Sorry @hainbach it was screaming for a hainbach style thumbnail haha. but yeah in all seriousness this was from a recovery we were doing, i have no idea how it hadn't been completely corroded where it was in a pile but luckily avoided the leaks! and luckily the box of parts was in the vicinity of the actual keyboard! how good is that! phew it works!

Why does it make me so happy to see a dead instrument come to life?! Well done sir.

It's like NES Castlevania in a synth. I bet bloody tears would sound wild on that thing

Apparently the keyboard player of The Yakometties is called Rich Munday, and he seems to be still active in Bristol as a sound engineer/technical manager. Maybe he can be contacted to confirm this Delta is his old baby.

Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, FLASH ! Ahh-ahh, he saved all the synthesizers

I will never fly but if i ever ended up on a ship to the UK your museum is the first spot i go to.

Having a piece of your old equipment be successfully repaired by a KZfaqr must be one of the greatest accomplishments a Russian rock band can aspire to.

I appreciate anyone who takes an old synth like this and restores it and makes it useful again. Well done!

Guys, I have a hunch that he might be knowing what he's doing...

I love when old synths come back to life!!

Shoutout to Triez! Nice rebuild man :D

Oh a KORG from my era. Great video 2x👍

String machines are such charming relics of a time long past. They still have such an appealing, recognizable sound though.

On the Yakometties song "Interference" here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rN2edMiCl5m6j58.html at 3 minutes, there is a still of them on stage. There is a Korg synth which looks like it could be this one. The power cord has the same bend in it near the top, though they possibly all have that from being wrapped around the cord hooks. Great to see this one bought back to life, Sam, and making cool sounds once again.

You are a true hero! I love your job of collecting, saving and restoring good old machines.❤ Just one crazy idea, how about more kits from the old electronics magazines?! I found a percussion synthesizer in Practical Electronics from 198 ……. four-ish that look intriguing and are trying to at least clone the pcb, but the prints I have aren’t the super-best.

God bless Sir Berners-Lee and the creators and maintainers of the forum and the guy who posted the repair info.

Every one of these synth videos brings me one step closer to learning to play the keyboard. Getting awful close now.

I've just realised that Sam has never accepted sponsors on this channel. Must be the museum and the tours that allow him to make videos.

The Delta is a wonderful synth! Glad you got it up and running! I'm fortunate enough to have a Trident Mk I. The previous owner added a MIDI in to it. Beautiful sounding synth.

Finally, a restoration video involving something other than watching someone remove the mud and fake rust that they themselves covered it in.

Korg's Delta is an analog semi-poly synth/string machine, basically a slimmed down version of the Korg Trident. Though limited in the range of sounds compared with other synths of the same genre, the sheer quality of the sound from this little beastie really does make it something of a marvel. It can be found used for cheap and is worth it for the retro synth strings and fat bass synth tones. The synth is split into two sections, Strings and Synth, for which there are separate audio outputs along with a combined output for headphones or mixing. Each section has its own controls. The String section has two pitch sliders (16' and 8') along with two tone controls (Bass and Treble) and variable Attack and Release controls to modify the sound. The Synth section has four pitch sliders (16', 8', 4' and 2'). There is also a white noise generator along with a very effective 24dB/oct low pass filter (high pass and band pass options are included too) and full ADSR controls. The synth has no memory storage or MIDI, however it does has voltage control and gate ins and outs. The string sounds are very basic but with its separate outputs and when mixed together with the polysynth you do get that classic 'layered' sound which is useful enough on this synth; and it's fully polyphonic, so you wont be running out of notes! There is a handy joystick to the left of the 49-note keyboard for pitch bending and modulation capabilities. The construction is solid and heavy partly due to the implementation of a wooden base but also because it was designed for heavy usage on the road. Added bonuses: noise modulation, stereo out (strings/synth split), and the ability to combine synth and strings or turn off oscillators in the mixer section.

I love your analog monster masterpieces. You are very inspirational so keep at it!

Looked as it were fresh from a 90's NIN concert. Great job!

very organic sounds

I just love the sound of oldschool string machines.

