Roland MC-505 Repairs

Hello!

This project took way more time than I planned and I actually ended up deciding to scrap about half of what I shot. But I should I should go back a bit to explain that more. This video is about repairing a Roland MC-505 that I was given. This is a device I've been after for years after getting my MC-303. The 303 is good, but the 505 takes it and makes it better in every imaginable way. And that MC-303 is something I've been using on a regular basis, so I've been really interested in getting the better version. So I am extremely excited now to have this one!

However, it needed a fair amount of work to make it usable again. These have some more common failures, and this one had just about every single one of them plus some other fun curveballs. So getting it working again was an adventure all on its own. I wanted to make sure to cover all these issues because these are still fairly desirable and it might be helpful for people to know how to work on them. But I did want to show off the device and what it can do too. I originally had shot and edited about 20 more minutes of video doing that, but this video was already really long and I didn't really want to make it a two parter with the 20 minutes I had done off the cuff. So I decided to narrow this one down to just the repair, but later I plan on making a fully scripted and researched video on this like I did the Roland SK-88 Pro. This thing deserves that kind of video and is very complicated and it would be a lot more concise with a script. So this one took a bit longer with all that and the last minute changes to how it would be talked about. But I figure I can give everyone here the second part of this video as a special extras video so I'll be getting that available here soon! It has some things in it that I may not cover in the scripted video, specifically comparing it to the MC-303. So that might be interesting on its own still.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/SBeay42hYs0