RE: VORTEX knobs and pots

["James Winger" <jdwinger@hotmail.com>]

I'm *ASSUMING* they are not the same encoders used in the high end units

There was that product line (Vortex/Reflex/Alex - Jamman to some extent) 
that was aimed at a lower price-point.  I think they were cutting costs 
(pretty much no midi, etc).  Encoders, I suspect is where they cut costs 
(mechanicals can be costly)

there is probably a higher-quality counterpart - these are 6 pin encoders.

I don't remember the encoders having the be soldered to both sides of the 
board, but it has been a couple of years.









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I contacted Lexicon about the rotary encoders. I know they use this kind
of encoders in mostly all of their devices, and the ones on the e.g.
PCM91 or 81 "feel" much better, allthough they might be of a different
type. But it would  be interesting whether the originals can be replaced
by higher quality ones. But maybe the Vortex circuit board's layout
isn't compatible. But if you do excessive programming/ editing, you use
this rotarys a lot, and I see a reason why they are worn out, if they're
not high quality. Maybe the Lexicon Support has an answer. Or one of you
list members...


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