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Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers
Subject: Re: Usenet Tape depression sets in.
From: Michael Whitten <M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 15:12:08 CST
Organization: University of Minnesota - Computer & Information Services

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>many people waste alot of time programming their synths and worrying
>about the latest and greatest equipment (including me from time to
>time) when they should be concentrating on learning about the music.
                                                               ^^^^^
>-Jaz (Fire-proof suit ready)

Hey....I thought we were done with that foreign language thread!
<X>
From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Subject: Re: Gear Lust
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:54:25 GMT

aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller) writes:
 > As a reformed 'Gearhead',  I can relate to the Gear Lust syndrome. IMHO
 > many of the netters here believe that "Gear" is the replacement for
 > practice. Many a novice believes just having the newest toy on the
 > block is all that they will need to make good music. [...]

Just to play Devil's advocate here, I've gotta say that some of
you are missing a very important point... a lot of people don't
want to WORK at this.  They want to make music and have fun.
There's nothing wrong with that, as far as I can see.  I like to
juggle, but that doesn't mean I should practice until I can
juggle seven clubs or ten balls or something ridiculous like
that.  It's just a hobby, to let off some steam, to have a good
time.

If sitting around banging on a new toy keeps some people from
experimenting with power tools and vivisection then I'm all for
it, yessiree. :)
From: metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (metlay)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Raise yours hands if ...
Summary: The Wave as a W*rkst*t**n
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:39:27 GMT
Organization: Atomic City

In article <NICK.92Apr15123810@campay.ed.ac.uk> nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>Actually, I wonder what the demand is for the WAVE? I mean, I sure as hell
>would love one, but what about yer average KEYBOARD-reading pop-oriented
>Spandex Clown? This ain't no smash-hit top-20 Top L.A. Studio TV soundtrack
>sample player.

No, it isn't. At the moment, it's VAPORWARE. There's no demand for it because
it doesn't exist. And by the time it does, one of three things is going to 
happen:

1. Wolfgang Palm will be as clueless as he was in 1982, try to sell
them for $6000 a pop, and Waldorf will go the way of PPG;

2. The price on the street will be manageable, and they'll actually
sell a few units to folx who regard Minimoogs, even *with* MIDI, as
too much of a hassle for lugging around; or

3. Wolfgang Palm will get a *serious* clue, take one look at the S5
and K2000, and offer plug-in cards for the expansion busses that add
sample playback and alteration, with a large RAM area and a ROM cache
of piano and drum sounds, as well as an SMF Type 0 sequencer with
advanced editing capabilities, basically making the Wave the true
successor to the WaveTerm.

Bets?

--
metlay    | 
@minerva. |                      G*R*A*S*P*!
phyast.   | 
pitt.edu  | 
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Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 09:53:28 EDT
From:         "AED-FD Homesh R. Lalbahadur" <hlalbah@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      continuous midi
Comments: To: synth-l@auvm.american.edu

    What is continuous midi versus non-continuous midi? Any explanations out
there?
From: smithj@hpsadlu.sad.hp.com (Jim Smith)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:33:28 GMT
Subject: Re: BANDWIDTH (was Re: Tounges & Interpretation (was Re: Problems!!!!!))
Organization: no risk to you!
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth

metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (metlay)  writes:
>In article <1680209@hpsadlu.sad.hp.com> smithj@hpsadlu.sad.hp.com (Jim Smith) writes:
>>>"It seems that in all countries, our single greatest problem is, how you say,
>>>'BANDWIDTH'?"
>>See, Mike?  All around the world, people are waiting to hear, how you say,
>>'BANDWIDTH!'  What has become of the poor antiquarian beast?
>
>I'm going to kill you, Jim. With my teeth and fingernails. It'll be painful
>and messy and I'm going to love every juicy bite....
 
Oh, dear.  

Calm down, Mike, now go back to work on your thesis, thassa good candidate...

<Interesting and informative (to those interested) summary deleted>

>Thanks for letting me rant, I really needed it.

Thanks for the update.  
(It's good to get out every so often.  Take a walk, smell the flowers.
 Try it, you'll get a whole new perspective!)

