u/LeifCorvidae

Hey,

I own a Focusrite 18i8 and it had some broken parts, so I tried to find a way to get to the circutboard.

So I tried to find some screws or other clues, nothing.

But I found a way, because seemingly no one on the internet did.. (or at least I could findSo I found a way, but its not the best sadly you could hope for.. You damage your backplate!

You probably need some kind of cleaning alcohol, like isopropyl or at least over 90% Ethanol
[Note if you use one of my recommended alcohols that shouldn‘t damage the electronics, but be careful]
And a small Screwdriver, fitting screwdrivers for the screws afterwards and some pliers
I recommend doing that on the back plate, but the black plastic on front is going to be damaged, so you can calculate with breaking it! But there is some kind of protection between..

So:
You pour you alcohol all around the edges of the back plate to resolve some of the glue (The glue to stick the back plate to another plate is filled so not only around the edges)

Then you take your little screwdriver and take an edge or corner and try to peel the backplate out, if you don‘t get anything out, try more alcohol or take something that is already open like the charge port and peel from there.

Then you try to go all around the edges, if something doesn‘t work, you probably need more alcohol
If you can lift the plastic plate pour some alcohol across the plate you see beneath and try to pull the plate out
If you got the wobbly plastic plate out, congrats the most disturbing part is done!

Then you need to screw out all of the screws you see
Note! The line outputs have also some kind of screws!
I recommend taking pliers and try to screw them out.
Once everthing is done you can try to lift up the plate carefully! (I recommend using the screwdriver and taking a port to put it in and lift)
Note! Be careful the powerbutton is still connected and you have to pull the plug from the circutboard to take it off completly!

If you wanna take out the circutboard, there are some screws if you look way down to the otherside inside the Focusrite, but I didn‘t try it so I may get some updates here to do it the most safe way.

If you have questions, feel free to ask!
(I don‘t know why the 18i8 3rd Gen is so much pain to open lol)

Im a newbie into Linux my friends kinda helped me through it because they use Linux way longer than me, but they don´t know either what to do because they don´t use bottles commonly..

I know these are very specific so I don´t expect much, for context I use Linux Mint, but also tried on my Arch Laptop

I tried running all these 4 Programs over Bottles, and they all don´t start or just Blackscreen..

NOTE I looked for alternatives, tried many options, I also tried running eagle, installing the right .dlls, I know VirtualBox, but I don´t want to run it everytime in the background or start it for every slight of change I want it in my system and even asked AI..

First I tried running LGHUB, the installer won´t even start, so I don´t know whats happening. I know there are alternatives, I tried them, they don´t work very well or doesn´t work, I tired many things.

Second Boss Tone Studio for GT-1000, I guess thats for me the most important right now so I can Backup and Edit my Patches more fluid. I invested very much time into it and tried a lot! But it all comes back to the same blackscreen and sometimes a terminal appears and it closes itself. Sometimes in the terminal it says xrandr failure, that comes up a lot on my bottles and I don´t know how to fix, and I already asked what I could do on that and nothing worked

I looked also for alternatives for that one but couldn´t find any, google suggest some but they don´t work with GT-1000

Third GrandMA3 it has the same xrandr issue, but it also opens a GrandMA3 menu where it says GrandMA3 has failed and I should try retry or cancel, it also says in GrandMA3 Terminal that it is low on RAM, but it worked way before on Windows, before I switched to Linux

Fourth Plugin Buddy, the same blackscreen issue, I want to run Serum 2 standalone in it, I could try use Serum 2 with Wine or yarbridge, but I don´t got good experiences with it, Im open here for Linux alternatives that are very flexable almost every feature and kinda same feeling overlay

Very Specific, but I hope someone can still help, and maybe it will help someone in the future :)

Hey,
I own a Focusrite 18i8 and it had some broken parts, so I tried to find a way to get to the circutboard.
So I tried to find some screws or other clues, nothing.
But I found a way, because seemingly no one on the internet did.. (or at least I could find)
So I found a way, but its not the best sadly you could hope for.. You damage your backplate!

You probably need some kind of cleaning alcohol, like isopropyl or at least over 90% Ethanol
[Note if you use one of my recommended alcohols that shouldn‘t damage the electronics, but be careful]
And a small Screwdriver, fitting screwdrivers for the screws afterwards and some pliers
I recommend doing that on the back plate, but the black plastic on front is going to be damaged, so you can calculate with breaking it! But there is some kind of protection between..

So:
You pour you alcohol all around the edges of the back plate to resolve some of the glue (The glue to stick the back plate to another plate is filled so not only around the edges)

Then you take your little screwdriver and take an edge or corner and try to peel the backplate out, if you don‘t get anything out, try more alcohol or take something that is already open like the charge port and peel from there.

Then you try to go all around the edges, if something doesn‘t work, you probably need more alcohol
If you can lift the plastic plate pour some alcohol across the plate you see beneath and try to pull the plate out
If you got the wobbly plastic plate out, congrats the most disturbing part is done!

Then you need to screw out all of the screws you see
Note! The line outputs have also some kind of screws!
I recommend taking pliers and try to screw them out.
Once everthing is done you can try to lift up the plate carefully! (I recommend using the screwdriver and taking a port to put it in and lift)
Note! Be careful the powerbutton is still connected and you have to pull the plug from the circutboard to take it off completly!

If you wanna take out the circutboard, there are some screws if you look way down to the otherside inside the Focusrite, but I didn‘t try it so I may get some updates here to do it the most safe way.

If you have questions, feel free to ask!
(I don‘t know why the 18i8 3rd Gen is so much pain to open lol)