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ozy · Guest

My Korg dvp-1 vocoder died today. Crying or Very sad

Does anybody know where I can get a service manual?

McHale · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:10 am Post subject:

Let me dig. I'm sure I have it in .pdf format

PM me your email address...
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McHale · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 3:58 pm Post subject:

Sorry guys, don't have it. I'll start looking for it again. SOMEBODY has to have it...

-Mc
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ozy · Guest

don't waste your time: I phoned a service center, and they'll try fixing the machine. Sad

Now I gotta call the bank... Rolling Eyes

Last time I dealt with Korg Italy, they scalped me...

BTW: Thanks for trying. Wink

McHale · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject:

see if they'll give you a copy of the service manual while they're at it. Smile

seriously.

Did you replace the CR2032 battery though before deciding it needed repair?

-Mc

p.s. Don't forget to ask them for a copy of the service manual. Wink

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Current Korg Gear: KRONOS 88 (4GB), M50-73 (PS mod), RADIAS-73, Electribe MX, Triton Pro (MOSS, SCSI, CF, 64MB RAM), DVP-1, MEX-8000, MR-1, KAOSSilator, nanoKey, nanoKontrol, nanoPad 2, 3x DS1H, 7x PS1, FC7 (yes Korg, NOT Yamaha).

ozy · Guest

I can't change the battery myself. I am electronically inept.

Fat fingers. Any tool smaller than a baseball bat is something whose handling I'd rather delegate to a dwarf.

But I'll sure try to get a copy of the service manual.

Now that I think of it,

"negotiating a rebate on korg service's prices", "getting the manual" and "handling a baseball bat"

could be somehow related to each other... Twisted Evil

McHale · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:09 pm Post subject:

my .02 cents is the battery went bad. It happens and is part of life. They better not charge the crap out of desoldering an old one and soldering in a new one.

BTW

Have them solder in a CR2032 battery holder instead of a battery so you can easily replace it later.

Go with the bottom one. Radio Shack has them for about a buck.

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Current Korg Gear: KRONOS 88 (4GB), M50-73 (PS mod), RADIAS-73, Electribe MX, Triton Pro (MOSS, SCSI, CF, 64MB RAM), DVP-1, MEX-8000, MR-1, KAOSSilator, nanoKey, nanoKontrol, nanoPad 2, 3x DS1H, 7x PS1, FC7 (yes Korg, NOT Yamaha).

mocando · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:33 am Post subject:

McHale · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:31 am Post subject:

ozy · Guest

Mc hale: thanks. Good idea, installing a battery holder for future replacement. Will do.

Mocambo: maybe I want to know the dvp's test routines.

Maybe I couldn't find the OS and factory sound sysex anywhere on the web, and need a service for that as well. At least, I need to know in advance how the OS reset has to be done. Recently it's on the Ow-man, on vintage instruments it was in the Service manual.

Maybe I am not totally inept and I was just practising self-deprecating humor.

Maybe if I had so fat fingers I woudln't be a keyboard player.

Maybe you should cheer up a bit.

Maybe you stepping in a discussion just for the sake of sneering doesn't make you look smart as you expect.

Jonathan · Joined: 16 Aug 2010 Posts: 4

Hi Ozy,
do u still need the manual?
I have it and just subscribe to be able to send it to u if u want Smile

Let me know,
best,
J.

ozy · Guest

Hi.

Thanks,

I solved the immediate problem and don't need the manual with any urgency, but I'd like to have it for the next time.

So, if sharing it is no hassle for you, I'd like to receive it. If it implies excessive burden, it's not urgent.

My mail address is:

Info (at) nobodyensemble (dot) com

Thanks again

McHale · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:01 am Post subject:

Jonathin, I'd like it if you wouldn't mind sending it... I try to keep service manuals for everything I currently own.

Thanks!

-Mc
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Current Korg Gear: KRONOS 88 (4GB), M50-73 (PS mod), RADIAS-73, Electribe MX, Triton Pro (MOSS, SCSI, CF, 64MB RAM), DVP-1, MEX-8000, MR-1, KAOSSilator, nanoKey, nanoKontrol, nanoPad 2, 3x DS1H, 7x PS1, FC7 (yes Korg, NOT Yamaha).

Jonathan · Joined: 16 Aug 2010 Posts: 4

ozy · Guest

Thanks Jonathan.

By the way: it wasn't the battery. The dsp was shot.

I bought another, battered, dvp-1 and cannibalized it. Had the battery-holder installed.

It's one hell of a machine: I use only ONE factory preset (the first) - and I'm usually a roll-your-own, preset-hating, customize-even-my-microoven kind of guy.

It's just.. musical. You plug it in, layer a cheap harmonizer for intelligibility, and start playing. It's got body, compression, harmonics.

Happy I could rescue it.