Ouch.
I really feel for you. I know what you're going thru and it sucks. That older gear sounds fantastic and you want to play it forever, but you just cant.
I went thru the same thing but with an old Memorymoog converted to a plus, except my problem was that I had to hit the autotune button 3-4 times a SET. It had me stymied. I couldnt find anyone in the US who even wanted to touch it, Big Briar had folded and the only guy that was doing any work was half of Big Briar - located in Germany - and at the time he wanted $5k to work on it, modify it from a Plus back to a standard Memorymoog and shipping to and from Germany (yeah. right. Ship a Memorymoog in any case - I did have a flite case tho - to Germany and back). I got lucky and got $500 for it for the parts....

Good luck with your OB-Xa.

Bim

--- In oberheim@yahoogroup s.com , Charles Massey <cmassey@... > wrote:

>
> Tim,
>
> I hate to rain on your parade but this machine will drive you
> insane...... ... I ended up giving mine away after spending a fortune
> on it trying to keep it playing and in tune. It was wonderful when it
> was working but......... ....
>
> I ended up buying two Matrix 6R's and an Xpander. They were all very
> good sounding and were absolutely no trouble, even after over 20 years
> of service.
>
> FWIW
>
> Charlie in Florida
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Timmy wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had a perfectly functional OB-Xa which I turned on today and now I
> > get no sound. After turning it on the Patch 1 light blinks several
> > times (like a bad voice in auto-tune would blink) and then nothing
> > happens.
> >
> > LEDs are lit on the board, but pushing buttons does not do anything,
> > meaning none of the functions work, pressing any buttons won't make
> > them light, etc..). No sound comes from the outputs.
> >
> > Any ideas
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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