OBERHEIM SYNTH

Ouch. 
I really feel for you. I know what you're going thru and it sucks. That older gear sounds fantastic and you want to play it forever, but you just cant.
I went thru the same thing but with an old Memorymoog converted to a plus, except my problem was that I had to hit the autotune button 3-4 times a SET. It had me stymied. I couldnt find anyone in the US who even wanted to touch it, Big Briar had folded and the only guy that was doing any work was half of Big Briar - located in Germany - and at the time he wanted $5k to work on it, modify it from a Plus back to a standard Memorymoog and shipping to and from Germany (yeah. right. Ship a Memorymoog in any case - I did have a flite case tho - to Germany and back). I got lucky and got $500 for it for the parts....

Good luck with your OB-Xa.

Bim

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, Charles Massey <cmassey@...> wrote:
>
> Tim,
> 
> I hate to rain on your parade but this machine will drive you  
> insane.........  I ended up giving mine away after spending a fortune  
> on it trying to keep it playing and in tune.  It was wonderful when it  
> was working but.............
> 
> I ended up buying two Matrix 6R's and an Xpander.  They were all very  
> good sounding and were absolutely no trouble, even after over 20 years  
> of service.
> 
> FWIW
> 
> Charlie in Florida
> 
> 
> On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Timmy wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had a perfectly functional OB-Xa which I turned on today and now I  
> > get no sound.  After turning it on the Patch 1 light blinks several  
> > times (like a bad voice in auto-tune would blink) and then nothing  
> > happens.
> >
> > LEDs are lit on the board, but pushing buttons does not do anything,  
> > meaning none of the functions work, pressing any buttons won't make  
> > them light, etc..).  No sound comes from the outputs.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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