Korg EM-1

Here’s another vintage piece of gear I am obsessed with and I have a chance to pick one up for next to nothing

HOWEVER! A former owner has removed the output jacks and the headphone jacks. WTF!? The current owner seems like kind of a noob and has no idea why the person did it. He says however that it works as a MIDI controller, all the buttons and knobs send MIDI so that would indicate that it has some usable functionality - so my idea is I could solder in some jacks!?

Any idea why on earth anyone would ever remove those jacks? I cant imagine a scenario!? If the MIDI is intact, would it follow that the synth engines would be intact?

Anyway, I’m going to look at it tomorrow

You said it right there - sounds like it’s worth a go!