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Well, there was ANOTHER Judgement day this week! My beloved Voyetra 8 Synth went totally apeshit on me. All the controls did things they should not do - fun but unpredictable - and it then packed in totally, racing thru an AUTO-TUNE, and making no noise at all, bar the occational thumping sound 
What to do? Send it back to New-York, to DOUBLE-TAKE, where one of the only 2 people on the planet capable of fixing her is, or open it up and mess with it? You know what i did already. Nice design. Looks like a PC inside, all cards slotted in beside each other, mounted on a big motherboard.. So, i taped some rubber tubeing to the hoover nossle, and got in thar to suck out the 11 years of dust and (gulp) dead shit. I pulled 2 chrysalis (plural? anybody??) out that had attached themselves to the sides of things, total yuck. Orange evil creature things that definatly should not have been there. i suspect they got there in the US, cos i aint never seen the likes of them before.. Then came the removal of the boards and the cleaning and re-assembly.. And.. It booted first time, locking out ALL of the 8 voices as unusable. Messy. Well, at least the controls worked again. So, i left it for a while, try`d tuning it again and bbingo-bango-to-the-batmobile, it fu*king worked! tuned 4 out of the 8 voices, which is normal since about 1998. RESULT! another baby saved
I know what you are thinking. Since i have it open and in the bratcave, should i not fiddle with it and try and tune in those 4 missing voices - actually 2, but they are in pairs and if one is out, it mutes both on the card, er, or something.. Oh man, so many things to adjust! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeealy tempting. Nah, a bit of lurking on the interwebs reveals that to tune the cards you need to set them up outside the machine, in a special dummy slot to power them up and so on.. Only 2 of these are know to exist - yeh, i own neither.. So, i have been putting off sending it away to be serviced, since it weighs about 20kg and is actually one of my 5 favorite things in the world, and i would need to be sedated for the duration of it`s trip to NYC.. Unless.. I WENT WITH IT!!!
ANNOUNCEMENT: i hereby intend going to New York to get my Synth serviced.
Now, where was i?
What to do? Send it back to New-York, to DOUBLE-TAKE, where one of the only 2 people on the planet capable of fixing her is, or open it up and mess with it? You know what i did already. Nice design. Looks like a PC inside, all cards slotted in beside each other, mounted on a big motherboard.. So, i taped some rubber tubeing to the hoover nossle, and got in thar to suck out the 11 years of dust and (gulp) dead shit. I pulled 2 chrysalis (plural? anybody??) out that had attached themselves to the sides of things, total yuck. Orange evil creature things that definatly should not have been there. i suspect they got there in the US, cos i aint never seen the likes of them before.. Then came the removal of the boards and the cleaning and re-assembly.. And.. It booted first time, locking out ALL of the 8 voices as unusable. Messy. Well, at least the controls worked again. So, i left it for a while, try`d tuning it again and bbingo-bango-to-the-batmobile, it fu*king worked! tuned 4 out of the 8 voices, which is normal since about 1998. RESULT! another baby saved
I know what you are thinking. Since i have it open and in the bratcave, should i not fiddle with it and try and tune in those 4 missing voices - actually 2, but they are in pairs and if one is out, it mutes both on the card, er, or something.. Oh man, so many things to adjust! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeealy tempting. Nah, a bit of lurking on the interwebs reveals that to tune the cards you need to set them up outside the machine, in a special dummy slot to power them up and so on.. Only 2 of these are know to exist - yeh, i own neither.. So, i have been putting off sending it away to be serviced, since it weighs about 20kg and is actually one of my 5 favorite things in the world, and i would need to be sedated for the duration of it`s trip to NYC.. Unless.. I WENT WITH IT!!!
ANNOUNCEMENT: i hereby intend going to New York to get my Synth serviced.
Now, where was i?
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