Well, I could, but I've been advised by a much wiser man to just give out a hint of his initials, which in turn resemble an old house music oriented Japanese thingy... ;-)
Yes, you guessed. I felt so let down and cheated that I actually had to find a German-speaking attorney-at-law. It's the principle: you just don't goddamn cheat your synth fellows and that's it. I'm not willing to part with my malfunctioning Matrix, I just want some of my helluvalotta euros back.
Does anyone have any idea where to get a few keys for the keyboard and how to adjust the modulation levers? And where, oh, where, could I find a few oscillators? All hints are still welcome.
Of course I could go for a heavy route and strip the Matrix down, sell its parts and start looking for another. What do you think? Is anybody in need of parts? :-)
-P.
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--- In xpantastic@..., "eggwheatis" <phil@...> wrote:
Sorry to hear this, you could at least name and shame the scammer?
I was offered a Matrix 12 recently from Germany...when I asked questions about sending photos of test screens he went dead on me...
-- In xpantastic@..., "mursupeppe" <petri.alanko@> wrote:
Hi there,
I'm probably _NOT_ the only one in desperate need, but I'd really, really like to find one or two CEM3374 chips for my Matrix-12 project. I bought from a German guy, insisting everything in it is all right, but it turned out it had "quite a few" problems, among which:
- dead left output
- Midi Out and Thru terminals are quite badly corroded (!)
- at least one CEM3374 is gone, the second one is being tested today
- two CEM3372s are dead
- 13 push buttons are totally dead
- 4 of the rotary encoders are what I call beyond dead
All this with a "yez it'z a perffecktly funkzionink" Matrix-12. :-D Ok, it was relatively cheap and I could turn it into a 6-voice thingy, but that would destroy the profound essence of its beauty. But still I find it very tempting to drive a few kilometers and visit the guy with some ugly motorist friends of mine.
(I know. Violence is _not_ an answer, an aggressive lawyer is. If anyone knows a good German-speaking lawyer, let me know. ;-D Thank goodness I saved all the seller's emails where he was insisting it was a perfectly good, like new.)
Also, I've noticed it has sometimes "a bit" trouble tuning itself, so I'm afraid there are quite a few logic chips malfunctioning as well. How, dear Xpantastic acquaintances, should I start troubleshooting my Matrix - other than doing chip-swapping, which is being done as we spe... write.
-Peter
