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RE: [DSI Synths] Potentiometer 'upgrade' --- comments? is it a good thing?

2011-02-14 by dale@inquisitorbetrayer.com

yep, 100% with you ... yesterday I started to get a tad tweaked with 2 of
them, out of the blue, no matter how easy, hard, fast, slow or anything,
it stayed the same ... I spun that a thousand times before it started to
work then only hit or miss ... I going to take some time to check them all
close and the Prophet 08 too ... I love them for the unique sounds but I
can not tolerate controls that do not work right ... I do not want to use
them only midi wise or editor either, I want my grubby hands on the knobs
and those knobs to respond ... silly thought huh?

Dale


> Hi Dale
>
>> I am also starting to have encoder issues now too. Just a matter of time
>> I guess and use.
>
> Yeah, I should have mentioned that.  The Pot upgrade is flippin expensive
> but, I had 2 or 3 dodgy encoders so I justified the expense along the
> lines
> of "some encoders are not working correctly so I need to get it fixed;
> upgrading gets it fixed with the bonus of turning my PEK into the synth it
> should have been from day 1".
>
> Without the dodgy encoders, I don't think I could have justified the
> expense..
>
> Paul
> London
> www.punkdisco.co.uk
> Banned by YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EvlOpBe0xU

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