I promise not to bug you again until late summer.  Who knows, perhaps
by then, I may have some material worthy of telling r.m.s. about.
Perhaps I'll even let y'all hear it, eventually...    :->
From: gt3281c@prism.gatech.EDU (TABLER,JOHN ALEXANDER)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: power conditioning?
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:39:34 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

>If you have no choice and can't run a dedicated line or the house line
>is dirty, then get a filter that is large and filters
>common mode noise as well as differential noise.  The filter should be
>sized to at least 3 times the maximum RMS load of the equipment in
>use.

    What the heck is a 'RMS load'?
 I know you are not speaking of power amplifiers, but...
   
   If you mean maximun RMS current, then your advice is sound.  If
you mean 'watts RMS' then it is something else.   The use of RMS to describe 
power in terms of watts , i.e. 'watts RMS' in a misnomer that that is firmly
entrenched in the sales literature of audio power amplifiers.  If anyone is
still using the expression 'watts RMS', please take the time to read the
following items:

        [1]Paul W. Klipsch, "Misnomer 'RMS POWER' " J. Audio Eng. Soc. (letter)
           Vol 20/#5 June 1972 pg. 402
        [2]J.R. Ashley, "What's a Watt (rms)?" J. Audio Eng. Soc. (letter)     
           Vol 19    Oct 1971  pg 793
        [3]J.G. Mcknight, Comments on  "What's a Watt (rms)?" J. Audio Eng. Soc.
           (letter)  Vol 20/#1    Jan/Feb 1971  pg 46
             



>In troubleshooting problems tear the setup down to the mixer by
>its self.  If that is as clean as it gets then start connecting
>equipment until you find the problem.
  
    This is excellent advice!


Bye

John T.
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: cs318a62@ibmb2.cs.uiuc.edu (Philip M Scopes)
Subject: Re: LP Stereo
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 04:04:40 GMT

wesley@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Wesley Konrad) writes:


>I don't know if this question is totally appropriate but, 

>Where do you get two tracks on an LP?  Do they really do stereo?

I believe that the groove on a stereo record has a "left" and "right" half.
The needle of a stereo record player separates these two signals and you get
stereo.

Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers,comp.music
From: malouin@engin.umich.edu (Curt Malouin)
Subject: Re: ... Let's get USENET Recording '92 rolling ...
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 23:46:43 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

Re: USENET CD

One thing to keep in mind is that USENET '91 was 2x90 min.
cassettes.  That would require 2 CD's.

	-cut-
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: don@vestek.com (Don Labutay)
Subject: Re: Problems!!!!!
Organization: Vestek Systems, San Francisco
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 00:51:44 GMT

In article <274@bbx.basis.com> scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>In article <204453@unix.cis.pitt.edu> metlay@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (metlay) writes:
>>>>	Je ne sais pas; mais, peut-etre si vous posez le question en anglais,
>>>>il y sera plus de personnes qui peuvent repondre.
>>>Nishin: Nihongo ga wakaru hito wa, hitori de mo kono guruup wo yonde iru hito
>>>iru kai?
>>
>>Izvinityeh, pozhaluista, no ya dumayu shto etot razgovor ochen' glupui'!
>>U nas nyet luchyie temui, kak MIDI ili kotorii K2000 lyche chem Alesis S5?
>>
>>Kazhetsya, shto vo vsyekh stranakh, nasha samaya ogromnaya problema, eto,
>>kak vy skazhitye, 'BANDWIDTH'?
>
>Jeeze.  I come home from Europe desparately wanting to hear some good ol'
>English and this is what I get.
>
>-- 
NaNu Nanu
From: Dhomas.Trenn@f3.n255.z1.fidonet.org (Dhomas Trenn)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Digital inputs on F/X
Date: 15 Apr 92 03:46:10 GMT
Reply-To: Dhomas.Trenn@f3.n255.z1.fidonet.org
Distribution: World.
Organization: N/C BBS FidoNet <-> Usenet Gateway.

In a message of 08-Apr-92, rosensta (1:255/3.107) wrote:

 > From: rosensta@ace.rutgers.edu
 > Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
 >
 > Does anyone know of any effects processors besides the Yamah SPX 900
 > and 1000 that support digital input and output?  If someone has
 > actually used one of the things, that's even better.

The Yamaha SPX900 does not have a digital input or output, and I doubt that
the SPX1000 does either.  I just looked at the pamphlet for it.

