Getting hold of a piece of synth history, and a piece of my own history as well. And fixing it is just like everybody tells you it is.
Fixing a Korg Polysix. A Polysix!
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Tag Archives: Repair
He got his Matrix’s battery replaced for free.
Props to Ralf, who lent me his Matrix-1000 to do this video.
Just a teaser for a detailed description and an unbearably long video to go with it.
Blofeld encoder fix revisited – a correction. (And apology.)
In which I have to admit that I have been wrong: the encoders in my Waldorf Blofeld synth do need a special lubricant; by cleaning all the grease from them I might have done more harm than good.
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Dead Novations Society
No, that Bass Station you are trying to play isn’t dead. It’s just gone… to an undefined state.
I had a Novation Bass Station that did not produce a single sound. Although I could confirm that MIDI was still working – the device was sending Key ON/OFF and CC messages – and the LFO LED was blinking and responded to parameter changes, the synth was mute. And some research on Ebay and on the net confirmed that there are lots of Bass Station owners with the very same problem.
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