I was bad today... :)

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:02 pm

Here ya go folks. ALL the pics I took from beginning to end. I'm adding titles now.

http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/ab49/mjlarsen/m50/

-Mc

mocando · Post by **mocando** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:30 pm

Awesome.

I have one question, though. In the picture called "It fits. Looks purty" I can see many electronic things, like condensers and resistors. Are they needed? Do you have a part list for those?

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:40 pm

that was AFTER I removed it from a PC power supply. Turns out you can't buy those female jacks at Radio Shack or Menards. I removed those but didn't take a pic. If you look later where you see the final thing soldered up (power adapter mounted), you'll notice those are removed.

Sorry.

mocando · Post by **mocando** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:04 pm

Pufff.. What a relief

It thought it would have been a very complicated thing.

Blackadder7 · Post by **Blackadder7** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:12 pm

McHale wrote:the M50-88 is a whole different animal. It uses the M3 keybed which ISN'T cheap in any way and it's manufactured in Japan where the 61 and 73 are made in China. I also don't see the keybed alone being profitable and it would cost the consumer QUITE a bit of money if such an upgrade even existed.

The Korg SP-250 has the same keybed as the M50-88 and that's a cheap digital piano. I know they're great keys, but how can they put them in cheap piano's?

The Yamaha P85 is about the same as the SP-250 and that has lousy keys, while the Yamaha MO8, the Korg's competitor, has one of Yamaha's best.

Critica1 · Post by **Critica1** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:25 am

McHale wrote:ahhhhh newbies. Almost begging to get flamed. Welcome to the internet Critica1. You should have mom or dad sit with you for a while.

Until then, please be quiet. Grown ups are talking...

-Mc

p.s The term for what you just did is called "trolling." It's also not considered humorous or welcome.

i just "fapped" all over my keyboard

Zanator · Post by **Zanator** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:31 am

Some keys of my M50 have started to keep some clicking / rattling noise. Do you have the same? You thing that tightening some screws would help.

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:49 pm

as keybeds wear in, they will make a little more noise. I wouldn't worry about it. But tightening screws related to the keybed could put stress on the keys that could cause them to break.

I'd leave everything alone until a more significant problem occurs. You should be fine...

-Mc

Yatrix · Post by **Yatrix** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:10 pm

Wonder if memory chip removable? Would be good to burn better piano samples instead of standard...

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:31 pm

This would be basically impossible.

But, I spent a few hours last night JUST working with the M50 pianos and the samplesets to choose from are quite good actually. There are a couple progs that with a little tweaking are damn near perfect for most situations or music types.

Yatrix · Post by **Yatrix** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:38 pm

Well, I spent couple of weeks tweaking too, then....get used , but from time to time feel like it should be better, to support my inspiration

If compare with very small VST TruePiano from Cakewalk Sonar for example ....

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