Crumar Musical Instruments User Group.

Hi Matt,

I don't own  DS2 anymore but as i remember the controls that you  
mention are potentiometers & rotary switches, not encoders.
Their values should be on the schematics and workable (not exact)  
replacements easily found.


john

On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:34 AM, zxkxki wrote:

> Hi guys , just picked up a ds2 but need to now give it some care and  
> attention , does anyone know if replacements for the filter cutoff  
> encoder and the pitch scale osc encoder ( 32/16/8/4 control ) are  
> available ? and any pointers to stockists ? or maybe these are both  
> cleanable.I have ordered some dexoit for the cutoff encoder , does  
> anyone have any tips on cleaning this ? its very touchy and noisey  
> right now.The pitch scale encoder on osc 1 is very intermittant , it  
> works on '8' but only after kind of push and pull the encoder a  
> bitand get it ' just right ' , it doesnt seem to work in the others  
> but when you push and pull it on those settings it attempts to ,  
> theresa glimmer of hope - feels like bad contacts or this encoder  
> needs replacing? Ok so then theres the resonance which seems very  
> very touchy / not a not noisy pot but it has very little ' on or off  
> ' for the res , theres no res up until 90% and then it wacks in like  
> a screaming banshey....is this normal for the ds2 ? theres not much  
> between full on resonance and none or as much as iu am use to in  
> other synths, does this require work or calibration maybe ?any  
> advice would be great , especially on cleaning encoders and also  
> talking the ds2 apart and good contacts for replacment parts
>
> cheers
>
> matt
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