The Akai VX600 is a very nice synthesizer. It's got 12 analog vco's, 6 independent multitimbral voices with individual outputs and its matrix has an input for voltage control. In other words: it's
extremely flexible and useful in an analog setup. The fm is also very nice. It has some negative sides too: personally i'm not very impressed by the envelopes and the lfo's, there's a horrible bleep coming from the backlight and the filter can sound like a tin can occasionally.
Also the display can get a bit unreadable after years of use but fortunately
Wolfgang at midi-rakete.de has a great solution for that: a fresh EL-Foil. It's very easy to replace. I couldn't find any pictures so i shot a few for other VX600 owners.
Here's more VX600 info.
EL-Foil replacement
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCJtv2QU1jmlBzXWU4dUuHhA4amyU6gCVbpJCxlpkmpcRZsYDEZLK8RRFAfenTr_c9WgeyPc8mBBodadKT-yJm01W0_0TJiAMFpR-kzfHIrPXo5k1nIZgZaiXai3BLHM3lO8J0yg3Q2RI/s400/mail.jpg)
EL-Foil in the mail
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0C3lGz_H77tWqzT78cppUUC4eRdvteEEPz3aiIY9jQfCuY8S2btRe4oXeE1gdcmyFFEefMLfn48YMi6UWwl7wR0GOHsoy5ruQrxi0zcvRReaDJ6NsQjCv0k98xNXXHOZc36K2CEN2qgxC/s400/look-inside.jpg)
open up
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKeodVl1mULzlCkBd9LzyaD-hOdTjCWrDffRguHKtTCKAJzO_0Cj2z9sXGJ0wgulRvbG5UYS4Tscp9UqLAyIHtCgP6E-8W5xMPuEzyRvQamktxbXTEZq0AYKxbH6ysNiZUsnjFv045NPv/s400/screen.jpg)
the display
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnznKZtYPy_pPETqtijZB6Ta5mnqf8BgV0SoTyqA2KCwlrGPfF5EC32c6uxNYEbgjsmh933n72jKSsnk-gyRYuewaaqWEZ_q439KmQ22k1c4oCToLBUlcLf-5zk5oFNTrvRfIiO57Zha_l/s400/losmaken.jpg)
get out the display
slide out the old el-foil
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhYUuJBWW8-Hw23r-iCS3AMOVIOepl8zPOOO3YfRFfLgxFU4PK6JfZHfaopAghPDmauNuAioj6GqyAOYC-AL2krvtrcs3gc-En9-HEg0X83H8qOlR5rQ5E0ulaKdpIPVe4E6sW9awUcgq/s400/solderen.jpg)
a bit of soldering
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWEJsxAvo5GvXHa-y3t3VvPErL2_e4aE7HM7qtW7i-XkHaO65PCG5CpY_VHSolvkd5k_YhC_l9ZIs23-03mgRq5Dy-27zg84CIU3c6tbBnGxHN5YwpOgSbdoXcTR7I5NwiYAQ7GQQUOeZ/s400/nieuwe-erin.jpg)
slide in the new one
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3lUVyehwx6YdiKNqT6eQ2zzqMdWKf8syGqmL2NYFo3t2fupzKVON8J1ol5YTZIYbhxEJCWs0feHiyQfCgec4qC6cnp26vDfJe4cKGU1IayFBBjF4AuRm2KZUq8_M4ZjvWgm5ve6AK3Y0L/s400/screen+view.jpg)
ready