--- / FastPoint 1.32
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From: mjb@mulka.ph.unimelb.edu.au (Michael Beeching)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: sample formats
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:10:08 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.synth
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia


	Ok, lets try a different track. Recently I asked if anybody had the
format for the Akai S1000 samples, and received no reply!! (not one) So
now I am asking if anybody knows about any of the "standard" formats used
to store samples!! (with the bottom line being to get to the S1000 format)
In particular I would love to know about any programs that are available
to perform conversions of different types, (source code if possible!!)

Hoping for some reply this time....Mike


	mjb@electron.ph.unimelb.edu.au
From: Joerg.Spix@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Joerg.Spix)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Yamaha TX81Z problem - HELP
Keywords: hums, noises, help
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:11:04 GMT
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany

I think the humming TX81Z comes from the Transformer which IS near the
power cable. Open the upper part of the expander (4-8 screws) and check
if the transformer is a little bit loose. (Danger! High voltage, you know.)
Tighten the screw may eliminate the noise. Check it out.
My TX81Z vibrates a little bit, but it doesn't disturb me.

Remember the TX81Z is not grounded.

Joerg Spix
(Joerg.Spix@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: dlbg1912@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David L. Berk)
Subject: Text file --> MIDI file
Summary: Text file --> MIDI file
Keywords: Music MIDI computer
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:25:01 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know of a utility for the Mac that will convert a
properly formatted text file to a standard MIDI file?

The text file would contain all the essential note information 
such as channel, start time, duration, velocity, pitch, etc.
      
Thanks!

David
d-berk@uiuc.edu
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 13:24:09 CET
From: <ATONI@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject:    -- Roland U50 --

Hi,
Sorry for my ignorance Mike .. but what is a Roland U-50 ?  never heard of
and never seen it before !!!

Ciao
Andrea
From: wde@angus.agen.ufl.edu (Bill Eshleman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: digital piano
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:04:01 GMT
Reply-To: wde@angus.agen.ufl.edu (Bill Eshleman)
Organization: U of Florida. Engineering Computing Support Facility

Is the person that asked about "digital pianos" going to post
a summary?  Thank you.
From: pgr@ramandu.ext.vt.edu (Patrick Robinson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: practicing vs. programming (was: Usenet tape depression)
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:16:15 GMT

WSCOTT@WOOSTER.BITNET writes
> Acoustic instruments are NOT analog, they are the instruments to which
> analog instruments are analogous.

Wabbly glubble bunky!  Quibbofris:

   "analog:  being or relating to a mechanism in which data is represented
             by continuously variable physical quantities"

Himmer bugglidork whunkuh huff "piano" bifpig.  Nub whappie?

-Patrick
 pgr@ramandu.ext.vt.edu
From: JROSSI@EAGLE.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Oh, yea, about ADAT
Date: 15 Apr 92 02:49:00 GMT


In the midst of the Mac buy problem I forgot to mention that I got to spend the
better part of an afternoon beating on an ADAT a couple weeks ago.  All I can
say is that it does what Alesis says it will do.  I tortured the transport for
a couple hours and couldn't make it cough.  It will do anything an 8 track 
recorder will do, the variable speed was impressive, and the speed of the
transport functions was amazing.  If I was seriously considering an 8 track
reel to reel, right now, I wouldn't hesitate to buy an ADAT.  It does anything
that any odf the under $4000 Tascams and Fostex decks do.  I can't imagine
a non-paranoid reason for buying one of these over anything else currently
available.  I have to admit that at $3450 (the computed CE price) I can't 
afford one right now.  But....

John
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Info on Kwai PH50
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 22:25:35 GMT

Goodman Music is selling the Kwai PH50 for $199 (off 600 list price)...
I've reserved one, but before I go through with the purchase, I want to
see exactly how good this price is, what it is I'm getting, whether I
can get a better price new, what I can get for $200 used, if anyone
is willing to offer me something for that price... I also put a note on
rec.music.makers...

This is my first posting... basically, all I wanna do is make music and
play around with MIDI on my friends amiga 500... I don't have much
money, and I've never done this before, so I wanna make sure I'm not
screwing myself.

