Micro X is acting weird

GunsOfNavarone · Post by **GunsOfNavarone** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:31 pm

Just recently, my Micro X started acting up. It seems whenever I hit the keys now, whatever sound I have set up starts to do a strange warbling effect with the pitch. It's almost like the note is going in and out of tune. Does anyone know what might be causing this? I really can't do anything with the keyboard til' I figure it out since it won't stay in tune.

Hyper5nic · Post by **Hyper5nic** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:06 pm

That sounds bad. Maybe you should contact your local retailer or Korg support. Maybe the internals have gone bad somehow.

Is your Micro X still under warranty?

GunsOfNavarone · Post by **GunsOfNavarone** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:06 am

Unfortunately the warranty is expired. Another weird thing is that when I have the Micro X midi'd to my MPC1000, it makes the samples loaded in the MPC play in weird pitches.

GunsOfNavarone · Post by **GunsOfNavarone** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:04 pm

Today I noticed the pitch wheel lever is no longer working either, I don't know what's going on.

Kossi · Post by **Kossi** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:59 pm

hi GunsOfNavarone!

that is how the micro-x reacts with a defective joystick.
happened to me today for the second time...

this time i'll try to fix it myself, because i am not willing to pay for another repair. shouldn't be too difficult.

mine had and has now again the same symptoms you describe.

so i opened my micro-x a few hours ago and this is what i saw:

the left and right wires separated from the connector.
i think the mechnical stress on the wires when manipulating the joystick is just too much too handle for the connection cable.

so now i am thinking about soldering it back to the connector, which will foreseeable lead to the next failure...
better alternative could be to replace the connectorstrings with a new one and simply cut the original wires and connect it by a terminal strip (hopefully a 3 pin-fan controller-cable for PCs will fit, have to find one and try).

hope this helps!

GunsOfNavarone · Post by **GunsOfNavarone** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:17 pm

wow Kossi, thanks, I'll open mine up and try to patch it up this weekend.

EDIT: just opened it up and sure enough the middle wire had broken off the connector!

Kossi · Post by **Kossi** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:15 pm

so. my fix, quick and dirty:

works like a charm

edit:
if i had found one:
the connector of one of these vintage cables used to connect a cd-rom-drive with a soundblaster-soundcard should fit perfectly:
http://www.cablesdirect.com/prodimages/ANE-001_LR.jpg

Bigs · Post by **Bigs** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:23 pm

It's good to know that this is easy to fix, should it ever happen to me

kofla · Post by **kofla** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 8:06 pm

Hi!, I just fixed my MicroX following the information given here.

The result:

I used and old PC motherboard led cable. Its a little long but its works.

Its easy to do!!.

Thanks

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Micro X is acting weird

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