#dr220a

[mysynthfetish]

Failure... Success...

After I got the DR-220E, I saw this DR-220A on the auction for ¥2,000 being sold as 'junk' and thought what the hell, why not? I cleaned the leaked battery juice off the E, probably just another case of the same but more of it. Boy was I wrong...

I immediately knew I was in for a bad trip when I opened the battery compartment and was met with that. I plugged in a wall wart and turned it on but no luck, it was dead as fuck. So I opened it up to see how far the corrosion had gone.

There's the reverse side of the battery terminals in the second picture. If you look at the resistors on the left side, you can see corrosion. How far HAD the corrosion crept?

All the way through the traces on the PCB to the main IC. And see those down arrows? The corrosion had all but eaten the screws that used to be there. Holy fuck! It was the worst case of battery corrosion gone buck wild that I have ever seen. And the smell? Oof. I still haven't thrown it in the trash. Some silly part of me is like but but but maybe something can be salvaged? NOPE. The freakin traces on the PCB were BLACK. The corrosion had grown up out of the solder spots like a fungus or slime mold. Gnarly shit man!

I dunno if I posted this previously. I wanted one of these for ages. Saw one on Mercari (flea market app) for a reasonable price so I bought it. Fun synth. I saw someone on schmootube referred to it as the iSynth. Heh. Not quite up to the Apple design aesthetic methinks.

Got a few Aira Compact machines, a pair of S-1s and a T-8. Stuck knob caps from Thonk on 'em and they look and feel nicer now. S-1 is basically a 2020's MC-202 on steroids. T-8 is fun for what it is. The size and fun factor are big scorers here. They sound great as well.

Picked this up off the auction just to play some short C-64 voice synthesizer samples live in a gig I got coming up. Not sure how I feel about this thing. It'll do what I need it to so that's all I can ask I guess.

The Drum Mint!!! What a wee weirdo! Fun little shit. I can't believe people are baking shit like this up in their free time. Maniacs! Sounds ghetto as hell. Right up my alley.

Last but not least, the Elmyra 2. Bought the DIY kit off Thonk. Took about two and a half hours to solder together. Endless jacks and pots. Mind-numbing. Did it at work, since the school year is over and I have no more paid time off and there's feck all to do anyway. Very interesting machine. Definitely from some dark corner of outer space. Fun stuff.

[jordanssynths]

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[mysterybob]

Why did anybody bother continuing to make drum machines, when perfection was already reached in 1985? #boss #DrRhythm #dr220a https://www.instagram.com/p/CFhaBxPBfc5/?igshid=1jr6vguzsctvx

[waitingforzyo]

A collection of 7 tunes made with an original Commodore Amiga 600 an his 8bit sound engine. I used the famous tracker sofware Octamed and synced with the vintage drum machine Boss DR220a #commodore #amiga600 #octamed #retrocomputer #vintage #tracker #8bit #intrumental #80s #retrofunk #drummachine #boss #dr220a

[mintmania]

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[thisisnotinane]

Boss DR-220E

Versión electrónica de la DR220A, a diferencia de la versión acústica esta tiene su gracia, y sus toms, caja, bombo y palmas son bastante recomendables, obviamente dentro de la limitación propia de esta caja de ritmos. La calidad de sus samples no están nada mal (obviamente no es una DMX) y he escuchado y usado cajas de ritmo con peores samples. No tiene midi y la única forma de comunicarse con el exterior es a través de su entrada y salida mini-jack trigger.

En la actualidad es una caja de ritmos que se encuentra a un precio muy barato, si bien es cierto que la versión acústica está todavía más barata, pero es que no tienen nada que ver y esa versión es bastante prescindible.

Su tamaño, funda y sonido hacen una caja de ritmos muy interesante para sonidos ochentas-noventas, no en vano en algún foro la he llegado a ver anunciada como los “Simmons pobres..” :-O , bueno... ahí lo dejo..

En mi caso sale del estudio, porque como diria J, quiere probar algo nuevo.

[jordanssynths]

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