Roland VS Recorders, MC-307 & MV-8000 MV8800 Transport button repair
Faulty Play Stop Record FF RW Buttons As these units age, more and more start showing up in “Great Condition, but being sold as/is”. Not knowing any better I hopped on a hundo dollar deal for a Roland MC-307 that…
Cleaning Yellowed Knobs, Buttons, & Controls for Roland VS-890 VS-880
This procedure will also work for yellowed MC-303, MC-307, Etc. First off I have to give credit to 8-Bit Guy for this mod. 8-Bit Guy mainly focuses on old computers but is a huge keyboard fan and his vids are…
Roland VS890 VS880 Disassembly & Opened Up
Taking Apart & Opening a Roland VS-890 From the top to the bottom, bottom to the top. Pull out all the screws circled in pink and the the two screws pointed at in the bottom left. You should now be…
Refurbishing the Roland VS890
The DIY for repair, cleaning and Refurbishing a Roland VS-890 and VS-880 I think the easiest way to do this refurbish and DIY for another to repair their unit is to break it into parts. –Cleaning the Roland VS-890 VS-880–Disassembly…
Zoom RT-223 Internal Battery
Recently purchased a Zoom RT-223 drum machine from “jeff” on eBay. His listing said:POWERS UP SAYS ZOOM NOTHING WORKS.DO A FACTORY RESET, HOLD RECORD WILE POWERING UP IT WORKS FINE.BUT IT WILL NOT REMEMBER ANY PATTERNS OR CHANGES YOU MADE.PROBABLY…
Roland VS-1824 Compact Flash Mod
This mod has been well documented over the years over hundreds of threads on the VS forums. The problem is you have to read hundreds of threads, comments, mis-information, etc. After reading through all the B/S, I have done this…