>Hello, everyone! I have found an old yamaha CS01 synth in a pawn shop >and it worked fine so far until I borrowed to a friend and he had the >really stupid idea to hook a walkman into the breath control, hoping >to get some weird filter effects out of it and of course screwed it >all up! Long story short - it now has a flaw/feature Every time (and >only then) when I flip that switch below the mod/pich wheels to vcf >modulation and the mod wheel is set to 0, the filter(?) sounds gritty >and distorted which sounds kinda cool but I want to fix it now because >it's DEFECT and not a mod of mine! So where should I look? What should >I look for? I have a multimeter and nuff experience to replace some >caps and resistors and such. Just need someone to show me where to >start and what to look for. The breath controller input probably expects a resistance to be applied, not a voltage- I'd imagine it blew the first transistor, op amp, or whatever after the breath controller input. You'll likely need schematics to figure it out. _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us
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RE: [vintagesynthrepair] New here - and need help with something
2006-11-03 by Scott Nordlund
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