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Drum machine....soldiering gone bad

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rapper_eater

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Hi,

This problem is largely my fault but I was wondering what y'all think...is it fixable or did I destroy this fine machine of mine?

I burned off one of my circuit paths on my ASR-X (drum machine). This is causing the drum machine to skip sounds. For example it will jump from sound bank ten to sound bank Fifteen.

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I've supplied a picture to show where the path is burned (it's on the back side of the board).

I was trying to install new rotary nobs. But it look like I really screwed up.

Any suggestions other then learn how to solider.

The Drum Machine is an ASR-X pro by Ensoniq.

Thanks for your help!
 
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For those planning to click on his link - make sure your antivirus is up to date .......
 

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errr

:eek:

Sorry I had no idea, I'm going to run a few different virus scans to sort out the problem.

I'll post another picture later today.

Thanks for the heads up!
 
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It wasn't your machine that had the virus. When the site you uploaded to served me a popup window, that window had the bad code on it so its related to the site you linked to.

Maybe just resize the picture and upload it directly on here :)
 
That looks extremely trivial, just solder a piece of wire across the missing track.

At that scale, it looks to me like it might be even easier: just intentionally solder bridge it. That's a pretty small gap.


Regards,

Torben
 
To the right of the board looks like some kind of residue - did this board get damaged by liquid at all ?
 
a few more questions....

Thanks for the responses I've been a little cautious doing any more work on this machine...this whole project has been a little discouraging I have to say.

Could this connection be causing the rotary knobs to skip sounds? I know it's hard to say with out seeing the schematics.

It's right under where the knob is. My guess is just fix it and see what happens but I don't want to get my hopes up.

Also it appears to be burned (no soldier visible) will this matter upon repairing it?

Whats the likely hood I toasted the board or any of the components on the other side?

As for the residue....

I bought it off eBay...opened it up and it had that residue on both of it's boards...didn't seem to effect the function of the machine though. In hindsight I should of got the seller to send a picture of the boards.

Cleaned most of it off with alcohol. Any recommendations on a more effective cleaning method?

Thanks!

PS
Has any one ever worked on an ASR-X pro or Akai MPC? Any idea where I could get these schematics?
 
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