Yes the notes play every other... Can you please clarify? Every other note plays? So, for example, C plays, C# doesn't, D plays, etc? Or you have to strike a note twice for it to play? If you put it in unison mode (press Poly1+Poly2 together) do all the keys work? Have you tried controlling it from...

What is the problem you're having with it?

When you said "keypad" did you mean "keybed"?

Do certain notes not play consistently? The keybed may need to be disassembled and the membrane pads cleaned.

Well, it ended...did someone here win it?

I'd love to read the restoration thread!

There is no P'08 PE module that I'm aware, yet.

I'm sure it'll come, especially if enough people jump on the P'08 PE keyboard, and/or upgrade their non-PE P'08s.

DSI does offer an upgrade to the PE edition for the P'08.

See here: http://store.davesmithinstruments.com/p ... php?cat=13

They offer a DIY kit and also a factory-installed kit.

EDIT: organsymphony beat me to it...

Nice demos pflosi! Here's a couple patches I made last summer: This one I call Arppy Pad. It uses filter 1 for the main sweep and an arp (created by the sequencer) plays filter 2 in self-oscillation. The ribbon causes one oscillator's pitch to bend. http://www.patzcatz.com/mp3/andy_pad.mp3 I call th...

It would be a cool project synth. If it once worked and sounded like a Taurus, some restoration work and one could have a Taurus clone on the cheap.

If it didn't work (e.g. design issues), it could be used for parts, or rebuilt into a Taurus clone or some other mono synth.

pricklyrobot wrote:Yeah, the 600 does it; weird that the 5 wouldn't.

Well, the 5 was SCI's first microprocessor-controlled poly, and it used a slow Z80 CPU.

I don't know what the P600 uses, but being a later vintage it probably had a faster CPU, or better coding of the firmware to allow for poly portamento.

StepLogik wrote:

Christopher Winkels wrote: I had to laugh at the potential buyer's question about whether it has MIDI though.

yeah i got quite a chuckle out of that as well.

It's funny but it is a legitimate question... a home-built synth could have midi, especially when it has a micro on board.

I figured all the Jupiters did. ... just about any VA in existence... But this statement seems a little odd to me (I assume that "VA" means Vintage Analog). I have 5 vintage polysynths: Jupiter 4, Prophet 5, Polysix, Poly800MKII and a Juno 60 and only the JP-4 has poly-glide. Is it a feature that's...

Wow, I'm half tempted to bid on it just to have the parts... I could use them to build a Moog Taurus clone!

All the Jupiters... Juno-106... OB-8 and I believe the OB-X and Xa too... Andromeda... Prophet '08... just about any VA in existence... There's lots of them out there. Now as for how well poly portamento is implemented... some synths use round-robin voice allocation which doesn't lend itself well to...

It should be no problem at all, as long as it's protected from humidity, moisture, etc.

I wouldn't store it upside down, but on the side should be no problem.

Usually components marked "L#" on boards are inductors or chokes. The "470K" means it's a 47 uH inductor. The "K" means it has a 10% tolerance. Inductors rarely fail; check them with an ohmmeter to make sure they aren't open. Try the PSU with it disconnected from the rest of the synth. See if it sta...

The Voyager and OS use the same voice architecture/components and probably boards so from a raw sound perspective, they (should) sound more or less the same. The difference is where the control voltages come from. The Voyager has a CPU that generates the control voltages based on the patch memories ...