After finding the Yamaha IC guide on the Internet Archive, mentioned here, I started to think I should share the owners manual and service manual. Actually, I was thinking it would be useful for me to have scans of them anyway. And of course if I was gong to share them they would need to be in pdf format. However, one of the things that irks me about .pdfs is when there are no links or searchable text in them. Most (all) synth manuals I've ever downloaded are just plain scans of the original printed documents and no active content. Fair enough, but I wanted to do better. So, I embarked on the task of creating scans and converting them to .pdf using Acrobat.
There are actually four documents
Owners Manual - User guide, in other words. "STRINGS SS-30 is a keyed instrument to let you enjoy rich tones peculiar to the strings with this instrument."
Service Manual - The circuit and wiring diagrams. This is, obviously, the really useful bit for the project.
Parts List - Including spectacular exploded 3D diagram
Block Diagram & Overall Circuit Diagram - No scans yet.
The service manual folder also contains the parts list and the block diagrams, which are printed on either side of a huge poster sized piece of paper. I've scanned everything apart from that as I was having problems with the scanner I was using and wanted get on with the rest. It will need stitching together.
I made a start on the service manual and I'm about 80% done.
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It's been a huge job to add all the text though and I got tired of it and decided to knock off the owners manual quickly to show some progress.
So, here it is!
In the pdf all of the text is searchable, the contents section contains links to the relevant pages and the 'How To Use SS30' section has links for the numbered references on the diagram.
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