Electronics peeps; my sampler has an issue where the rotary encoder drops inputs, registers multiple for single turns, or registers inputs in the opposite direction. Does the encoder need replacing?

@renbymon Likely yes. It's a shaft (hurr) with 2 disks on. It'll either be contacts or slits with an offset. So it measures time between seeing slits and works out how far/fast/which direction.

SOMETIMES Contact cleaner/other solvents can wash the crud out enough. But oftentimes it's just easier to replace.

The difficult part is matching the various parameters up o.< So you have to strip it to find the part number anyway >.<

@Jencen This is bigger than I was expecting! The base is about the size of a pound coin.

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