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From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
Subject: Re: What are 303's and 808's?
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Distribution: inet
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:53:55 GMT

eric@nit.pactel.com (Eric Pederson) writes:
>The TR505 has the following sounds (16 total):
<stuff deleted about the TR505>
>The sounds are very basic and you can't modify them, other than with the
>accents and MIDI velocities.

OK - It must be the Boss unit I'm thinking of.  I had a brief demo from
a friend a year ago.  It had 7 drumkits with everything from the TR808
to scratches and Kraftwerk percussion.  I believe the SoundCanvas has
this same ROM - certainly it has *heaps* of percussion.

The sounds *weren't* modifiable, but there was lots of them :-)

Why does Roland insist on maintaining the Boss label?  Just to boost
their guitar pedal sale I guess...

(Boss and Roland gear is made in the same factory.  It's just a
labelling exercise, though of course the products aren't necessarily
competitive)

Rob

It seems the news distribution rate is better with so many people on
holidays...

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From: ee91ajh@brunel.ac.uk (Adam J Holt)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Getting Airplay
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:35:00 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

I would like to compile a list of addresses of radio stations around the world
that will play unreleased (or small distribution) records.  I really want to
just concentrate this list on dance related music (rave, jazz-funk, swingbeat,
house, garage, hip-hop, etc.) radio stations/DJs.  The sort of stations that
I'm after are ones that reach a sizable audience, and will happily play stuff
that isn't necessarily going to be available in all major record-shops next
week.

Please include the station name and address (+tel if available), rough guess
of audience size, and names of suitable DJs and the particular types of
dance music that they play.

If I get some response to this (by email please) then I will post the list back
that will include my own list of London based radio stations.  Hopefully this
could be a useful source to unsigned artists striving some (global)
recognition.

cheers...
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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: morrowjp@rtsg.mot.com (Jerry P Morrow)
Subject: ** Help: 2 keys on my Roland U-20 are intermittent **
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:27:19 GMT

Two keys on my Roland U-20 don't work very well anymore,
probably because I never put a dust cover on the keyboard.
Any ideas how to clean the contacts myself??

Jerry 
morrowjp@adobe.rtsg.mot.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.makers,comp.music,alt.rave
From: tsines@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (enhanced invisible life [Todd Sines])
Subject: Re: What are 303's and 808's?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: inet
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:53:15 GMT

hey, the 909 to the best of my knowledge, does not have any SYNC. maybe tape 
sync but it doesn;t produce both a MIDI clock out as well as a SYNC clock out, 
UNLIKE the 707.

and, the 505 doesn't have almost any of the sounds that the 808 or 909's have. 
i think it is the saddest drum machine, sound wise, that roland has ever made. 
ugh


sines
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From: cacclin@fraser.sfu.ca (Stephen Cacclin)
Subject: Alesis synth???
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:14:27 GMT

Has anyone heard any information about Alesis releasing a synth. I have
only overheard whispers...something about 64 voice and analog-sounding.
Sounds juicy!!
From: plemmons@mth.msu.edu (Steve Plemmons)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: U220 vs. Sound Canvas
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:00:18 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers.synth
Organization: Michigan State University, Dept. of Mathematics
NNTP-Posting-Host: plemmons.mth.msu.edu

Could someone give me the low down on the difference between the Roland U-220 and
the Roland SC-55.  I get varying answers from salesmen, and I want the net.truth.

Thanks so much!

Steve
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From: au462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert Drake)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Sam Ash O.K.?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 00:41:54 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


mike sez:

>Has anyone had any good or bad experiences with mail ordering
>instruments from "Sam Ash Music"

i regularly buy mikes (shure sm57 & 58) from sam, with nary a
problem, and consistantly the lowest prices around.  i also often
call them for a price quote on other equipment & then use that as
a bargining trick at my local music store--i PREFER to buy locally
(service, & it's to my advantage to have a music store in the area);
i also prefer to get the best deal i can, and saying to the salesman
"i could order this from sam ash for $xx" will usually get him to
knock down his price some.  it's a tough world out there...

yrs
luigi
From: mikes@mas1.UUCP (Mike Shevell)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Sam Ash O.K.?
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:43:29 GMT
Organization: Measurex Automation Systems, Cupertino CA

Hi Folks,

    Has anyone had any good or bad experiences with mail ordering instruments
from "Sam Ash Music"?

	Thanks,

		Mike
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
X-Sender:  (Unverified)
Subject: Re: Re:Wavestation limitations
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:45:41 +0000

>The Wavestation's effects processor provides two simultaneous, dis-
>crete effects, each of which can provide any of the 55 available 
>effects programs (except for the two 9-band stereo vocoders, which 
>use the entire processor).

Yes, BUT: you can't switch them in any way under external MIDI control
without killing all voices. This is the big drawback.

>still 
>others are comprised of two discrete mono effects, such as a mono 
>delay on the left and distortion on the right.

...the problem with this being that without an automated mixer the
resulting signals come out hard-panned.

