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How To Fix Bad Synth Keys With A Pencil

Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude
edited October 2023 in Hardware

A little video I just released that might be fun or of interest to some users..

Comments

  • TelefunkyTelefunky

    good job... and a tasty background track B) :+1:

  • NeuMNeuM

    A very entertaining tutorial. Feel free to make more of these. This was fun. 👍

  • michael_mmichael_m
    edited October 2023

    I know it’s not related to the thread, but reading another thread before this that took a rather scatological turn reminded me of this joke:

    Did you heard about the constipated mathematician solving problems when his calculator broke?

    He just worked it out with a pencil.

  • PxlhgPxlhg

    Nicely done!

  • Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude

    @michael_m said:
    I know it’s not related to the thread, but reading another thread before this that took a rather scatological turn reminded me of this joke:

    Did you heard about the constipated mathematician solving problems when his calculator broke?

    He just worked it out with a pencil.

    Ha! Dad joke groaner alert! :D :s

  • Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude
    edited October 2023

    @Telefunky said:
    good job... and a tasty background track B) :+1:

    Thanks! Yeah, maybe not most appropriate background track, but I wanted to use music made with ONLY the keyboard's internal sounds and I remembered I had that track I created back in 2009 when I was reviewing the instrument for Electronic Musician magazine.

    A lot of it is actually a medley of unfinished tunes I wrote years earlier back in the 80s. I should recycle and expand some of those ideas someday... I've been telling myself for 30 years! :*

  • michael_mmichael_m

    @Lady_App_titude said:

    @michael_m said:
    I know it’s not related to the thread, but reading another thread before this that took a rather scatological turn reminded me of this joke:

    Did you heard about the constipated mathematician solving problems when his calculator broke?

    He just worked it out with a pencil.

    Ha! Dad joke groaner alert! :D :s

    Yeah, sorry about that… :lol:

  • Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude
    edited October 2023

    @NeuM said:
    A very entertaining tutorial. Feel free to make more of these. This was fun. 👍

    Thanks! The interesting (possibly depressing) part is that the video got over 500 views in the first 24 hours! By contrast, videos of my original music struggle to get a couple hundred views a year! (My last release is currently at 170 views after 2 months, for example.)

    Part of the reason I decided to do such a video was to see if it might help increase traffic to my Youtube page. You see, I'm just trying to get enough subscribers to stop Youtube from running ADS on MY ORIGINAL CONTENT. If anyone would like to help reach this goal, please consider subscribing! I know it gets old everybody always asking you to subscribe, like, etc. But in this case, I just want to fight the Youtube Advertising Industrial Complex and regain control of my own content. Thanks in advance everyone for any help with this effort. I still need hundreds more subscribers to be able to stop Evil Corp's ads.

    Returning to your comment about making more such videos... The only thing similar I've made previously was this little 50-second highlight video of the MAJOR MAJOR surgery I went though working on fixing my vintage Yamaha keyboard:

  • Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude

    Not video, but I also made this little visual tutorial on how I replaced the battery in my Yamaha V50. Dead battery is one of the most common issues with vintage instruments:

  • TelefunkyTelefunky
    edited October 2023

    @Lady_App_titude In case you frequently have to unsolder parts, do a search for ZD-915.
    It‘s a cheapo Unsoldering Station, which works like an iron with a nozzle connected to a pump.
    Beware of the original model because the gun clots frequently, but recent releases improved this. Check videos about the differences.
    (I have the 1st version that clotted 2 times, and now I just pay attention to this problem)

    Otherwise it‘s a great unit, if you don‘t have a pro application with daily duty for hours.
    (in that case it‘s simply trash)
    With vintage gear (leaded) it‘s a breeze to suck solder from multiple points, but the big advantage is it‘s high temperature range for current (lead-free) solder.
    Nozzles (comes with 3) are exchangeable for different wire sizes.

    There are probably variants of this unit under other brand names, too.
    Costs about $100, which it‘s really worth (considering the damage one can do the traditional way).

  • Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude
    edited October 2023

    @Telefunky said:
    @Lady_App_titude In case you frequently have to unsolder parts, do a search for ZD-915.
    It‘s a cheapo Unsoldering Station, which works like an iron with a nozzle connected to a pump.
    Beware of the original model because the gun clots frequently, but recent releases improved this. Check videos about the differences.
    (I have the 1st version that clotted 2 times, and now I just pay attention to this problem)

    Otherwise it‘s a great unit, if you don‘t have a pro application with daily duty for hours.
    (in that case it‘s simply trash)
    With vintage gear (leaded) it‘s a breeze to suck solder from multiple points, but the big advantage is it‘s high temperature range for current (lead-free) solder.
    Nozzles (comes with 3) are exchangeable for different wire sizes.

    There are probably variants of this unit under other brand names, too.
    Costs about $100, which it‘s really worth (considering the damage one can do the traditional way).

    Thanks! Yes, a de-soldering gun would be amazing. But since I've only had to do it a few times in my life -- and hope to NEVER have to do it again, fat chance! -- it's basically just the old soldering iron and wick for me. It felt intimidating back when I wrote that PDF, but it was not that bad once I practiced for a bit on some scrap PCB. And I've done it a few times since, so I don't dread it as much anymore. And yes, if I did it more often I would invest in better tools. But all this restoring vintage keyboard stuff has kinda cured me of my nostalgic lust to acquire or re-acquire old vintage hardware. I'm now reminded how much easier my life became when I got rid of most of my hardware and went "in the box" back in the early aughts.

    Working on keyboards feels like what my German friends call "Sträflingsarbeit" (convict labor)! :D

    But if you have anything from the 80s/early 90s, you are probably going to have to deal with replacing the battery, and they are almost always soldered onto the board! And keyboard techs charge like $150 nowadays so even the smallest repair ends up being more than what the thing is worth. So, you force yourself to acquire at least minimum DIY skills.

  • NeuMNeuM

    @Lady_App_titude said:

    @Telefunky said:
    @Lady_App_titude In case you frequently have to unsolder parts, do a search for ZD-915.
    It‘s a cheapo Unsoldering Station, which works like an iron with a nozzle connected to a pump.
    Beware of the original model because the gun clots frequently, but recent releases improved this. Check videos about the differences.
    (I have the 1st version that clotted 2 times, and now I just pay attention to this problem)

    Otherwise it‘s a great unit, if you don‘t have a pro application with daily duty for hours.
    (in that case it‘s simply trash)
    With vintage gear (leaded) it‘s a breeze to suck solder from multiple points, but the big advantage is it‘s high temperature range for current (lead-free) solder.
    Nozzles (comes with 3) are exchangeable for different wire sizes.

    There are probably variants of this unit under other brand names, too.
    Costs about $100, which it‘s really worth (considering the damage one can do the traditional way).

    Thanks! Yes, a de-soldering gun would be amazing. But since I've only had to do it a few times in my life -- and hope to NEVER have to do it again, fat chance! -- it's basically just the old soldering iron and wick for me. It felt intimidating back when I wrote that PDF, but it was not that bad once I practiced for a bit on some scrap PCB. And I've done it a few times since, so I don't dread it as much anymore. And yes, if I did it more often I would invest in better tools. But all this restoring vintage keyboard stuff has kinda cured me of my nostalgic lust to acquire or re-acquire old vintage hardware. I'm now reminded how much easier my life became when I got rid of most of my hardware and went "in the box" back in the early aughts.

    Working on keyboards feels like what my German friends call "Sträflingsarbeit" (convict labor)! :D

    But if you have anything from the 80s/early 90s, you are probably going to have to deal with replacing the battery, and they are almost always soldered onto the board! And keyboard techs charge like $150 nowadays so even the smallest repair ends up being more than what the thing is worth. So, you force yourself to acquire at least minimum DIY skills.

    I love DIY... as long as it's someone else doing it. ;)

  • Lady_App_titudeLady_App_titude

    @NeuM said:

    I love DIY... as long as it's someone else doing it. ;)

    Right?

    DIY usually becomes DYI (Do Yourself In). :p

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