Members mattinkent Posted May 29, 2018 Members Share Posted May 29, 2018 After an enforced layoff, I fired up my XP-30 and it worked fine the first three times I turned her on. Fourth time, the screen went blank (still illuminated) and although the button lights are behaving as if everything is fine, there's no sound at all - except for the odd distorted screech. I managed to do a factory reset (I think) but still no luck... Anyone have any idea what's up? Is it worth getting it repaired (who would be able to fix it?) or have a lost a good friend? Any help gratefully received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted May 30, 2018 Members Share Posted May 30, 2018 Oh wow, I've had one of these for 19 or 20 years. Great keyboard and I'd used it a lot. Mine is currently over at the practice space but I haven't been over there to use it since I put in notice to the band to be looking for a replacement back in February. I may be over there in June when I think they may have an audition or two lined up and I'll be taking mine home. It was working fine and I wouldn't expect it to have any problems. If a master reset isn't helping the first thing I would want to check would be the power supply but I wouldn't really want to start on that without the service manual/schematics. Before I had this one I had an older JV-30 and I was able to get the service info on that one directly from Roland. As an electronic technician by trade I don't think twice about tearing into things like this and probing around but in your case this may not be an option. In all honesty I don't really foresee using mine much at this point, I've long since acquired newer keyboards with greatly expanded sound memory and storage and it's likely that I wouldn't even spend much time trying to fix mine if it were to break down. I'd probably write mine off as depreciated out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted June 5, 2018 Members Share Posted June 5, 2018 Is there a service center near you that fixes Roland or is authorized? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mattinkent Posted June 15, 2018 Author Members Share Posted June 15, 2018 Not been able to find anyone - a few won't touch it due to age. Is there a central list of Roland engineers somewhere? I'm in the UK...I know there's a US list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted June 15, 2018 Members Share Posted June 15, 2018 There appears to be a place that carries a lot of parts for some of these old Roland synths here: https://syntaur.com/roland_xp.html . I don't know anything about them myself but looking at the parts list there gave me the idea that changing the lithium battery in the keyboard might be a good next step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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