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From: sotoc@cdl02.me.msu.edu (Ciro Soto)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: FOR  SALE: TR-626 RHYTHM  COMPOSER
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:28:24 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: cdl02.me.msu.edu


WHAT:   RHYTHM COMPOSER  (MIDI)
MAKER:  ROLAND
MODEL:  TR-626


CHARACTERISTICS:
48 PRESET RHYTHIM PATTERNS
48 USERS PROGRAMMABLE RHYTHIM PATTERNS
40 TO 240 BEATS PER MINUTE
6 TRACKS
1 TO 16 STEPS
ACCENT (-3 to +3)
PITCH  (-7 to +7)
LEVEL (0 to +5)
DRUM VOICES: 	bass drum 1,2;snare drum 1,2,3; low,high timbale;
		low,mid,high tom 1,2; open high conga, low conga;
		open,closed hi-hat;crash,ride,china cymbal;
		cup; rim shot; hand clap; claves; mute hi conga;
		shaker; cowbell; tambourine; low,high agogo;
REAR PANEL:	Mono/Stereo out jack (R) & (L)
		Headphone jack
		Multi out jacks
		Start/Stop Jack
		Trigger Out Jack
		tape in/out jack
		Tape sync in jack
		Tape sync out jack
		MIDI IN connector
		MIDI OUT connector
		Memory Card Slot
		AC Adaptor Jack (9V)
DIMENSIONS:	400x194x55 mm
WEIGHT:		2 lb and 14 oz
ACCESORIES:	MEMORY CARD M-128D !!
		MANUALS
(NO AC ADAPTOR)

CONDITIONS:   	AS NEW



MAKE OFFER DIRECTLY TO   sotoc@egr.msu.edu
DON'T POST
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: daviess@gov.on.ca (Stephen Davies)
Subject: K2000 SCSI/Hard disk problems *bah humbug*
Summary: SCSI hard disk problems on K2000
Keywords: K2000 SCSI
Organization: Government of Ontario
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:11:47 GMT

Last night I tried to install a Syquest external 88 Megabyte cartridge
hard drive on a K2000.  It didn't work and I'm not sure if the problem
was with the K2000, hard drive or ?.

When the drive was connected to the K2000's SCSI port, the K2000 would
"hang up" and no sequence of button pushing would bring it to life.  I
was using SCSI address 6 on the drive, if I set the K2000 menu up to the
"disk" SCSI ID 6 menu, the K2000 did not recognize the drive.  I tried a
variety of different power on orders ie. drive powered on then K2000 &
vice versa.  If I powered down the drive the K2000 mwould come back to
life and allow menu selections etc.  This would seem to me to indicate
that there was a SCSI communication problem (?).

However, I can't be sure that this drive is working.  I mounted the bare
Syquest mechanism in a box designed for use as an external mac hard
drive box.  This installation was pretty straight forward except for the
the connection of the ribbon cable for the SCSI port ID switch.  The
documentation that I had (for the CRU mac external box) did not
specifically detail the pin connectors for the SCSI ID switch for a
Syquest drive.  On the back of the Syquest drive there was two rows of 7
pins with a jumper attached to the pin at the top row second from the
left as follows:

XXXXXOX
XXXXXXX

The only diagram found in the box's documentation which had this
arrangement of SCSI ID pin connectors indicated that the two 3 pin
connectors on the box's ribbon cable should be attached as follows:

XXoooO
XXoooO

where the O means the jumper and ooo is the 3 pin ribbon cable
connector.  The bottom 3 pin connector was labelled C (common) and the
top 3 pin connector was positioned with pin one being the leftmost pin
of the ooo connector.

Anyhow, I tried this combination with the results as described.  I was
reluctant to try different pin combinations until I know more about
this!  I will try the drive on my SCSI-equipped EPS, although I think
that it won't work as I had previous problems connecting an earlier
model Syquest 44 megabyte drive to my EPS!  I will also try the drive on
a Mac (previously the Syquest drive which did not work on my EPS worked
like a charm on a Mac?!).

I'd love to hear from you other netters who have attached hard disks to
your K2000 (or EPS for that matter).  What are your experiences?  I'd
also love to know the pin outs for the SCSI connector ID on the back of
the Syquest drive so that I can confirm what I've done is correct.

