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Roland S-10 Project Machine

“This keyboard is being sold ‘as is’ so no returns.

This Roland keyboard from the 80s is essentially broken, but may be repairable for somebody with the right skills, or perhaps you can use the parts.

There are no accessories, not even a power cable (a standard kettle plug cable will work – no need of a special power supply). No manual and the box will be for a different keyboard.

So, it’s not working, but here’s the state of it. Cosmetically it is generally good for its age. A bit of paint on it, and some dust etc. Could do with a bit of cleaning, but otherwise decent, no major dents or anything. On powering up, the LCD display comes to life and appears working. The disk drive makes a constant whirring noise which is annoying, and I suspect that it is faulty. However I have never had the appropriate disk to load into it, but given the noise it is not functioning correctly. So without disks, standard operation of this keyboard is untested by me, so possibly does not work, however I have been able to hook it up via midi and use it to control other sound modules and it works fine in that regard. All the keys, the pitch-bend work perfectly sending out full midi. The keyboard seems close to 100%, with no dead keys. I’ve had a quick check of the midi out for touch sensitivity and it appears good.

Addendum: A punter asked is the sampling worked. I hadn’t tested it, but now have and can confirm that it seems to work perfectly. I haven’t tried all the features, but have easily sampled sounds and played them. Of course without the disk drive working, one cannot save them, but this part of the keyboard is good.” Click here to visit listing on eBay