Thanks,

Thom

Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller)
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Multisound
Reply-To: aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 13:11:30 GMT


In a previous article, wesley@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Wesley Konrad) says:

>Will.ROCH803@XEROX.COM writes:
>
>> Anyone know about the price and availability of the new Turtle Beach multisou
>> (I think that's what they call it) card?
>
>Leigh's Computers has it listed as being $825.  It doesn't say anything 
>about compatibility.  

Compatiblilty with what? Sound Blaster? MPU401? (No no FM synthesis here,
thank God!)


PCH
-- 
Peter C. Haller				|	'If you do what you 
Imagination Processing Systems		|	have always done,
aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu 		|	expect what you have
"Are we having fun yet?"		|	always recieved.'
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:57:38 BST
From:         The Brown Bottle <ross-c@DCS.LEEDS.AC.UK>
Subject:      Synth Advertising
Comments: To: SYNTH-L@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

I've never seen this in an advert before.

> AKAI SAMPLERS. UNDENIABLY THE INDUSTRY STANDARD!!!!

Well, another Akai sampler ad. But no, what's this? (in small print
underneath).

> but before you follow the flock, evaluate roland's s770/s750 at syco,
> ..........

It is a two page ad, the first page is a picture of a flock of sheep
in really poor resolution grainy black and white.

Ross-c

Sound on sound, April '92, pages 14-15.
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: five@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (skinny puppy)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Module idea for modulars
Date: 7 Apr 92 09:31:18 GMT
Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB

To any builders out there:
 
How about a graphic equalizer module, with control voltage inputs for 
each band?  
If I remember correctly, something similar has been done for Parametrics 
on a Digisound module.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong.  :)  This could be a very nifty module though, 
no?
 
Five

;--- (skinny puppy) a user of sys6626, running waffle 1.64
;E-mail: five@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
;system 6626: 63 point west drive, winnipeg manitoba canada R3T 5G8
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: dcooley@apd.mentorg.com (Doug Cooley)
Subject: Please Ignore Except Ross-c
Originator: dcooley@dcooley
Organization: mktg
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:10:37 GMT

Sorry about the bandwidth, but I just can't seem to get ahold of
this guy via e-mail, and I don't have a phone number for him.

Ross-c, please send me e-mail with your phone number and a good
time to call you during PDT business hours (I think there's an
8 hour difference).  I've tried e-mail, it constantly bounces.

-- 

Doug Cooley                | Any sufficiently advanced technology is
Mentor Graphics Corp.      | indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
dcooley@apd.mentorg.com    |                    - Unknown
From: JROSSI@EAGLE.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Who synth usage on Who's Next
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:57:00 GMT


If I remember correctly, the thing that everybody thinks is a synth in Won't
Get Fooled Again is actually an organ being run through a VCS3's.  Most of
the other synth stuff on that album was Arp 2600 (could have been Oddysey,
however.. Definately was pre-2500 which first appeared on Quadrophenia).
But, yes, a Synthi VCS3 was definately used on Who's Next.

John
From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Alesis ADAT and BRC
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:41:54 GMT
Organization: Friends of the Salter Duck
In-reply-to: DUNN@INTELLICORP.COM's message of 14 Apr 92 17:34:14 GMT

In article <SYNTH-L%92041413355200@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU> DUNN@INTELLICORP.COM (more dark than shark) writes:

   didn't hear any weird aliasing on slow fliter-sweeps
   synthsounds either...

Damn. Alesis dropped the ball there.

Nick.
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From: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: eq Plus Gold/Cakewalk
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:41:30 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

Regarding Cakewalk's merge function, in article <1992Apr15.081144.5453@rose.uucp> bohdan.kiszczuk@rose.com (bohdan kiszczuk) writes:
>         The stuff in the scrap buffer will paste exactly as the 
>original file looks. In other words if the original file had stuff on 
>tracks 1,2,3 starting at measure 3 the scrap buffer will paste into 
>tracks 1,2,3 of the current file starting on measure 3.

This is incorrect.  One can force all tracks of the merged file to paste
to a single track with the "Paste to One Track" function, and the paste
location uses the "Now" marker just like any other paste.  In other words,
after the merged file is loaded into the scrap buffer, it is treated like
any other scrap buffer data.

