So you’re a guitarrist and then a string snaps… what do you do?
You just put another string on.
You’re an electronic musician and you’re trying your new piano library…
Then you realize some keys sound very loud and others don’t sound at all.
The culprit:
<- (click on it!) This little bugger is the keypad of an Edirol PCR-50 keyboard controller and it usually works fine… but one fine morning it didn’t.
So what’s one to do?
Well, you have to open it and clean it. And that means unscrewing, disassembling, removing the rubber pads and yadda yadda yadda…
It’s been a part of my music life to every once in a … 6 months perform this circus act on at least one of my keyboards.
The thing is that musical keyboard manufacturers have been using this technology for decades and it doesn’t look like they are going to change that in the near future.
There are 3 main manufacturing companies that provide keyboard pads to every other synth or keyboad controller manufacturer: Yamaha, Roland and Fatar (in order of quality).
Some people wouldn’t like to get their hands dirty and send it directly to the manufacturer but most musicians would rather fix it themselves.
Consider it as having to know about mechanics if you want to participate in a rally. Being stranded in the middle of nowhere is not a choice.
