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Synthfilter: Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, keys not firing issue

Charlie Lesoine — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:36:13 -0800

Synthfilter: Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 giving me problems: keys not playing notes, but silicone contacts are clean and working. Looking to be directed to the right person/place/forum to ask or maybe someone here can help I have recently become the owner of a Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 which has been in a box since 1987. It is having an issue with the key mechanisms properly hitting the keyboard contact strips. When I powered it on, only three of the highest far right keys worked so I opened it up and cleaned the contact strips then plugged the keyboard circuit board back into the synth without reattaching the actual keys in order to test it. The rubber keyboard contacts fire notes just fine when depressed with a finger but for some reason when attached to the actual keyboard mechanism, most but not all are failing to fire. The top couple and the bottom three play and a few in between but that's it. The plastic keys don't seem to be warped or anything, it just looks like when they push the plungers down that they aren't descending far enough down in order to complete the circuit. I suspect this has something to do with it because I am able to make more of the keys play if I push down on the end of keys nearest circuit board, in other words the end of the key opposite to where you would normally hit it. I'm thinking maybe I can attach little pieces of cardboard to the bottom of the keys where they touch they silicone contacts so that they push down a little more, but I don't want to screw this instrument up...Anyone seen this issue before or know a better place/person/forum to ask? Any ideas?

Who hears voices in their heads? Why?

cortex — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:08:18 -0800

Voices in your head. What mental disorders are associated with this? What other phenomena? Which historical and mythical figures? I'm working on a novel, and one of my central characters is just coming to terms with the abnormality of a voice in her head. I'm looking for angles and ideas. She's going to talk to a shrink, probably have a sit down with a priest (family is Catholic), and I'm looking for other folks she might talk to and some of the things they might throw at her, along with the sorts of things she might trip across in her own research.

I want to cover everything. Psychiatry, religion, and every other phenomenology y'all can muster. Details are awesome, but jumping-off points and references are welcome and probably more than a panicked writer deserves.

Help me interpret cryptic Bible verse references.

crazy finger — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:13:22 -0800

Any biblical scholars out there? I got spooked out this morning by a suspicious person. More inside! This morning I went to the beach (in New Hampshire, USA- it was cold and windy) before work to take pictures and wander around. I eventually walked to a sandy beach where I could see a man frantically pacing around. When I got to the breaker wall, I saw him standing in his sneakers in ankle-deep water and bowing and speaking to the ocean with his arms outstretched. I thought it was strange so I watched out of the corner of my eye. Shortly thereafter, he noticed me and hurried off the beach and into a car and sped away.

I thought it was strange, and then I saw that he had written a LOT of stuff below the high-tide mark on the beach with a small plastic fork. A lot of what he wrote was in code or had scrambled letters and words and upside down characters and strange notations. Basically, though, he quoted Luke 4:12 "Thy shalt not tempt thy Lord God" as well as Luke 17:1 which reads "but woe unto him, through whom they come!" He drew a circle with the words "I am" in it and around that circle wrote "woe woe weo." He also drew a big "X" near the word "job" and a line to the word "DOG."

I got the impression that something wasn't quite right, but I don't know. Anybody have any ideas?