If you wrote, what happened immediately after the spilling of the beer, let it dry out completely and then give it a try again. It might work. If it shorted out it will need professional repair or replacement.
Yeah, if you spilled the beer while the keyboard was powered up, you may have short-circuited something or just fried the entire thing altogether. Time for a new keyboard... and stop drinking in the studio.
I spilled beer all over my oxygen 88 keys. Now it doesn't work. Any ideas on the best way to clean the inside?
Oh man, Andy! I hope it wasn't good beer. If you wasted a Bud, that wouldn't be too bad. I spilled a glass of Cabernet on my computer keyboard and it fried the whole dang computer! Couldn't be repaired... lost a lot of data. Good luck!
Answer these three questions-Did it smoke? or did it just lose power? are you powering it usb? if so Flip it over, take it apart if you're good enough. It should be easy. Visually inspect it and look and smell for anything burned clean what you can with alcohol particularly the PCB board. let it dry overnight. put it back together and hope for the best.
I sense more info is needed. The beer (yes,it was Bud) was spilled and the keyboard sat for 2 to 3 weeks. There were no sparks or smoke. When I booted things up a few weeks later I figured out there was no signal going to my Receptor thru the usb port. As I began to clean the surface of the keys, occasionaly a note would sound. I'm thinking the beer residue inside is the problem. Is there a trick to taking apart the keyboard and cleaning the inside. Please note these are weighted keys. Just like a real piano.
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I don't think there's any trick. You just need to take it apart and clean it using clean cloth, maybe cotton swaps for the tight crevices, water and rubbing alcohol. I haven't done it before, but if you do a search on Google and/or YouTube for 'Cleaning a MIDI Keyboard' you should be able to find some info and/or instructions.
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