Interestingly, the new Roland Juno D6, D7 and D8 come with class compliant USB. One would hope class compliant USB is coming to the Fantom series.

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A few years ago I bought a d70 with the keyboard chopped off, for 20€ or so. Looks terrible but works fine

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I guess the Receptor dealer thing is about me? If you have any questions about my time working with Muse I’m happy to help

For clarification, Behringer uses ARM chips to emulate digital synths, but uses analogue electronic components to simulate analogue synths, no? Behringer 's UB-Xa is a fully analogue synth with 16 note polyphony, but still with an affordable price tag. That's proof that supports Espen's claim that analogue synths don't need to be super expensive. The kind like OB-X8 are just borrowing the brand image and expensiveness of the original vintage synth to sell at a higher price ---- which is why Espen calls it a scam I suppose. Personally, I like to simplify things: The synths that are affordable for me are the good synths. The ones out of reach are not 😅

re: the red marks on the cables - I've owned mine since new, and just opened it and confirm mine has the same red marks, but it's definitely not had anyone else in there!

Well said, thanks! My own opinion (if anyone cares ;-), is on the side of the user interface discussion. Being a 40+ year IT prof I really don't wanna be bothered with a Windows or Mac computing environment to compose and create music or sound patches with. I very much enjoy the physical experience of turning knobs and dials and switches. Having a see of LEDs welcoming me in my home studio, consistently puts a smile on my face each and every day. Especially now with the controversy of the major operating system spying on it's users (the Win 11 copilot ongoing saga, Apple putting AI chips for pattern recognition in all its modern hardware to detect abusive content.....) my appetite for modern operating systems has gone down to zero (obviously Linux/BSD systems being the exception). I did get a bit peeved by Espen's remark about the Osmose. Obviously the Osmose sound engine is based on the Eaganmatrix Sharc DSP architecture, by definition it is a computer in a similar way that our microwave is a computer. But Espen does totally miss the amazing "user interface" of the Osmose: the keyboard that allows you to manipulate the VCA and/or VCF envelope curve of each and every note you play independently. One question, do I understand that the OB-X and UB-Xa synths are indeed software emulations of the chipsets? I understood that both Oberheim and Beringer do use modern version of the original oscillator and filter hardware chips.

Do u know anyone who has KORG OASYS REPAIR PARTS

I still don't understand this stupidity of roland to not make the fantom Class compliant. There is the Numa X Piano for half the price and it is class compliant. Only recently they made the Juno-D6-D7-D8 class compliant

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my volume knob is very scratchy I am gonna try contact cleaner a try. Thx great video.

Very well said and explained. I own a few legacy instruments myself and appreciate the efforts of those who keep this old tech working. 😀

I had a broken key on a akai 88 key midi controller repaired at a local shop for $180. Ouch. 😬 I quickly became comfortable with fixing it myself and found a source for Akai parts.

Everything breaks. Buy two of them.

Thanks!

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I too have just refurbished my studio and bought the lambden audio la-8x system, wiring looms, and an extra la-8x speaker for the centre channel (part of a 5.1 setup). I’ve used studiospares for years and also was horrified they’ve gone into liquidation, BUT, I did a search on companies house and the company has only been registered since 2017 which could indicate that they went and came back before, so who knows, they may reform!! Sadly though, I think lambden audio was one of their operations. I’ve also got a pair of their seiwen monitors, amazing kit. I hope they come back but it not, RIP

Hi, I came around this to find out which Firmware your JX-8P is running: To check current os: hold [Piano 1] while powering the device .

Another British institution gone. Thanks Bezos.

I remember this happening to me when I was learning MIDI. The Roland U220, while a single box, is also multi-timbral meaning it can play up to 6 different parts at a time. Each part gets a different receive midi channel. Likely there is a part on the U220 listening on channel 1 and likely a timbre on the M3r listening on channel 2. This would cause both instruments to play a note at same time. Hope it helps.

