I don't have any issues on the encoders BUT I prefer the clicky ones (like the patch/page one) so I'm gonna switch all of the smooth ones with dented ones 🤗
Unfortunately not exactly. But it must have been somewhere in the range of 2016/17. As this is the difference in manufacturing-times of my two Blofelds. The keyboard is from late 2016 and the desktop is from early 2017.
@@StefanFendt Thanks, all 3 of my Blokeys and 1 module are pre-2016. Probably ALPS, but one of the Blokeys is worn from 7 years of front panel editing. It is the encoder to the right and below the screen. I was thinking of replacing just this one encoder, as it is really, really worn!
Well, I guess after seven years of intense usage it is perfectly OK that an encoder starts to show defects. But my keyboard-Blo was a different story. It had the encoders "worn out" right from the start... Depending on how good your repair-skills are, you might consider replacing that encoder. At least I would do it, if it were my Blofeld. Yes, one can use an editor instead, but at least I find my best sounds by turning real knobs... So a worn out encoder would be a real hindrance to me. Also: The Blofeld is (from my experience) one of the more repair-friendly devices I have seen from the inside. Despite the power-switch and the fact that the encoders itself are really not that easy to get out of the mainboard it's a really repair-friendly (and robust) design.
I have a blofeld desktop with encoders that aren't as responsive as I would like them to be and they appear to be the same encoders at 3:17 of your video. Where did you get your replacement encoders?
Sorry for the late response as well... there must have something changed with YT's "alarm"-mechanism. I usually get informed, when a new response arrives... but not this time?!?
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I don't have any issues on the encoders BUT I prefer the clicky ones (like the patch/page one) so I'm gonna switch all of the smooth ones with dented ones 🤗
Do you happen to know what year (month?) they switched encoders on the Blofeld keys?
Unfortunately not exactly. But it must have been somewhere in the range of 2016/17. As this is the difference in manufacturing-times of my two Blofelds. The keyboard is from late 2016 and the desktop is from early 2017.
@@StefanFendt Thanks, all 3 of my Blokeys and 1 module are pre-2016. Probably ALPS, but one of the Blokeys is worn from 7 years of front panel editing. It is the encoder to the right and below the screen. I was thinking of replacing just this one encoder, as it is really, really worn!
Well, I guess after seven years of intense usage it is perfectly OK that an encoder starts to show defects. But my keyboard-Blo was a different story. It had the encoders "worn out" right from the start...
Depending on how good your repair-skills are, you might consider replacing that encoder. At least I would do it, if it were my Blofeld. Yes, one can use an editor instead, but at least I find my best sounds by turning real knobs... So a worn out encoder would be a real hindrance to me.
Also: The Blofeld is (from my experience) one of the more repair-friendly devices I have seen from the inside. Despite the power-switch and the fact that the encoders itself are really not that easy to get out of the mainboard it's a really repair-friendly (and robust) design.
I have a blofeld desktop with encoders that aren't as responsive as I would like them to be and they appear to be the same encoders at 3:17 of your video. Where did you get your replacement encoders?
I directly ordered them from Waldorf Germany. It was about 30 bucks if I recall correctly.
Sorry for the late response as well... there must have something changed with YT's "alarm"-mechanism. I usually get informed, when a new response arrives... but not this time?!?