How to repair a midi keyboard (Edirol PCR-80)

This video shows you how repair dead keys on a midi keyboard and get them to work again.
Do not attempt to repair yourself, if you still have a valid warrenty.

If you experience some keys are still not working, clean the black dotted contact surfaces on the electronic. This can happen if you put too much graphite on the electronic board. Do not clean the rubberband. Test again, and they should give sound again.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Music
• keyboard
• midi
• repair
• how to
• Edirol
• Roland
• Controller
• PCR-80
• PCR
• USB
• ableton
• fix
• dead keys
• no warranty

[EIZODK]

I found a company in the US, that can provide spareparts for EDIROL keyboards, and other brands. It seems I'm not allowed to post the direct link here to the website, but if you use these keywords in a search engine, you should be able to find the site.

bubble contacts spare part syntaur edirol

Best regards

[EIZODK]

I'm so exited to see that many have taken this method in use, to repair their keyboards, and I send my best regards to everyone who posted messages on this video.

With regards to "simplerecordiing", if you have any information you would like to share, as to where it is possible to get these spareparts (rubbermembranes) it would be much appriciated!

My keyboard was out of warranty. It took me about 2 hours and saved me $400, hence I would have bought a new, so the effort was worth it.

[TheCrackpotRealist]

Brilliant!! Thank you!!



[reneottenn]

hi thnx you so much, i first didnt want to believe but i tried and it worked. 1 question: for how long it works?

[assemblism]

Some keys have come back to life and the velocity works better now on my Edirol PCR-1. HAIL, EIZODK, HAIL, 60c PENCIL. I feel like I should go around the neighbourhood on hard rubbish collections, looking out for old keyboards.

[gerhintz]

Hats off for the contribiutor/s. But the solution provided don't deal with root of the problem. It is clear that Edirol PCR series (at least) some of them have Mfr defect - contact layer simply vanishes with a time without any relevance to how long ut was played (mine 10h) 20% of keys aren't usable after 5 yers We need to reqest Roland to replace the kybs. affected by the defect. Once I setup the website which will pressure Roland to take responsiblity for their products I will report back

[donthomas76]

With the help of this video I restored my dead midi keyz thanks a lot

[OriammariO1]

@OriammariO1 Sorry i take the previous comment back the problem was that i was using circular strokes instead of straight strokes.

[OriammariO1]

Help I tried that and it didn't work, instead most of them stopped working , please help

[protomassive]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "Stencil Pen"...

He means a mechanical pencil. But it need not be a mechanical pencil.. You just want a pencil with a Led that is hard, not soft, like those found in such mechanical pencils. So, a no.2 does not work. You need the hard led..with more graphite, less oil.. . I found a Ticonderoga rated "2H"... thats the hardest. It cost a whopping $ 0.35. 1st Clean the contacts real good, 2nd pencil them in like they were the S.A.T.'s...& Fixed!!!! Finally....

[zayolin88tlalticpac]

Its alive !!!!!!! did what you showed and my old M80 came back to life

(used a simple pencil) thanks bro!