Vintage Synth Repair

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 20:29, Philip wrote:
> Well I mail or phone the spares dept at roland UK..  I
> email at night and next morning the PDF is usually
> waiting for me in my email. Great service!
>
> I got the RS-09, SPV-335, MSQ-700 and the VS-880EX
> PDF's from there and they were very high quality..I
> couldn't find these service manuals anywhere else.
>
> My printer allows me to print out huge schematics made
> up of A4 sheets so it's a breeze.

I suppose you don't have a link handy,  then.  Not that the UK branch is 
probably what I want anyway...

I know about A4,  as that's what Roland and Korg manuals were typically 
printed on,  which is just slightly larger than US "letter size" to make life 
interesting when it comes to filing things,  etc.  :-)

> --- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason@...> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 April 2008 19:11, eggwheatis wrote:
> > > Most, if not all Roland schematics are available
> > > in PDF from...surprise, surprise....Roland! Phone or
> > > email them.
> >
> > I thought I had read somewhere that Roland was doing
> > this,  but wasn't sure. Do you have a link handy?
> >
> > One of my correspondents on the manuals issue
> > offered to fill me in on what
> > the attitude of the various companies was with
> > regard to copying and such,
> > but when I accepted his offer he never did get
> > around to getting back to me.
> >
> > I'm going to have to take a look at how those PDFs
> > compare with the stuff on
> > paper.  I am having some difficulty envisioning how
> > they'd deal with some of
> > those bigger fold-out diagrams.  One correspondent
> > wrote to me of having a
> > schematic split across four pages in the electronic
> > version of something
> > they'd downloaded,  making it awkward to work with.
> >  A really big graphic
> > file that you could scroll around might work,  I
> > suppose.
> >
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