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- Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:57 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Prophet 5 Rev 3.2 S/H Issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9064
Re: Prophet 5 Rev 3.2 S/H Issue
Good job on the repair. FYI, your method of testing the capacitor didn't actually tell you the capacitor was OK. It measured capacitance, but not leakage current, which is the critical property of the cap in this application. Film caps, including the polystyrene are more likely to fail by developing...
- Sat Nov 13, 2021 5:19 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Arp Odyssey 2800 Switch
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8566
Re: Arp Odyssey 2800 Switch
The slide switches, octave transpose switch, or a power switch? If the slide switches, I have a couple original ones left:
https://synthchaser.com/product/origina ... de-switch/
https://synthchaser.com/product/origina ... de-switch/
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:01 pm
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Six-Trak keeps hanging on boot
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11924
Re: Six-Trak keeps hanging on boot
Besides the reset line going high the CPU also needs a working clock signal to execute instructions.
- Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:53 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Roland CR78 drum machine ..Help needed !
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9280
Re: Roland CR78 drum machine ..Help needed !
Ditto to inspecting the board for damage (battery leakage) first, particularly on this machine. If it looks OK, I have a few videos on my youtube channel showing how I go about troubleshooting dead drum machines (all lights on and nobody home is typical of a non-running microprocessor)
- Thu May 27, 2021 12:10 am
- Forum: General Synthesizers
- Topic: Polymoog Keyboard - what next?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8117
Re: Polymoog Keyboard - what next?
Yeah, Im really not keen on the idea of parting it out. As a matter of fact, I'm sorely tempted to press on and get the divider board back into working order. But in the end I know I won't be able to give this instrument the home it deserves, so it will have to be moved on sooner or later. And how ...
- Tue May 11, 2021 4:53 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Prophet 600 Voice textures changing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6542
Re: Prophet 600 Voice textures changing
Sounds like calibration differences between or mismatched voice chips.
- Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:19 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Chroma Polaris
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3237
Re: Chroma Polaris
I wish I had buddies that gave me broken gear. Mine always ask me to fix their broken gear.
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:16 pm
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Polysix - EG int and effect speed issues
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3647
Re: Polysix - EG int and effect speed issues
Perhaps a bad 4051 pot multiplexer on the KLM-369 board?
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:14 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Korg Poly 61 - Some Keys Produce Out of Tune Notes.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6818
Re: Korg Poly 61 - Some Keys Produce Out of Tune Notes.
Sounds like a stuck data bit or bits going to the DAC (which in this case is just fixed resistors). I'd check the buffers (inverters) on the data bus ahead of it with a logic probe or scope. IC18 & IC21.
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:54 pm
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Roland Juno 106 panel slider replacement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3593
Re: Roland Juno 106 panel slider replacement
Google "how does a voltage divider work" and you'll see why it doesn't matter if the pots aren't exactly the same values, or if they are replaced with different ones.
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 3:11 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 70645
Re: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
Yeah, you'll need a 2732 EPROM. Each manufacturer had their own prefixes and most of the time, the only differences were the programming voltages. So you just need to find a chip that your EPROM programmer is compatible with... Then maybe download the datasheet for it and compare the pinout to the O...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 7:08 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 70645
Re: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
Sounds like you just need to burn an EPROM and you're good to go!
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:14 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 70645
Re: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
It's been a while since I worked on one with JL Cooper MIDI, but to revert to stock most likely all you need to do is: 1. Unplug the daughterboard from the main board (I think 2 ribbon cables? 1 into processor socket as pictured and probably another into a DIP-14 socket which was for a CD4011) 2. Tr...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 3:03 am
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 70645
Re: Getting my OBXa going... help with removing JL Cooper midi kit!
There are a bunch of chips (the ones you listed included) that were on earlier revisions of the main board, but were removed by your revision.
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:03 pm
- Forum: HELP!
- Topic: Prophet 600 Note Triggering Issue
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4119
Re: Prophet 600 Note Triggering Issue
I think I may have showed this in one of my Prophet 5 repair videos, but a good reason is if the oscillator isn't stable, and it comes in and out of tune. Find the oscillator in question and attach a scope to the CEM3340 chip and you'll get to the bottom of it very quickly.