Hi all: I'm Sebastian Cordoves from Argentina, my native language is spanish, please forgive my poor english. I'm a recording technician, and teach music production for living. My wife sings, togheter we have a electro-pop band. I own some analogue synths, and know a bit about electronics, so I do my own repairing (everytime I could). I bought a Yamaha CS-50 about 6 years ago, it worked well for about a year, but then it broke up. I bought a Kenton MIDI retrofit, but never installed it because it came a few days before the synth stopped working. For various reasons I put the synth aside and only about a year ago started trying to repair it. The problem is the KAS, and I am almost sure that is one of the Yamaha custom chips (YM26600 or YM26700). I don't have an oscilloscope, so I do some metering with a multimeter and some of the pins are outputting what I think is right data but others are dead. I have the schematics of the CS-50 (Courtesy of Kenton), I'm in the process of scanning them, I can post them later. At the moment I'm driving one voice of the synth with the CV/Gate out of my Novation BassStation Rack. I'm planning to buy a PAiA MIDI to CV interface to drive the 4 voices, and install the Kenton retrofit to control cutoff and other parameters. But it will be great if I found the Yamaha IC's and remplace them. Does anybody know where can I find those chips or even an entire KAS? I've looked in e-bay and over the internet with no luck. Thanks in advance for your help. Sebastian
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I want to introduce myself, my synth & and it's problems
2006-03-28 by sebastian_cordoves
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