DIY Synth Repair Guides
Step-by-step repair guides for vintage synthesizers and keyboards — replacing keys, cleaning potentiometers, rebuilding sliders, diagnosing power supplies, and more, from the Syntaur workshop.
Repair guides
- Removing Socketed IC Chips
- Cleaning Potentiometers
- Replacing Keys (Fatar-Style with lock-tab hole)
- Whitening Yellowed Keys
- How to Pack a Keyboard for Shipping (video)
- Calibrating an Arp Axxe Synthesizer
- Rebuilding Arp Sliders (video)
- Replacing Keys (Fatar-Style without hole)
- Replacing Rubber Contact Strips
- Opening Up an Ensoniq ASR-10 or TS-10 Keyboard
- Opening Up an Ensoniq EPS, EPS-16 Plus, plastic-case Mirage, ESQ-1, SQ-80, VFX, VFX-sd, or SD-1 Keyboard
- Repairing Ensoniq and Studiologic Panel Buttons
- Removing the Display Board from an Ensoniq ASR-10, ASR-88, TS-10, or TS-12 Keyboard
- Ensoniq ASR-10 Screw Guide
- Diagnosing an Ensoniq Power Supply
- Replacing EPROMs on the Ensoniq EPS
- Repairing an Ensoniq VFX showing Keyboard Calibration Error
- Opening Up a Korg Poly-61 Keyboard
- How to Replace and Repair Dead Keys on a Vintage Synthesizer Using K32U Keys
- Opening Up a Roland Juno-106 or HS-60 Keyboard
- Replacing Keys on a Roland Juno-106 or HS-60
- Calibrating a Roland Juno-106 or HS-60 Synthesizer
- Roland 88-note Keybed Cushions
- Using Part #3033 as a Yamaha SY22/35 Volume Slide Potentiometer