A reverse tear down would be a tear up, right?

Nicely recombobulated! Looks and sounds lovely now.

Nice piece of music gear. And a nice job bringing it back to life. You gotta make some records with it.

You always chill me out dude. . I havent measured my heartbeat but supporting wierdy solder athelites , is there a 100 pin solder record. An unscrewing record. Im lost in a world of wires and i love it.

That synth is delightfully charming! Well done on bringing it back.

what a BEAUTIFUL machine!!!! You've done SUCH a GOOD THING by bringin her back to life! - You REALLY DO ROCK!!!! GOOD JOB!!! and THANK YOU for sharing this WONDERFUL work of art with us! :)

Am sure many synthheads have had a happy dream finding a discarded classic synth at least once, you are certainly most deserving, somewhat of a genius Sam, wonderful result. The Delta, the Jupiter 4, Korg 770 and System 700 and Linn drum used to great effect on the Dare album made this 1982 teen fall in love with everything synthfee. Always loved the look, the dark, raw punky sound of the ▲ but as there were never that many interested in synths in the country where I live, so never got the chance to play the real thing, though happily have the Nabla from full bucket audio, which is a free Delta like vsti so close enough and much lighter and way more low maintenance.

Yay my mate used to have a delta very dark strings not popular but I loved, nice one Sam!

I like your very special enthusiasm about the most excellent electrical things.

I'm glad you have found the missing fader. Sometimes finding a couple of missing parts turns into a nightmare

Fascinating to watch the repair and the sound is just as fascinating

This has been my favorite Top Gear episode

Some fantastic sounds from that Korg - brilliant!

So cool to see it can be restored....and the guy helped you with that Cap tip (recap)...saved the synth !!!

Fantastic vid, Sam!

over the years, really enjoying the warm sound of the Korg. (any of them.... they all sound amazing)

It's obvious you love what you do & it's very easy to like you.

These are always so entertaining; such fun to watch you work. The part where you said, "This one needs a rhyno-cleaning 'cause we don't know where it's beeeennnnn!!!" Then hearing the night-and-day difference when you replaced the caps!

one of the rare poly(para)synths without a storage oprion. I like it, especially the traveller vcf.

Love paraphonic synths! Such a unique voice architecture with tons of potential! Wish more modern synths and plugins did paraphony.

Great work!!

Great work! Also really enjoyed looking round the museum!

Those strings make me think of a horror movie. Also sounds very like the synth on Garbage’s Cherry Lips.

Love those. Good work, mate.

Excellent work Sam. You made it sing again and it can now make people happy again. 😊

so satisfying to watch that process and then the synth itself is incredibly satisfying as well. Love me some Korg. And you learned me something I didn't know about polyphonic v monophonic synths! 😁

This machine sounds amazing. I could listen to this for days.

With these machines, it's a good idea to decap and cap them again. Also, protip: if the sliders are kaput, you can have the boards custom made and replaced. Painful work to do them, but it's a better solution than paying for bits that are just as old.

Brilliant job done, mate! This again is a joy to watch! While watching this video, from about @11:30 on, my wife asked me to lower the volume of the speaker system 🤣

What a wild beast of a synth!! Fun!

Came to Ramsgate on a day Trip almost missedthe spot and went to the gamer museum next door (but didnt ) the museum is brilliant, keep it up? HOPE YOU GET YOUR GIGS GOING FOR THE WINTER ! all the best

Had a Delta about 20 years ago, got it cheap as it had the same filter issue. Turned out to be the orange dipped caps which had gone leaky. I had a similar issue on my Jupiter 6, opened it up to find the same orange dipped caps on the voice boards (swapped them out for lower tolerance Mylars and the problem was gone). Upon further investigation, the leaky capacitor issue was first discovered on Nakamichi tape decks; a well known and reported long standing issue, interestingly, my Nakamichi deck is still running fine with the original orange caps in. If you find those caps in any faulty gear, get them swapped out as a matter of course.

Very very cool, that thing!

We picked up an electronic drum kit in a back alley a few months ago. I'm learning to play the drums on it now. :)

what a cool sound! grats on getting it all workin

Glad you got it working!

