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I can confidently say the CM32L is finally fucking "fixed". It only took me 2 years to like, actually do it. Full story below; it's a whole trip; also explains why it's "fixed" and not fully fixed.

I bought it off Cashies for £100 (iirc) as "fully working" and it was not, in fact, fully working. One of the audio outputs was completely dead. I could've returned it for a full refund but I chose to keep it as they would've just dumped it or sold it for scrapping.

These devices are only getting rarer, after all, so why not try repairing it? I didn't have any knowledge or tools to do this sort of exhaustive troubleshooting. It could just be the pot, it could be a dead component. I just knew the headphone output had the same ailment: a dead right channel.

I foolishly ordered a recap kit off a retailer that sold kits for repairing old devices. In fact, I ordered TWO as for some reason, they shipped the first one to the wrong address and were like, "uh not our fault our systems work fine". I caught it replacing my address the 2nd go around...

Some of the through-holes would not clear up no matter how much braid and flux and whatever I threw at it. I gave up and soldered the replaced components as if they were surface mounts. As I was working with lead based solder as well, it didn't take long for my body to react negatively too.

Still, I pushed on, and got it done. At first, it didn't turn on. I was defeated. I was fully ready to just... give up. Sell it for parts, and move on. Thankfully, I noticed that one the caps wasn't soldered properly. I redid that, and it turned on! To my relief.

I quickly rigged a testing environment up, pulled random cables out of my rack to test it, and I've had to fight with FL Studio not recognising some devices... I turned it on. I hooked it up. I played a note. Same fucking symptom as before. The past 5 hours did NO difference whatsoever. "FUCK."