On 08/06/2018 08:47 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
In my experience with my Roland D20 (from the 1980's), the slider's eventually get 'noisy', and even some click-switches sometimes fail to have effect, taking multiple tries to work.
My old Fatar MIDI-72 controller keyboard eventually stopped working due to mechanical issues like that. It was reparable, but really not worth it.
I haven't had problems with the sound-generator yet, but I don't use it very much any more.
So far so good on mine. I've just read that the electrolytic capacitors eventually degrade and stop functioning. Theoretically, that is totally reparable too. I haven't had the board out of this thing in a long time, but I don't think it's a complicated board. I can probably swap the components. Assuming it's possible to find human-sized electronics anymore. These days it's all the microscopic surface-mount stuff.
Well, not really. I've built a couple Arduino projects using resistors that are a lot smaller than the days of yore, but still macro scale.
Anyway, I'll figure it out when the thing finally dies. Or maybe not. I barely do MIDI anymore. I evolved into one man band multi track type production where it's 100% audio. I basically just use MIDI now when I'm figuring out a brass part for myself, because I never did get good at improvising on brass. So easy to hit the wrong slots and think you're playing X when you're playing Y. I don't remotely have perfect pitch, and can't blow a note and tell you if it's a Bb or an F. The way the slots overlap, you can play the same intervals you were aiming for across a fairly long string of notes, and then you reach for something that isn't where you thought it was, because you're actually playing in the next slot up from where you thought you were, etc. I have a lot of respect for guys who can just improv in any key on the spur of the moment on three-valve brass.
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