This guy could be in a Dr who episode where he helps the Dr fix the TARDIS with old synthesizer parts.

I repair vintage computers and at least half of the problems I find are capacitor and power related. Sometimes several are a blonde one within spec but the combined effect makes it all go pear shaped. If in doubt change the caps.

what a cool find .. theay are always better when free :)

One day I hope to visit your awesome museum and see you and Joan’s organ IRL! But having a disability I rely on others for transport 😅 and they do not like vintage electronics 😢

That sounds so cool! I have been looking around for a string synth, I will definitely keep my eye out for one of those. :D

I‘ve just recapped my Korg Delta and gave it a good clean. Boy, that were easy close to 100 electrolytic capacitors I did replace. But now the Delta sounds like new.

You are my favorite KZfaqr guy.

Epic---you have done it again; superlative.

RESPECT!!!

I produce ambient music with synths of various kinds, I confess I have never seen this! I learned something new!

Lucky find, good job done

Heeeeey I've got one of these! By the way, if all the F#'s are busted, it's a divider chip. Mine had a similar problem, I had to source a AS-10430 chip. But you're way more clever than I am so you've probably already figured that out ;)

British Accent: ✓ Spiky Hair: ✓ Vintage synthesizer: ✓ I have no choice but to watch.

Sounds like most 80s video game soundtracks were composed using this.

Can’t wait for the next song to be released with the korg

13:10 is peak 1980s Doctor Who

love it

Hey, this is the guy, i told you about. Guillaume Leroux "Paris", Sanctum bandcamp, hauntedhouserecords bandcamp. This Track: "French Connection" is impossible for you to clone, cover, copy or reproduce, killer track!!!!!!!!!! Dr. Macabre's Ghost Stories Chapter

I'm hoping to have a play on that this year. Great job repairing it. Darn those pesky caps!

Nice repair!

Rad a dustbin synth that you brought back from the dead. The sounds were giving me Castlevania and Ghost n' Goblins vibes.

It sounds so good!!! Wow! I like it much better than the new ones... its realy nice!!!

"I Found A KORG DELTA Synthesizer In Pieces" random guy : oh sh*t! i can't do anything with that. Look Mum : go rebuild it! you are the best!

this is amazing

Well done Sam for sorting out your Korg Delta! Also for explaining this quirky synth and plus showing us all the features of this string machine/ analogue synth hybrid. A couple of famous uses of the Delta: It can be heard throughout the Human League's "DARE" album (it's listed among the equipment used on the inner record sleeve). A few times in your video it sounded like something from DARE. It also provided the string and pad sounds on A Flock of Seagull's "I Ran" hit, as confirmed in their own video where they showed how to play that song (link below). A cool little keyboard that made it's way onto some major hits! AFOS "how to play I Ran" video (featuring original band members): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g915aduJv86WqWQ.htmlsi=aU-3Ctr9sSCugZXS&t=259

From basket-case back to a boppin' beast! Would be great to hear some classic video-game tunes on it! Man, there are so many fun tunes that could be played on that!

I had one of these in the mid 80’s. Limited, but had its uses. I don’t regret selling it. That’s a whole other list.

sounds amazing. has a bit of older video games sound

Very cool synth, Sam. Wish I had had one of these when I was 20 haha :) That Midi upgrade looks interesting; maybe a new episode ? Thanks for sharing !

you got the Midas touch 🌟

power going in and out makes sense with the caps. Cause they do that when they go bad. they forget how to work. Neato machine.

love youuuu

I feel gross talking about likes but You, Sam are owed a fuck ton, afaic!

That instrument has quite range. 🤔😎

I need to buy one now !

Awesome Inc ❤❤

Never heard of The Yakometties before, and the song isn't the greatest, but it transported me back to 1985 and I enjoyed it very much!

brilliant, sam:) wonder if the string section was used in an animated film called "suspicious circumstances" by jim blashfield. sounds awfully familiar in tombre

Really good job, you could 3d print a joystick cap to fix the broken joystick