The Round keyboard connectors are called PS2 not PCI. PCI is an internal card expansion format. Re Drive cloning, Use Clonezilla. it does a bit for bit clone so the destination will be totally identical to the source.

I was the UK Dealer/Support for a number of years. We sold them to loads of Bands and Musicians. Jules Holland used one live for many years. I was sat backstage in Lincoln when he tested it..by using it for a full gig.. I was terrified! but it worked great and he bought two!. I was hoping that muse would put more work into the uniwire plugin which allowed it to work within a DAW as a plugin, but it never worked reliably. I could have sold lots to Film Composers as a way to expand their plugin capacity above what their MAc G5 (etc) could handle. I have literally just bought one again from a client to refresh myself with.

You never mention if the WD mechanical drive is SATA 1/2/3. I'm guessing SATA 2 3Gb/sec

Thanks for the useful info here. If I could be so bold as to add my 2c worth: the biggest issue with the JX-8p is the “LMH” switch on the backside near the audio outputs. It’s the 8P’s Achilles’ heel. MANY of them have been sold as “not working” when in fact the only thing they need is some contact cleaner sprayed into this switch. The other biggie which is pretty much universal across them all is the aftertouch strip failing. This doesn’t stop you using the synth, but prevents you from using the aftertouch functionality which really adds another dimension to the keyboard. 🙂

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Hi Jon, Thanks for featuring my comment. Delighted to say my Yamaha TG77 got a full service and is now fully MOT'd for the foreseeable! I imagine the first service it's gotten since whenever it was purchased in around 1989 or so. My first move was to do a visual check for bulging/leaky caps of which there were none, visually the unit appeared to be in perfect condition. Diagnostic mode showed no faults, with the exception of the internal battery reading 2.7v or 2.8v, which does not show as an error in Diagnostic tests. This was the obvious first step as I read in some old forum posts that unusually (to me) issues with internal battery can eventually effect the sound generation aspects of the synth. I had a battery holder fitted in an easily accessible part of the inside of the TG, new internal battery but alas the same issue persisted. I had initially thought that the 'clipping/distortion' issue was only occurring or much more prevalent on the AFM engine of the synth, however after some testing and trouble shooting this was found to not be the case. Both AFM and AWM engines were affected, and snowballed with higher velocities and with more polyphony. Cut a long story short, thankfully I have family member who is a tech and music tech wizz, who carried out the entire troubleshooting proper and repair. So what I thought to be distortion or clipping if I remember correctly was a square wave clock being superimposed somewhere along the way. With this issue occurring from the main outputs and headphone out. The faulty component for the main outputs was this : PCM56P DAC which was getting strange measurements compared to the other DACS. Essentially they believed it to be running internally at a different clock speed that the big YM3029 digital chip and creating that harsh square wave on the analog output of the PCM56P. Ended up removing the Main outs DAC and individual outs 5-8 DAC, installed sockets and swapped those DACs. All of the analog board was checked for issues too, everything else was all good! Picked up a PCM56P myself for the individual outputs after the main repair was complete, popped it in and everything has been running great since. The TG77 is still an absolute monster of a synth 35 years later. Really a remarkable synthesizer for 1989 that would still turn heads today! Hopefully this comment will be somewhat helpful to other people out there experiencing similar issues with their TG or SY 77! Cheers, Ross

I have the same issue with my R5. No sound, even with headphones. Helpful suggestion, in the sense that I now know I won't be able to fix it! I'll see if I can find a tech somewhere.

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I agree with your points for a surface. My question is how IS the system 8 (or system 1 for that matter) for an instrument controller? Not talking about Roland VSTs. For instance, Vengeance or Omnishpere? I ask because I am unaware of any midi keys out there (aside from possibly sledge 2.0) that are laid out similar to your standard multi osc synths and this is the controller style which I would like. thanks!

Roland should re-release the A110. That thing is so cool.