I am seeing this with my Novachord which is now extremely rare as so many went to the dumpster - terrible considering it was the FIRST polyphonic synth designed in 1937 (it contains 163 valves!) and only 1069 were ever made in the first place!
Surely it is our responsibility to keep as many of these wonderful samplers in as near original state as possible, not chop them up and rack them or even spray them black....
Do a cut and shut on your EII and you WILL regret it in 10 years time!
I can't beleive you have a novachord that thing is soooo coool
Yes - it's for real - it's one hell of a beast but it will require some 2-4 years of part time engineering work to replace 1000 capacitors and several hundred resistors to make it stable enough to record with. If you were to pay a tech to do this you'd part with a 5 figure number! This is not an instrument you buy in the hope that it just might work properly - it won't! What makes it worse is that all of the caps are custom values which means you have to select the right capacitance by wiring two in parallel - so in reality it's more like 2000 capacitors
That said - the final result is truely unique!
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