The synthesizer stack grows ever taller, this time with the addition of a Roland XV-5050 rack-mount module. It's much smaller than a synth with an attached keyboard as it's designed to be used with a separate external MIDI keyboard or sequencer, which I'll elaborate on in a future blog post.
For now, though, I need to get it to actually work as I did, of course, purchase it with those four magic words "For Parts Or Repair".
This time the culprit was lead-free solder leading to a manufacturing defect where a number of the pins on the DSP that runs all the audio weren't properly connected to the PCB. Thankfully I just got a fancy new soldering iron so this gave me a great excuse to take it for a spin.
The end result is a working module full of sounds that I will have a wonderful time exploring.
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