By the way I tried the drive with and without external SCSI termination
* No Effect *.

As I will be away from the Net over the next week, it might be better to
email a response to this as the news listings on my system are purged
quite frequently.

Happy sampling and a merry christmas!

daviess@gov.on.ca

BTW Kurzweil stated that they had not yet tested a Syquest drive on the
K2000, Ensoniq said they had and that it should have worked on my EPS.
From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Does anyone have anything BAD to say about the K2000?
Date: 22 Dec 92 05:28:27 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1992Dec21.190244.24039@engage.pko.dec.com> gibian@ljohub.enet.dec.com writes:
>
>The last two postings on this topic are interesting.  I'll see what
>I can do with them.  And yes, I agree the K2000 is a tad bit more
>advanced.  It only causes me to wonder why such a fundimental feature
>of the early synthesizers is missing from such a wonderful instrument?

Uh, what feature are we talking about?  I did not see the postings
mentioned here.

-- 
Scott Amspoker                       |    
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM |  Too bad ignorance isn't really
                                     |  bliss.  Then it could be outlawed.
scott@bbx.basis.com                  |
From: ruska@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dave Ruska)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:42:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Request for info:  Mackie CR-1604 mixer
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth

In rec.music.makers.synth, tim@ear-ache.mit.edu (Tim Wilson) writes:

> Could I get some feedback on the Mackie CR-1604 mixer?  I'd like to
> know (1) what people who have one think about it, why they bought it, 
> where they got it, and how much they paid to whom;

I didn't buy one.

>                                                and (2) why people
> who were looking at it *didn't* buy it, and what they got instead.

Well I'd tell you that I bought a DOD 1642 mixer instead of the Mackie 1604,
but I don't want to start a mixer war.  (If you really want to know, the 
DOD 1642 met my needs better than the Mackie for my use in live sound 
reenforcement as well as my home studio board).

Nothing against the Mackie - It's a great board.

If you really want to know the details of why I bought the DOD, email me.

> The mixer will be used in a gig context with synth and keyboard
> sources, and in the studio with microphone and electronic sources.
> There'll be effects processing in both contexts.
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Tim Wilson
> tim@ear-ache.mit.edu
> mit-eddie!mit-athena!tim

Dave           (preferred email addr:   daver@hpgrrd.gr.hp.com)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca (Blake Stone)
Subject: Re: K2000R. You don't scare me. Nyah!
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:45:28 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

> The K2000 sampling boards are definitely not available yet.

Sigh.  This is unfortunately true, Kurzweil confirms that they
are in the final beta-testing phase for the 2.0 ROMs (the
hardware for the sampling option was final quite a while back).
So the ship date remains at "any day now".

Still, I guess I'd rather have a late but stable release given
the ROM-based OS.  Definitely something to be said for a
ROM-based OS with RAM loadable patches like the Mac OS!

We could then get an early release and upgrade to something more
stable later.  Wait... I've heard that before!  Where's my 2.50
EPS OS?

I guess the wait is worth while after all.

Blake
bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: jeff@coho.austin.ibm.com (Jeffrey Schaver)
Subject: What's the deal with the KS-32 
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:04:59 GMT
Reply-To: jeff@coho.austin.ibm.com (Jeffrey Schaver)
Organization: IBM Austin

	I've been in the market for a synth in the $2K range with
weighted keys and I recently tried the ensoniq KS-32.  Does anyone
have anything to say about the KS-32s' quality of sounds, effects?
Does anyone consider it a good buy.  Has anyone else tried playing
one and have anything to say about it?

	Thanks! E-mail replies would be great.

		Jeff
From: quantum@mfci.UUCP (Quantum Audio Concepts)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Q: Synth dust covers.
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:27:38 GMT
Reply-To: quantum@mfci.UUCP (Quantum Audio Concepts)
Organization: Bell Atlantic Business Systems Service Branford, Ct.

