Key Contacts - Cleaning or replacing them

[parametric]

I'm posting this for information, purely as I am presently hoping to fix one non-working key on my recently acquired 6HD.

I've seen it mentioned elsewhere that the Fusion's keybeds use the same contacts for the 8HD and the 6HD - hopefully its true.

This site: www.bustedgear.com/part_key_contact_strip.html#KCS10 does have a step by step guide for the Roland D50 and the Korg Karma which is very well done, with good clear photos . . 

They also sell the contact strips - which look to me to be "right" for the Fusion as seen in a recent .pdf produced by a user in this or the other forum.

As regards Alesis, only Andromeda, Ion, and the QS Series are mentioned, sadly not the Fusion, but I am hopeful that the contact strips ARE the same . . . 

I shall enquire of Richard Diemer his opinion on this.

I think the above guides are very well done, and should give a good idea of how to get at the contacts, to repair or replace them as needed . . . 

How many different ways of assembling the keybed/pcb/contact strip can there be . . ?

Anyway - hope it helps someone . . . 

parametric

[Jesse]

Alesis Fusion affectionately known as "The Beast"

Chris, you might want to check with Taiho Yamada as well

[parametric]

Dec 22, 2016 1:24:33 GMT Jesse said:

Alesis Fusion affectionately known as "The Beast"

Chris, you might want to check with Taiho Yamada as well

I had a brief FB conversation with Taiho - wishing him well for 2017 . . . . 

In connection with the 8HD - he recalls TP-20 for the keybed from Fatar . . . Unsure about the 6HD, but suggests "contemporary" to the TP-20

As for the MIDI Data format - He has no documentation for it, but did wonder if anyone had tried reverse engineering to make an editor?

I imagine CS have got somewhere with it , but are probably unlikely to share what they have ?

Probably the only way is to send the standard commands one by one to the Fusion and see WHAT responds? - and write them down . . . . 

parametric

[Jesse]

Alesis Fusion affectionately known as "The Beast"
I thought psionic made some pretty good progress with the midi data

[parametric]

Thanks Jesse,

I need to catch up on Psionic and see where he's got to with that . . . . 

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