Mininova trash find
Saw a old beat up mininova box on top of my apartment's trash cans. Since I was throwing out my trash I went to move it and felt that it had some weight to it. Threw out my trash, opened the box out of curiosity and saw that there was indeed a mininova in the box. Took it upstairs. Box only contained the synth, no power supply, no gooseneck mic, no documentation. Saw that it can be powered by USB so tried that and plugged in some headphones and it works perfectly fine. So now that I got this free synth I have some questions...
The rubber on the pitch and modwheel is breaking down and is all sticky/greasy due to age. Does anyone know where I could order replacement ones? Since this was free I've got no problem spending some bucks to not make it feel so gross to touch.
Keys are all yellowed. Could be age, could be from cigarettes. Is there a good way to clean these? Or a place to get replacement keys?
Finally, I didn't spend much time checking out the sounds but I know many of them are pretty unusable for me since it doesn't really fit the sort of music I make, same reason why I sold my microkorg almost 2 decades ago and this reminds me a lot of that synth. I'm sure there's some sort of editor or app for making new patches or places to download new soundbanks. Anybody have ones they can recommend or where to find those?
Much appreciated.