In article <Jan.3.16.58.14.1993.28292@pilot.njin.net> knutsen@pilot.njin.net (Mark Knutsen) writes:
>While I'm asking questions (ref. my previous on Std MIDI): A long
>while ago I bought a very nice dust cover for my Korg SG-1D from
>Valley Designs in Cambridge, Mass. Unfortunately, I believe they're
>now out of business; can anyone recommend another maker?



Le Cover, 1 North 353 Bloomingdale Road, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188
800-228-3878


I have bought 7 covers from these guys, 4 of which were custom made.
They are all well made, fit great (with cut outs for cables), and
reasonably priced. They have a large selection of covers for keyboards,
mixers, drum machines, amps, recorders, effects and computers.

I would recommend them without reservation. 

And now for the usual disclaimer, that I am not affiliated with them in
any way other than as a satisfied customer!

Gary
From: cc977@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Novak)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: PC MidiCard & Cakewalk vs. Soundblaster Pro ???
Date: 26 Dec 1992 20:15:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Hi!

I have a IBM Clone PC/XT ("Turbo 8088") and a Korg DSS-1.  I am
intesting in putting the two together and doing some MIDI 
sequencing type stuff, just for fun.  

So, am I better off with a MusicQuest PC MIDI Card and Cakewalk
software, or opting for a SoundBlaster Pro with it's built in
MIDI interface and bundled sequencing software??

Does anyone know if I could even use a SB Pro in an 8bit 8088 
machine?  The SoundBlaster interests me because of it's synthesis
and sampling capabilities (my DSS-1 is NOT multi-timbral).  But,
I imagine the PC MIDI Card is the "right" way to do it if I want
to expand into more complicated MIDI stuff sometime in the future.

Any insight into either of these methods would be greatly
apreciated!!

Thanks,

Mike Novak
cc977@cleveland.freenet.edu

P.S.:  Personal replies (or cc's) are preferable as I don't get
       read newsgroups often... :)
From: glewis@pcocd2.intel.com (Glenn M. Lewis - ICD ~)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Searching for Sounds
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:23:52 GMT
Reply-To: glewis@pcocd2.intel.com
Distribution: rec
Organization: Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA
X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.14.1


	I was in a music store that had a lot of synths, and I played
one that had a truly amazing pipe organ sound in stereo (or so it
seemed...I am pretty sure there were no effects boxes attached to its
output).  Anybody know what this was?  I can't remember.  I think it
was possible an Ensoniq or Korg, but don't know the model number.  Oh,
and the keyboard was velocity-sensitive.

	While I'm here, is there an FAQ list or simply a list of the
built-in sounds available for the most popular synths?  Is there a
list of popular keyboard synths and rackmount (keyboard-less) synths?
I am not a professional musician, but want to get a nice synth...
(with programmability and a host of nice built-in sounds).

	Thanks!  E-mail replies would be great.

							-- Glenn
--
Glenn Lewis | glewis@pcocd2.intel.com | These are my opinions...not Intel's
From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Lexicon LXP-5 and Lead Vocals
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:28:43 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1hnh8kINNbn8@shelley.u.washington.edu> freewill@carson.u.washington.edu (William Kaufman) writes:
>  I finally got the Lexicon LXP-5 I've been wanting for lead vocals and
>so far it's everything I hoped it would be. Great 'verb.  But I was a
>little confused about how it works. I noted the 2 algorithms it uses.
>(together? separately?) I'm looking for the classic "doubled" lead vocal
>with reverb. Assuming it can make this effect, would it use the delay or
>the pitch shifting for the doubling effect?

I can't comment on the algorithms available on the LXP-5 but vocal
doubling typically invovles both a delay and pitch shift.  Since
pitch shifters inherently have a small delay in them you could
probably get by with just a minor pitch shift.  Another vocal effect
I like from time to time is the dual fully panned left/right vocals.
This seems to sound best with the original vocal on one side with
the slightly delayed vocal on the other side (no pitch shift).
Select the minimum delay time that creates the necessary stereo
separation.  This doesn't create a typical "doubling" effect but
it certainly wakes up the listener.

