Vintage Synth Repair

Thanks a lot! I could no way afford the LAMM upgrade..It's so expensive, plus the risk and expense of shipping. Also there are a couple of reasons I think I dont need it even if I did have the cash and were willing to take the risk.
 
First off my friend has owned a memorymoog for 15 years without a single problem I have spoke to other owners and they have said similar or have had minimal problems. I believe as long as you maintain them  and dont move them around too much they are fine. I never trust what I read on the net Im sure these things get hyped up out of all preportion. I can obviously see how this thing would be prone to failure though with all those molex connectors, ribbons, curtis chips, heat etc.
 
Secondly I dont need MIDI, a big part of the LAMM upgrade is the excellent MIDI upgrade. I personally hate MIDI and never use it. My experience is that a Memorymoog plus is also worse than a non-plus, LAMM themselves rip it out and throw the upgrade away. Having the sequencer and MIDI does nothing but put more strain on that poor Z80. Not that the net would have you believe that.
 
If you dont need the MIDI option, there is so much you can do yourself to vastly improve this machine., upgrade the PSU, upgrade the OS, perform the Autotune upgrade, perform all the mods MOOG themselves put out in bulletins and much more. 
 
I will get it fixed first, then perform all the upgrades I can think of or find. I'll live with it for a while and see what happens...see how often it breaks down!
 
I have fixed a lot more...I'll post it up later :o)
 
Thanks, Phil.
 
 
--- On Wed, 27/8/08, duncan <ferrograph@...> wrote:

From: duncan <ferrograph@...>
Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Memorymoog repair
To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 27 August, 2008, 12:47 PM






phil- following your journey with interest & some sympathy. I have
fallen foul of "someone's been in here before me" syndrome too,
although (thank bob) not in the case of my memorymoog, which is a LAMM
in any case. 

you could do a lot worse than take y'rself over to the rather quiet
mini/memorymoog list & cross-post there. also, I believe rudi linhard
(mr LAMM) has a colleague in the US who may be able/willing to offer
some pointers. 

if you can afford it & are willing to step away from the project
yourself, the LAMM upgrade is the best gift you can give to this
mighty synth.
presumably you have the schemos?
one last thing- get some caig on the connectors, & check that they all
seat properly. I had a "5-tuned" scenario a year or so ago, where
osc-3 on one voice wouldn't track. that was a loose connector.

good luck!

duncan/r.m.i. /LAMM#1290 

 













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