-- 
============================================================================
Michael Kesti  Grass Valley Group, Inc. | "And like, one and one don't make
    mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM              |  two, one and one make one."
    !tektronix!gvgpsa!gvgspd!mrk        |         - The Who, Bargain
From: smithj@hpsadlu.sad.hp.com (Jim Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: what are the various
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:17:59 GMT
Organization: no risk to you!

"wayne kelso" <wayne.kelso@canrem.com>  writes:

>DX7: 12 bit DAC's; transmits only on midi channel 1; 32 programs
>DX5: two DX7's  boxed in a huge coffin {allows for 32 voice bi-tymbral 
>splits & layers} 
>DX7IID: 16 bit DAC's; midi functions much more evolved;allows for 16 voice 
>bi-tymbral splits & layers; stereo outputs; 64 programs + performance 
>set-ups;microtonal tunings
>DX7IIFD: same as above, but with a floppy drive for tons of programs to 
>peruse
>TX807:{worth mentioning}: Same specs as DX7II, but allows for 16 voice
> multi-tymbral operation up to eight intruments. Also has eight outputs 
>plus a stereo output.This is a module.
>
>
>I have both a DX7 and a TX 802, and the 802 is definitely quieter. I 
>played a DX5 once, and if I remember correctly, the front panel consisted 
>of two sets of independent controls for each "DX7". You would not want to 
>cart this puppy around. It was huge! There might have been some neat 
>features, but it seems that the natural evolution of this instrument was 
>realized in the newer FM instruments.

Thanks for the informative summary, Wayne.  A couple of niggles:

The DX1 was two DX7s boxed in a huge coffin, with a weighted keyboard.
The DX5 had a 76-note keyboard, and was indeed two DX7s worth of voice
generators, but wasn't much larger than a DX7.  I suspect you once played
a DX1, not a DX5.

The "TX807" above must be a typo.  I'm sure you meant "TX802."

There was also the TX816, eight TF1 "DX7" cards in a rackmount module.
The densest commercial source of synth voices of its time, no doubt.

And there was also the DX7IIs, a second-generation version of the DX7, 
comparable in power to the original, but with improved sound and MIDI
functionality.

                    Jim Smith  smithj@hpsad.sad.hp.com
                 Going Up, Going Down, Going Up And Down.
From: michael@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Michael S. Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Alesis Data Disk problem
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:43:16 GMT
Reply-To: michael@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Michael S. Williams)
Organization: Center for Neural Systems, Memory, and Aging

In article <1992Apr15.180956.12657@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aa588@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eddie Anthony) writes:
>
>I am trying to use my Alesis Data Disk with the upgrade chip that
>makes it a real time playback machine. However, I can't get the songs
>to record to it cleanly. I have a disk with 2 songs on it, showing me
>40% disk space used, and the 3rd song keeps giving me a disk error.
>Isn't the DOS in the device "smart" where it will skip over a bad
>sector and keep on writing?

I think that once it's got a disk error, you're pretty screwed.  It
doesn't seem to be smart at all about bad sectors.  Whenever I dump
a file to disk, I'll then do a backup of it (a disk backup) and 
try sending the backup. If there are no problems, then I'm pretty sure
that the original is o.k. also (remember to actually make 2 separate
save, not just a disk backup, in case the original is NOT
good.)

The DataDisk is a great tool, but as soon as I got my upgrade chip,
I lost mucho trust in the data being saved (thinking about it,
this doesn't sound good, because such a tool SHOULD be able to
be trusted.  hmmm).  There are certain brands of disks which I
found would ALWAYS have problems, and some with a few problems;
the ones that I use now are Sony, and I still get some problems,
but not very often, and they're usually recoverable disk errors,
i.e., there will be garbage for 1 beat of a song, but it will
then continue.

Anyway: lots and lots of backups!!!!

>And Alesis is so thoughtful that they don't include a phone number
>with any of their advertising.....

The sales # is: 800-5-ALESIS, call them and they'll give you the tech
support number. If you do find out anything more about disk errors,
etc., please post.

>Another minor snag is that I also use Cakewalk software which apparently
>[...]

Sorry, don't know nothin' about that problem. Maybe there's a way to
turn off the continuous pulses in Cakewalk???


-Michael

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