yoyz2k
February 27, 2023, 5:00pm
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On the hardware side, the OT share lots more with the MD/MnM than with the newer Rythm/A4.
Just look at the PCB.
I pulled apart my MD-UW to make it an MD-UW+ and took pictures.
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Back of the control board. Three cables to connect to the other boards.
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CPU board, PSU, and input/output daughter board.
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Internal power supply
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Not sure what that says. Closest Google search is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards but not spelled completely backwards
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Samsung chips on CPU board
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CPU an…
So to start out I bought my Monomachine MK1 second hand a little over two years ago, It was my first Elektron box and I absolutely fell in love with it the day I laid my hands on it. Since then I use my MNM frequently, Even though I went on to get all of the other Elektron boxes (OT should be here in a week!) I still use my MNM in almost everything I do so I was pretty devastated when it broke.
Basically I turned it on a couple of nights ago and after a few minutes it froze (never had that happ…
Today, for your entertainment, the Elektron Analog Four will shamelessly expose itself. Or rather, I took it apart and snapped naughty, naughty photos, even some thermal pics for good measure.
So anyway, I recently had to take my Access Virus TI keyboard apart for troubleshooting, and in the process I took some tasty thermal images which you can find over at The Virus TI Forums .
The bottom line was that the Virus TI was mostly a clean build, with few bodge wires i.e. they had to manually fix s…
You have always this coldfire Motorola CPU for the core to boot the system and bring the OS up and running.
But the DSP5630 for MD/MnM/OT and the Spartan and analog chip for the A4/Rythm.
And PCB layout are quite different, could be completely another team which made it.
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