On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 09:44 +0100, gordonjcp@xxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:05:48AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 17:42 -0500, Brent Busby wrote: > > > If it's from the 80's, the filters will likely even be real analog. > > > > And if one of those CEM chips gets broken you're lost. Even special > > chips from the 90s might not be available anymore. > > > > Just replace it with a modern equivalent. There is a guy in Germany > making replacement Juno filter modules. You could adapt those to fit > any synth. A quick googling does lead to replacements for Juno 106 filters only, but we not only need filters and even not all filters seem to be available as replacements. More often I found people saying what I has written: Keep borked vintage synth to have spare parts or at least sell the chips, but don't through away old synth. In the past Dirk often borrowed me one of his Juno 106, since I never owned one, but it's one of the synth I like very much. He bought those Junos second hand, one for less money, than somebody from this list payed for just one borked Juno's CEM chips. I don't know, perhaps it was you who has written how expensive a single chip was some years ago? However, it's a risk to buy vintage synth, especially for people who don't like hoarding. If you aren't rich, maintaining vintage synth is hard to do and even rich people run into issues, Dirk never was able to repair his Fairlight, resp. we aren't friends anymore, perhaps he could repair it within the last years. A friend did buy survival kits for his Sequencials and for Sequencials he repaired for others, they were very expensive and came without a warranty, that those second hand spare parts are all ok, AFAIK fortunately all used chips were ok, but he can't be sure that the once he perhaps needs in the future, will be ok too. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
