Just bought one off ebay. Worked fine for a month. Now, the unit shows the Kawai startup info and then the screen distorts and the unit starts clicking. Any...
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Antoine Deschênes
antdes45
Mar 31, 2010 10:59 pm
You could try reworking all the solder joints on the PSU board. They're often cracked. -- Antoine Deschênes 2010/3/31 Jeff <jdelarm002@...> ... You...
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jonathan_01uk
Apr 1, 2010 12:28 pm
Could it be a flat battery?...
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Antoine Deschênes
antdes45
Apr 1, 2010 12:29 pm
I've never seen a K5 battery go dead as of yet, but yes, that could be the problem. ... -- Antoine...
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Robert Hill
writer245
Apr 1, 2010 1:45 pm
My K5 battery went dead a few years back. In the process of trying to pry it out so that I could replace it, the battery holder snapped off its soldered...
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Antoine DeschĂªnes
antdes45
Apr 1, 2010 1:56 pm
Note that the synth starts to act strange when RAM is corrupt. That could be signs of a dying battery, or too much SysEx transfers if the synth uses ROM V1.0....
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
May 13, 2010 5:22 pm
Hi guys! I just got a K5, at last! I was thinking about buying one of those old beasts since a long time; anyway, during the last 5 years I bought myself a...
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bill bigrig
billbigrig
May 13, 2010 9:50 pm
Howdy, If you run across an extra circuit board for the display and data wheel, (unfortunately, the main board), I'm interested. Rig...
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Beowolf
beowolf5552000
May 14, 2010 12:04 am
Hi, Just so I am clear are you asking for the main board as well as the display and data wheel? I have a K5 I started using for spare parts. If you are...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
May 14, 2010 12:43 am
can I run Overtone under windows XP, at least via a DOS emulator? is there any other software that enable resynthesis? greetings Fabio...
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joelbraverman
May 14, 2010 5:29 pm
Hi Fabio, welcome to K5Synth! -Joel...
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joelbraverman
May 14, 2010 5:35 pm
Here is a track of mine I recorded in 2001, featuring two K5's (panned hard left and right) and a soundfont of my old TR-606. This piece was made for a...
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joelbraverman
May 14, 2010 5:43 pm
Under Windows you can use the Atari ST emulator Steem to run a K5 editor (in the Files section). There are (unfortunately) no emulators for the Mac that...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
May 15, 2010 11:59 pm
my K5 has the well known 'no back-light' syndrome... could this be solved by adding a bit of soldering to the inverter in the MI-010 board or do I absolutely...
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Antoine DeschĂªnes
antdes45
May 16, 2010 12:05 am
Hi Fabio, First try to add solder, that sometimes work. Then, if that doesn't work, you could try a new backlight if the inverter still works (audible whine ...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
May 16, 2010 1:07 am
Hi Antoine, yes, I can hear a high pitched noise coming from the power supply zone, so I guess that the inverter is working?!?! now I need to ask a friend to...
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bill bigrig
billbigrig
May 17, 2010 9:47 pm
Howdy, Â Â Yes, All that stuff is on the big PCB. I tried changing the parts, but didn't do it right. Rig ... From: Beowolf <brujerman@...> Subject: RE:...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
Aug 7, 2010 2:08 am
I found this software from 1988 called 'Pro Sample Editor', made by Marc Grauss for JCD Midi Softs... it should be able to edit and send samples to the...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
Aug 19, 2010 11:55 am
ok, inverter soldering done and nothing happened; inverter checked: it was putting out something like 380v or so (not sure, anyway it was a high value), so it...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
Aug 19, 2010 1:48 pm
actually, the regulator was around 90/100v, not 380 :)...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
Aug 19, 2010 4:48 pm
wtf?! now it is working again... I switched on my K5 and left it on for a while (~1 hour) and everything was ok... then I switched it off and on a few times,...
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Antoine DeschĂªnes
antdes45
Aug 19, 2010 5:03 pm
Cold solder joints inside the inverter, which is filled with epoxy. (Can't be fixed.) There's a JKL inverter that has the same specs, but a different form...
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Alvaro Correa
vogel22
Aug 19, 2010 6:05 pm
Hi, friends, here you have: *Web page at Digi-Key* http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=289-1032-ND (page with replacement EL...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
Aug 19, 2010 9:36 pm
this will be definitely helpful! muchas gracias, Fabio...
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vogel22
Aug 27, 2010 5:15 am
Hello, amigos, this time I'm asking for your help: Have you ever seen some PC Editor for the k5? I mean something that I could use whitout spending money,...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
Aug 27, 2010 11:08 am
why? there are good editors for atari. use those ones....
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John Clegg
ritchieclegg
Sep 2, 2010 7:32 pm
Do a google on "Steem Engine" - I believe this lets you run Atari programs on the PC. In theory you can then run Atari software for K5 available from here:- ...
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Alvaro Correa
vogel22
Sep 3, 2010 5:37 pm
Thanks! I'll try this. Best regards...
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somethingkillingyou
somethingkil...
Oct 10, 2010 4:50 pm
Hi, I'm looking for a book that can be of some help when programming the K5 from scratch; somewhere in the www I found some references about a book, "Kawai K5...
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Wayne Griffin
ingsoc_1979
Oct 10, 2010 6:09 pm
I admire your tenacity - but do you remember perhaps a few years back when I told you the design is kind of a dead end ? the implementation of "additive"; on...