-- 
Scott Amspoker                       |    
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM |  Too bad ignorance isn't really
                                     |  bliss.  Then it could be outlawed.
scott@bbx.basis.com                  |
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From: khaberl@BBN.COM (Karl Haberl)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.synth
Subject: Some Holiday Fun
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:36:47 GMT
Reply-To: khaberl@BBN.COM (Karl Haberl)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


I'm on my way out the door and feeling a little silly, and found myself
humming Jingle Bells. Try this alternate set of lyrics on for size:


Dashing to and fro, cause my transformer's just been fried.
The keys are starting to glow and the LCD just died.
But the fader's not in reach, and the solo's drawing nigh.
What fun it is to dance and sing while your brand new synth's on fire!

Oh! Jingle bells, something smells, I think it's my new board!
Why is it that flames are shooting out my SCSI port?
Hey! Jingle bells, plastic gels in pools right near my feet,
Why oh why didn't I buy that cooling fan last week?

A day or two ago, I thought I'd take this gig.
How was I know to know they'd be roasting a live pig?
Now I like ham and eggs, and bacon tastes fantastic.
But a barbecue is not the place for 3G's worth of plastic.

Oh! Jingle bells, someone yells "Fire!" in the club.
Guess it's time to take Performer out of overdub.
Hey! Jingle bells, a living hell for samplers everywhere:
A symphony of cacophonic sound with no free RAM to spare.


Happy holidays folks,


Karl Haberl
Internet: khaberl@bbn.com
From: bx955@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Todd Glazier)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Wanted: Ensoniq Soundscape specs
Date: 23 Dec 1992 05:08:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bx955@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Todd Glazier)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Hey! Has anyone managed to get any specs from Ensoniq on their new card,
or reember any from recent mags?

I'm thinking about starting a mailing list (for the card), but
it seems pretty useless without anything to talk about.....

Thanx!

Michae Todd
-- 

Xref: sparky rec.music.makers.synth:952 rec.music.makers:11653
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:57:17 IST
From: <P82038@BARILVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.makers
Subject:    Info needed on Yamaha B200 synth

I bought recently a used YAMAHA B-200 digital synthesizer for very little
beeing interested to enter the electronic music world. Unfortunately I
don't have any info on it. Is it available still on the market ? How much
it cost nowadays (new/used), how it compares to the famous models of Yamaha
or other synthesizers ? What is it's main use and are they any special uses,
like MIDI connection to computers ? Technical specifications ?
Anything will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Nadav Senator - Bar Ilan Univ. in Israel
From: lclarke@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lee Clarke)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Question: Sequencer's and SysEx...
Date: 31 Dec 92 21:06:51 GMT
Reply-To: lclarke@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lee Clarke)
Followup-To: rec.music.makers.synth
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In rec.music.makers.synth, bryanc@stargate.jpl.nasa.gov (Bryan S. Campbell) writes:
>    I have a silly question.  Could those of you that are using higher-end
>computer sequencing software help me out?
>
>    I need a sequencer that will send note information, and SysEx info
>_simultaneously_.  For example, suppose I want to change the VCF of a tone
>on my Super JX, mid-sequence and vary it durring a song a song (like maybe
>8 steps a second).  What software on the Mac, or PC could do that
>(preferably the Mac, but I'm interested in the PC too)?   Would it depend
>on how fast I was sending note info, and on how many channels I was sending
>it?

I have Cadenza for DOS WINDOWS v 2something. I bought it because it
allows me to record my JD800 slider changes in real time as I  play
the keyboard. I can edit the sysex info in the sequencer, and play it
back it. It is really nice to watch the sequencer play back my filter
cutoff changes and TVF, TVE, TVA, waveform, LFO changes, etc !

I tried the Cadenza DEMO for windows. It was v 1.03, 1.13, whatever.
It was buggy and crashed and it made me think twice before buying the
real version 2xx program.  I'm happy with it.

WinCake does not handle MIDI sysex performance control. It only uses
sysex to handle patch dumps and lib issues.

I don't know the rate at which sysexe is recorded by Cadenza, if bytes
are dropped to prevent MIDI choke, etc. I can analyze that by running
SPG MIDI dump analyzer, I believe.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: malouin@engin.umich.edu (Curt Malouin)
Subject: Re: Q: Standard MIDI playback boxes.
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 19:52:10 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <Jan.3.16.48.14.1993.28124@pilot.njin.net> knutsen@pilot.njin.net (Mark Knutsen) writes:
>Whomever can answer, please do: Does anyone besides Roland make a box
>(a la Sound Brush) that plays back Standard MIDI files?  I'd like to
>consider one for performance uses.

