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 🤗
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?!?
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.
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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 🤗
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?!?
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.