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I got two of these, one is a TD-7 and one is a TD-8. They seem to respond to input but do not make sound. The little "trigger" light lights up.

I also have one of another brand that only puts out sound through the headphone jack.

I am comoing up with a blank finding prints fro these. Anyone know any common failure oes or whatever, or worked on a bunch of them ? Need a couple of tips.

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jurb6006
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Something you may have already checked:

A lot of stuff that makes noise and has MIDI outputs has different operating modes:

  1. When you play it, make noise and send the related MIDI message
  2. When you play it, make noise only, no MIDI
  3. When you play it, no noise, only send the related MIDI message

PDF page 15 (paper page 13) of

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suggests that the TD-7, at least, can do #3. That page has the setting for #3, and the default setting that makes it do #1.

There is a "master reset" (PDF page 135, paper page 133) that should put everything back to defaults, but if the customer has customized some of the patches (sounds) or other settings, those will be lost.

In general, with stuff from this era, you fight the fact that it has a very wide range of settings, coupled with a tiny character LCD and a couple of buttons as the user interface. You *can* get to and change all of the settings from that interface... it just takes a while.

Matt Roberds

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mroberds

Also, the first hit on

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, which coughs up a PDF.

That site (and some others I tried) don't have a TD-8 manual. There are a couple of sites that want to sell you the manual, but they could be the ones that just sell you the owners manual (which you can download for free from Roland).

Matt Roberds

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mroberds

I found one in the garbage, I can't remember the model number.

It didn't work initially, but after I pulled out the connectors and reconected, it worked fine. So check for that.

Michael

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Michael Black

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