I think the Alesis Data Disk can also do this.  It is a one-space
rack unit with a 3.5" drive.  Saves SysEx dumps, too.

>If there really is a variety of choices, any recommendations?

Sorry, I haven't either.

	-curt
From: khaberl@bbn.com (Karl Haberl)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: K2000R. You don't scare me. Nyah!
Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:16:52 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: khaberl@bbn.com (Karl Haberl)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <BzHpsC.LE.1@cs.cmu.edu> sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu writes:
>
>    From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
>    
>    Can the K2000 be fed via SMDI from something like a Peavey SX? They're only
>    $400 or so. (If you want stereo sampling, you'd have to buy two...)

I would expect that creating and editing stereo samples by putting 2
essentially independent mono samples together might present some difficulties.
But I'm just speculating since I have no hands-on experience with sampling
(still waiting for the K2000 sampling option). Working with 2 separate SX
units, I would think that you'd need to worry about triggering them
to sample simultaneously, or else suffer the loss of phase coherence, which
is difficult to achieve after the fact. Does the SX support a mode where one
unit can trigger another?

Do Alchemy and/or Sound Designer have utilities for creating/editing stereo
samples given that the initial L/R samples are independent/non-coherent?

>Well, the manual addendum for the 1.2 chips says that it accepts SMDI from
>a Mac running programs such as Alchemy or Max.  Would that imply that the
>Peavey would work as a source of samples?

The Peavey SX *should* work as a source of (mono) samples. The question is how
you initiate the transfer. I would expect that they probably set it up so
that you could request transfer from the DP3 or the SP by pushing a
button or two. Since I don't have Kurzweil OS 1.2, I don't know what UI support
they provide for accomplishing the transfer. Is that all the 1.2 manual
addendum says about SMDI?

By the way, back when I was looking at the SX/SP combo I found out that
there is a MAX utility for the Mac that will allow you to control various
options on the SX (e.g., sample size, sample rate, etc.). There are
apparently more options available on the SX than can be accessed from its
front panel alone (only certain sample rates accessible from the front
panel, for example). Assuming you have MaxPlay, as I remember the utility
would cost you $39.


Karl Haberl
Internet: khaberl@bbn.com
From: scholz@PRC.Unisys.COM (Bill Scholz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Importing Downloaded Patches into Galaxy
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:27:46 GMT
Reply-To: scholz@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Paoli Research Center; Paoli, PA

I have recently located and downloaded a number of patches for my Kawai
K1, but keep falling into potholes in my attempts to import the downloaded
patches into Galaxy.  I've hacked the downloaded files with resedit to
iBnd and Glxy, but have been unable to pursuade  Galaxy to look kindly
upon them.   Does anybody have any suggestions, or can anyone point me
to docs on solving such problems?

Thanks in advance,
-- 

- Bill Scholz
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: bryanc@stargate.jpl.nasa.gov (Bryan S. Campbell)
Subject: Question: Sequencer's and SysEx...
Followup-To: rec.music.makers.synth
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratories
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:54:04 GMT



    I have a silly question.  Could those of you that are using higher-end
computer sequencing software help me out?

    I need a sequencer that will send note information, and SysEx info
_simultaneously_.  For example, suppose I want to change the VCF of a tone
on my Super JX, mid-sequence and vary it durring a song a song (like maybe
8 steps a second).  What software on the Mac, or PC could do that
(preferably the Mac, but I'm interested in the PC too)?   Would it depend
on how fast I was sending note info, and on how many channels I was sending
it?

    Also, are there any programs on the mac that serve as user-programmable
generic SysEx editors?  I'd like a program that I could say, assign a
certain value to a "virtual" knob (and tweak it real-time), and perhaps
create an envelope graph with assignable vectors.  Once again, I'd prefer
info on Mac programs (but if there's something really amazing on the PC,
that might sway me).

Thanks for indulging my ignorance...

Bryan C.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth