By abstrusecarp
Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:44 am
I understand if you want to mock me or laugh because I completely screwed up something that is actually quite easy but it's done now so let's just get that out the way. I'm an idiot and I don't deserve this fine piece of equipment
So the short is i burnt the pcb replacing a tactile switch, I started on numeric key just to see if I could do it (clearly not) and I burnt part of the board. I thought oh it's fine I can live with out the numeric key and I counted it as a loss and put the soldering iron down.
Now here's the worst bit the line from numeric is directly linked to the track mute switch....
Now my track mute button doesn't work and that is no doubt the most crucial button for me as everything I make revolves around track mutes.
I have a few questions or solutions that I could go for but I need advice from the internet hivemind.
1. I completely say **** it and buy a whole new upgraded pcb from mpcstuff for a pretty hefty price plus shipping + customs to the UK.
2. I try and mod the pcb with some copper wire and link up the track mute to another key that I don't use like next sequence or something.
3. I use a midi device to control my mpc purely for track mute. However I don't see an option for this on the free version of JJOS 3.16. But on the os2xl version I could assign a key to a midi device.
4. I keep soldering the board until there's nothing left.
Any help or advice is greatful and yes I know I'm a huge idiot
So the short is i burnt the pcb replacing a tactile switch, I started on numeric key just to see if I could do it (clearly not) and I burnt part of the board. I thought oh it's fine I can live with out the numeric key and I counted it as a loss and put the soldering iron down.
Now here's the worst bit the line from numeric is directly linked to the track mute switch....
Now my track mute button doesn't work and that is no doubt the most crucial button for me as everything I make revolves around track mutes.
I have a few questions or solutions that I could go for but I need advice from the internet hivemind.
1. I completely say **** it and buy a whole new upgraded pcb from mpcstuff for a pretty hefty price plus shipping + customs to the UK.
2. I try and mod the pcb with some copper wire and link up the track mute to another key that I don't use like next sequence or something.
3. I use a midi device to control my mpc purely for track mute. However I don't see an option for this on the free version of JJOS 3.16. But on the os2xl version I could assign a key to a midi device.
4. I keep soldering the board until there's nothing left.
Any help or advice is greatful and yes I know I'm a huge idiot