I think I'll come back when I have the synth in-hand in a couple months. I could just buy a step-down converter and measure what's coming into the power supply board from the transformer to see exactly what I need.

Thanks for the help so far, folks!

Great, thanks. I've brought several synths back to life and fixed a few for friends, but these were generally button replacements, dead parts swaps, recaps from kits, that kind of thing. I'm terrified of mains, which is why I haven't touched anything dealing with it, but I've heard that's the best m...

Just curious if it is preferable to physically convert imported synths to handle 120v 60hz by replacing the transformer, how one would go about finding one that works best, and if it really matters which one you decide to get, so long as the input voltage is 120v 60hz and the output is the same as t...

Looks like a dead/misfiring CPU to me. I'm not sure what else it would be... I'd caution against swapping it, what caused yours to fail might cause a new one to fail as well. Unfortunately, I have one extra but it is also dead (a swap to the quicksilver 606 CPU and recapping the power supply fixed m...

After having a lot of problems with my DW-8000, I switched to the EX. Sad to hear these are riddled with similar problems, but at the very least they don't take up a huge amount of space with a clacky keyboard. Switch repair is very annoying, if you find the actual part number, I'd be happy to know ...

I'd probably agree with you about the JD/DW comparison. I'm not looking to get rid of anything, especially since most of the 'signature sounds' I used for the first album were pretty DW-centric. the JD is most definitely the next synth on my list to buy, I am a huge fan of complex pads, which the JD...

There isn't a waveform for that... Although the patch set I loaded it with had three really good choir patches that I used to death for my first tape, but I wasn't really able to get much variation from them. My "knob-twiddlings" all seemed to either sound the same or end up not sounding like voices...

Wow, Z, thanks for everything this go-round. I'd be lost... ;) I'll check out the Mobius demo as soon as I get home. pflosi: I have been going to school in Washington the past year and the school I'm at has, among other things, a huge euro modular, an ARP 2600, a Moog Voyager, a Buchla 200e and a hu...

It's been a bit, but I haven't abandoned this idea. Seeing as bills have piled up this quarter, a JD seems out of my range, but I happened upon a formant filter/guitar pedal by Electro Harmonix that seems to have enough 'shaping' to turn what I already have into a nasty "Ah" synth. Not interested in...

Personally, I do prefer the JD-800 as I use it as a virtual analog synth even though it is not a true VA since it uses PCM waveforms in its oscillators instead of software algorhythms that emulat analog circuits. The other night after repsondin to your thread, I went into my music room and experime...

Thanks. I would like to just save up, but, being a student, money comes every 4 months, not every 4 weeks ;) The JD-800, as far as I know, has the same synth engine as the D-50? On vintagesynth (here) it says the sounds are modeled after the D-50 but with multimode filters. Is "sounds" in this conte...

I have used a Juno 60 a lot and I ended up buying a Jx3p... You'd find that what most people say about the low-end of the 3p is true, but the 2VCO/voice makes a huge difference. Tuning 2 square waves a 5th step and programming a sequence... It sounds so much bigger than the 60, and it's like there's...

I've become enamored with the late-80s choral presets present on a lot of albums, and was looking for something similar to add to my own setup. For an example, the oft-ignored Kraftwerk Electric Café displays at least 2... What synth are they using? (1986) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Xe4JBq6-E ...

I was also slightly interested in one of these. Although less frequently, I've seen the JX8P and the PG-800 go for about the same as a Juno 6, maybe less, so which would be better? Of course, with the JX8P I could just buy the thing for 300 and worry about the PG-800 later, if I wanted.

Hello! This is my first post here, this looks to be an amazing forum, I'm glad to have found it. My dilemma manly comes from my inability to focus on one particular goal. I want to buy my first 'real' synthesizer. Up until I do, the only 'electronic keyboard instruments' I've had are the pretty simp...