Last night I decided to take apart my Nord Lead 2 synthesizer so that I could give it a clean. As I was taking it apart I decided that it would be a good idea to get pictures of it naked, as I know how much everyone likes looking at circuits.
If your curious about the main specs of the Nord Lead 2 I would recommend having a look at them at Planet Groove.
Here is the main outputs of the synth. Starting on the very left there is a PCMCIA slot for adding more storage so that more patches can be stored. Next along we have the usual MIDI in and out ports. The next 2 1/4 inch jack inputs are for a sustain and control pedal. After these 2 inputs we have 4 outputs that are used to output for each of the 4 voices as the Nord Lead 2 is 4 part multitimbral.
Once the screws were loosened the top cover could be slid off to reveal the main circuitry which is made up of a power supply convertor and another section that is for the synthesis and other DSP.
Above can be seen the main circuitry for the power supply.
Above can be seen the main synthesis circuitry. You can see the slot for the PCMCIA on the right. The ribbon controller at the bottom is connected to all the pots on the front panel of the Nord. Just above the ribbon controller is a marked chip which stores the firmware. This can be replaced is it is a DIL package.
The picture above shows the back of the front panel and the Potentiometers that are connected to the front for knob twiddling. The ribbon controller can be seen that was mentioned earlier.
Once the screws that attach the input circuitry to the front panel have been removed You can then see all the chips and switches that are part of the front. Most likely these chips are for multiplexing the controls.
Well I hope you enjoyed this. I’m sorry if some of the pictures are a little fuzzy or have a flash in them but I have a rubbish camera. Anyway thanks for looking at this. Until the next time ;)
0 comments:
Post a Comment