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[YamahaDX] DX7 randomly distorts certain notes
ayiakoum@yahoo.com [YamahaDX]
2017-11-10 02:24:17 UTC
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I have a DX7 MK1 that randomly distorts the sound of a note (sounds like an electronic fire shot) every 8-15 notes. Any note can be affected by this. I replaced the DAC chip but this did not fix the issue. Has anyone encountered this problem before and was able to resolve it? Any ideas of probable cause?
Martin Tarenskeen m.tarenskeen@zonnet.nl [YamahaDX]
2017-11-10 07:58:26 UTC
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Post by ***@yahoo.com [YamahaDX]
I have a DX7 MK1 that randomly distorts the sound of a note (sounds like an
electronic fire shot) every 8-15 notes. Any note can be affected by this. I
replaced the DAC chip but this did not fix the issue. Has anyone encountered
this problem before and was able to resolve it? Any ideas of probable cause?
Could it be a keyboard issue? Cleaning the keyboard contacts might help?
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MT
Daniel Forró danforcz@yahoo.com [YamahaDX]
2017-11-10 08:42:31 UTC
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I don’t think this can be connected with keyboard mechanics, when all keys trigger some sound. More probably there’s something wrong with key decoders TC40H138 (IC1 and IC2), or sub CPU 6805S (IC13)
 if not the worse case that EGS YM21290 (IC29) or OPS YM21280 (IC36) are ill


Randomly means any key can cause it? That number of key presses is 8 to 15, so number of presses before the problem occurs is changed also randomly?

Does it occur with any sound? With any setting of EG on each operator? Also on initialized sound?

Is affected also something different, for example switches or other controllers behavior?

Have you tried diagnostics?

Could you try to set a basic sound with algorithm 32, set level of all operators to 99, and try by selecting only one operator in time if it occurs on all operators or only on specific operator? Probably it will not diagnose the problem which is not operator specific but voice specific but I would try it as well


The best way would be to check also clock (Xtals) and other digital signals - communication between keyboard decoders, sub CPU, MPU, EGS, OPS
 Task for a specialist.

Daniel Forro
Post by Martin Tarenskeen ***@zonnet.nl [YamahaDX]
Post by ***@yahoo.com [YamahaDX]
I have a DX7 MK1 that randomly distorts the sound of a note (sounds like an
electronic fire shot) every 8-15 notes. Any note can be affected by this. I
replaced the DAC chip but this did not fix the issue. Has anyone encountered
this problem before and was able to resolve it? Any ideas of probable cause?
Could it be a keyboard issue? Cleaning the keyboard contacts might help?
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MT
Florian Anwander fanwander@mnet-online.de [YamahaDX]
2017-11-10 08:35:55 UTC
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Hello!
Post by ***@yahoo.com [YamahaDX]
I have a DX7 MK1 that randomly distorts the sound of a note (sounds
like an electronic fire shot) every 8-15 notes. Any note can be
affected by this. I replaced the DAC chip but this did not fix the
issue. Has anyone encountered this problem before and was able to
resolve it? Any ideas of probable cause?
Does this happen also with the init sound?


Florian
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http://www.florian-anwander.de
Daniel Forró danforcz@yahoo.com [YamahaDX]
2017-11-10 08:43:51 UTC
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Hi, Florian,

I just asked the same besides other questions :-)

Daniel Forro
Post by Florian Anwander ***@mnet-online.de [YamahaDX]
Hello!
Post by ***@yahoo.com [YamahaDX]
I have a DX7 MK1 that randomly distorts the sound of a note (sounds
like an electronic fire shot) every 8-15 notes. Any note can be
affected by this. I replaced the DAC chip but this did not fix the
issue. Has anyone encountered this problem before and was able to
resolve it? Any ideas of probable cause?
Does this happen also with the init sound?
Florian
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http://www.florian-anwander.de
Joe Manton joemanton@gmail.com [YamahaDX]
2017-11-11 05:40:36 UTC
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Hi all, I have had a similar thing happen with one of the TF1s in my tx816. I never diagnosed it or looked into it at all. I liked the random occasional broken note!

Joe

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