Repairing a Legendary Elka Synthex Analog Synthesizer
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Summary
Analog synthesizers, like the Elka Synthex are making a come back, as musicians yearn for the warm sounds produced by actual electronics, rather than digital perfection.
Fortunately for one Mend it Mark, a YouTube electronics repair vlogger, the company that made the Elka Synthex in the early 1980s still has the schematics and provided him with additional aid to fix a unit that had some broken keys and buttons.
all it took was some fault diagnosis, and replacement of some 74LS chips and he had the synth working perfectly again.
It topped off by him playing a tune from the 80s that it probably came from, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygène.
