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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...

I had the kit but no actual equipment to do the job at least safely. I've ordered a "better" soldering station for Christmas last year, and finally decided to sit down not too long ago to do this job. It was excruciating with the tools on hand. It's an awful job but a done job nonetheless.

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."

That is definitely NOT what I wanted to see after almost 5 hours straight of work, but I tried to look on the bright side: the unit was recapped, it will last another few decades, potentially. I began to think that MAYBE I should've tested the volume pot first. And, it turns out that WAS the issue!