Nord Lead 3 Pitch-bend peculiarness

[Loonie]

Hi folks,

Have any Nord Lead 3 (and I suppose Nord Lead anything) owners experienced any strangeness with the pitch bend lever sending spurious data when it's not being touched? And I don't mean minuscule offsets, I'm talking quite audible. I started noticing it last night, There I was blaming poor ol' energyXT at first, then I suddenly noticed a very active MIDI indicator, despite the lack of anything happening. Recording it revealed it to be pitch bend data

Since it's some elaborate stress-sensing strip instead of a crappy pot, there's no quick replace or track-cleaning tricks. All the solder joints look solid enough.

Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?

[blue hell]

Hi Loonie, welcome.

People have been reporting such here before ... sometimes the thing breaks and needs to be replaced.

[Loonie]

I see. At least it sounds as straightforward as replacing a standard potentiometer, once you actually have the part. Thanks, BH. I had best locate a decent source of replacement parts for Canada.

Wow, my first Nord control replacement! Does that mean it's a vintage synth now?

[Wout Blommers]