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First post, by mache

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Hello Friends,

I've just bought a great MIDI Box, a German planned, China produced MIDI-USB external wavetable.

Official webpage:
https://miditech.de/en/portfolio/pianobox-usb/

It has cost less than 80 euro, second hand.
Yesterday I've found a brand new one for 70 EURO 😀

Very nice equipment, joy to use it.
You can find some promo test videos on Youtube channel.

I atteched the new instrument to my Win 10 x64 laptop via virtual drivers.
I tried to fresh the firmware, but had run to error, PianoBox stepped to a shadow world...
I spent a week to solve the unfinished firmware upgrade.
Finally successfully finished it by advices of a great guy from the support team.

So, I cleaned it from dust, and it's fresh, shiny and brighter than ever.

After the first, uscuccesfull FW update I decided to look inside th Box, when it could not working.
I prepared a star war plan to identify how to change the FW flash ROM IC if inevitable (Mr. Anderson).

Now I'd like to share some pictures and datas with you.

The Circuit Boards:
1. The Mainboard with the microcontroller unit, the flash ROM, the RAM, the preamp/Line in circuits and the connectors.
2. The mini WaveTable DaughterBoard with[attachment=-1]20210222_120354.jpg[/attachment].
3. The UI board with the LED screen and operating buttons.

...
It's crazy to attach pictures. 1/2 hour uploading a 1.5MB pic.
A spent the whole day to try to attach some photos to the post.
And after a long attach trying and an error I had to restart making the post, 3 times...
Could someone help?

I share them on Google, but I'm afraid, I will delete them in this year.
So, some of you could place the pictures here.
Thank you.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/oUNuqcA7rKvqyP2w7

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