OSCAR SYNTHESIZER - FITTING THE TAUNTEK MIDI BOARD AND OPERATING SYSTEM

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The OSCar is a fabulous monosynth designed and built by Chris Huggett. This was sold by the Oxford Synthesizer Company, which Chris setup together with Paul Wiffen. The superb industrial design was created by Anthony Harrison-Griffin.
My machine had been plagued with issues from day one. A major problem was the highly unreliable start up. The synth would not 'boot' and many power off/on cycles were needed to get it to work.
TAUNTEK have a new MIDI PCB and Operating System with may new features. I hoped this may fix my synth and make it useable aging. Here I detail my install of one of the first version of the Firmware.
The PCB needs to be built but many of the parts are readily found.
More details can be found at TAUNTEK
Special thanks to the folks on the OSCar freelists group and Bob Grieb.
(Video for information only. A qualified synth tech is always recommended for synth repair.)

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7 фев 2021

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Комментарии : 10

@sneakyalien101 3 месяца назад

Bob Grieb from Tauntek is an absolute genius and a nice guy. I had the pleasure of having my Digital Keyboards Synergy repaired by Bob and I sent the main boards of the Synergy to him. Many techs here in the UK would not touch the Synergy and seemed scared of it. Bob had it for a few days and totally repaired it all using about 0.000000001 % of his brain power lol. Boards came back to me and worked straight away. Bob Actually re-writes operating systems for synths in assembler for fun and improves the original manufacturers code and adds new features. Imagine the brain power to do that :) Very clever guy.

@waheex Месяц назад

yes 100% Many great rewrites of synth software. Adding new features and fixing annoying gripes

@Imsigma365 3 года назад

Nice tutorial, Keep it up! :D

@waheex 3 года назад

Thanks very much

@alancurrall 3 года назад

“In the interests of science” lol That final patch sounded pure evil! Loving these tear down and repairs, Alan. Keep ‘em coming!

@waheex 3 года назад

cheers Alan, any excuse to get the screwdriver out

@angaudlinn 3 года назад

Nice upgrade! Will probably look into it for my early and factory modded "brother". The CC-option sounds tempting.

@waheex 3 года назад

it's a great option I think and if you're handy with a soldering iron, quite easy to do.

@ThemFunnyLookinGuys 2 года назад

How did you get in contact with Tauntek? The email posted on their site is seemingly dead

@waheex 2 года назад

hi I think for me the mail worked ok when I last tried, but you can try looking for the OSCar Yahoo group and they are super helpful.Tauntek may be also on there