I'm thinking a bad connection between the panel board and the CPU board.

But can you actually lose some voices and not all of them with a worn battery? Sounds unlikely, but I'm not familiar with that synth, so I wouldn't say it's impossible. If you are going to open it up to replace the battery, while you have it open it would be worthwhile to put a scope on the power s...

While we're on the topic: Has anyone ever used, or even seen, that video projector that connects to the V-Synth?

It makes you wonder how the "broken organ" even came to be in the hands of people that call it that. I've heard of it. Say a young guy played in a band in the early '80s, and he had a few analog synths. Then the DX7 came along, and that's the hot new thing. He can't sell the analog synths; nobody w...

StepLogik wrote:it would be a trivial matter to build a site like that using ebay's API's. The problem is the f**k that mislabel their auctions.

JUNO-D VINTAGE SYNTH NOT MOOG OBERHEIM JUPITER ARP

Didn't Ebay crack down on that sort of thing? I haven't seen any like that lately.

killanator wrote: or, as someone here said, sells a tb-303 in a thrift store with a $15 price tag reading "broken radio"

The way I heard that was: ARP 2600 at a yard sale, with a tag reading "Organ, broken. $50"

Fast's first PM was a pre-production model that he aquired in early 1976, almost a year before it was released publically. He used it for the first time on tour with the band Nektar in the spring/summer of '76, then on PG's first album (rec. in autumn '76) as well as on the Synergy album "Cords" (r...

Two years ago, I had figured out my priorities, aside from expanding the modular, were: 1. V-Synth 2. Waldorf Stromborg 3. Andromeda 4. Matrix-12/Xpander 5. E-mu Morpheus 6. Evolver I have a V-Synth and a Morpheus now. The Stromborg was stillborn, and the market price of the Matrix-12 & Xpander rose...

Yes! Great points, all. The thing that frustrates me most about the RCA is that its sequencing function was such a huge focus, then and now. Yeah, that's kind of a historical accident, one that worked in RCA's favor. The RCA Mark I was developed at about the same time that serialism became fashiona...

If you don't have road cases, the best approach is double-boxing, with one layer of packing between the boxes and a second layer inside the inner box. Wrap the inner box in cellophane in case it gets left out in the rain. And make sure the outer box doesn't have any markings identifying it as a synt...

The polymoog seems to have been used for the typical string synth type sounds. I'm not sure how much Fast really used the Polymoog after 1978, because I recall reading an interview with him from about that time where he said that he found it very difficult to reproduce a patch on. He had just gotte...

piRoN wrote:Easy, sawtooth and squarewave are a pinch of piss to generate electronically ,

Yep, sawtooth oscillators in particular were widely used in television circuits -- that's what generated the horizontal and vertical sweeps in early TV sets.

IIRC, Prepal was driven by a script that ran off of the Sonic State classifieds. I don't know if it's broken now, or if it's just that there are so few listings on Sonic State now that there's nothing to drive it. It was a great resource, ten years ago.

I doubt there was any copying, I mean, electronics is electronics, it's a limited field. It's kind of like, if the guy who invented the first wheel didn't do it, someone else would have. That's true. When it 's time for something to be invented, it is, and you'd be surprised how often two people co...

I'm far from a P5 expert, but I understand a lot of them had iffy power supplies.