-edition thing. This is a limited run during Moogfest. An email from Moog said "the pilot-production units built during the festival will only be available for p...

XP60 patches are compatible with the JV1080 so they will play just fine. I'm not completely familiar with the transfer process but some form of Utility Mode would do it.

You should be able to do that. Look in the Utility Mode menu. Check your manuals for the proper procedure.

I was lucky enough to be at Madison Square Garden in 78 when Peter Gabriel came out for the encore ("I Know What I Like"). Of course, half of the crowd didn't even know who it was until the end when Phil introduced him! I was at that show, too. We figured it out but PG was singing on the same mic a...

From Armando Gallo's book Genesis: I Know What I Like, Tony Banks used the following on the tour that supported "...and then there were three":

• Hammond T102 organ
  Mellotron 400S
  ARP 2600 synthesizer
  Moog Polymoog synthesizer
  Yamaha CP70 grand piano

Almost forgot Hero & Heroin by the Strawbs.