>To allow one Performance special effects while others are 
>dry or less processed, the Wavestation's serial effects routing 
>enables you to route sounds around the effects entirely (to appear 
>dry at the 3/4 outputs) or to route the sounds through only the sec-
>ond of the two effects, even when other sounds are going through 
>both.

...the problem with this being that the sub outputs (3, 4) are always
active, so you'll need automated muting to make the most of it.

>This is changed in the new Wavestation SR, 
>in which the Multisets themselves store FX Bussing for each of 
>their 16 Performances; this makes editing Multiset FX much more 
>convenient.

That's a change for the worse, since it means that specific multiset slots
have different behaviour, making multitimbral program changes a headache.
What the WS is lacking is a system like the late lamented VFX, where
performances can be placed under MIDI control into the multiset and have
their effects setup (algorithms and/or routing) optionally loaded as well.

                      Nick Rothwell  |  "Say, how many contemporary dancers
   CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance  |     are there in this bar?"
        cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk  |  "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens
        cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk  |     and divide by two..."
From: quantum@mfci.UUCP (Quantum Audio Concepts)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Voice tranfer Yamaha TG33 to SY22 or SY35
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:26:33 GMT
Reply-To: quantum@mfci.UUCP (Quantum Audio Concepts)
Organization: Bell Atlantic Business Systems Service Branford, Ct.
Keywords: SY22 TG33

In article <C0pLnw.1KJ5@austin.ibm.com> ...@cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!aspencer.austin.ibm.com!aspencer writes:
>
>I was pleased to see that the follow-on SY35 synth seems to have equivalent 16
>bit waves in the same slots as the SY22, and apparently can accept 3rd party or
>user cards for SY22. I tried to transfer voices I'd created on a TG33 with no
>luck; apparently the TG33 format is slightly more complex due to additional 

The sys-ex for the SY22/35 is different than the TG33. They moved a few things
around and added some parameters. Also, the TG33 will let you do sys-ex edits
of individual parameters, so if your sequencer supports sys-ex messages, you
could change parameters in "real" time (but only if you are running 1 channel,
not multi-timbral, as the parameter edits are done in the typical Yamaha edit
buffer). I don't think the 22/35 will do this (the only sys-ex doc I saw for 
the 22 had only bulk info and the parameter descriptions for a single patch
dump).

>effects parameters, etc. I think you can use SY22 voices on a TG33 easily, but

I was able to use SY22 ROMs in the TG33. I never tried TG33 ROMs in a 22.
RAM cards didn't work - they had to be formated as SY or TG.
From: mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Weighted controller question
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:29:48 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory

Greetings!

  I seem to remember that I was looking through Keyboard or some
similar mag once, and saw an ad for an 88-key weighted controller
that said something like "programmable escapement", or maybe
"variable escapement".  I've always thought it'd be cool to have a
controller that could switch between a synth-type action and a
weighted action.  Anybody know of such a beast?  I can't find the
ad now....

  Second question:  Peavey DPM-C8 (I think that's it).  Keyboard
gave this thing a great review, and the price is not bad.  The only
thing it doesn't have that I'd like is poly aftertouch.  Anybody
actually own one?  Do you like it?

  Finally:  Anybody heard anything about an 88-key version of the
Kurzweil K2000?  (Something analogous to the 88-key version of the
1200?)

Thanks,
--Mike
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: kanko@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Mark Kanko)
Subject: WANTED: Yamaha DOM-30
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:16:34 GMT

The DOM-30 is a combination 10-track sequencer and 100-sample
MIDI unit with digital reverb usually marketed for the 
Clavinova digital piano line.

Please direct responses via Email.

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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant)
Subject: Re: techno addicts and the DR-660
Keywords: techno synth drums analog
Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:41:56 GMT

In article <C0D7yM.4KL@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rmartin@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Martin) writes:
[about the 660]

	Y'know, it's funny... I see plenty of discussion on various Roland
	machines, and other makes as well.  But one model number I never see
	mention of is the R70.  (Actually, now that I write this, I'm not sure
	about the 'r', but I _am_ about the 70.  Drugs, I guess... ;)

	A friend of mine picked this up a few months ago when Medley had their
	annual blowout.  Think he paid somewhere around 500 or so.

	We think this is an incredible, extremely realistic-sounding little
	box.  Anyone else have any opinions on it??


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From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:52:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Mackie 1202 Mixer
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth

One arguement in favor of buying a new one; they ain't perfect.  Mine had
a poor solder joint and it had to go back to Mackie for repairs.  I'd rather
it go under warranty than not; especially if the difference is 15-25 dollars.

I love mine, and even if I outgrow it, will hang onto the 1202.  I just wish
they made a 1-2U rackmount line mixer with the same amplifiers.

Pete Brooks

Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: mikelle@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu (Eddie H. Mikell)
Subject: Wanted - a Mirage
Organization: Darden Center, University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:07:54 GMT

I would like to purchase a Mirage in good working order.  I do not need a 
rack mount unit.

Thanks

Eddie Mikell
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
X-Sender:  (Unverified)
Subject: Re: Midi patchbay
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:25:58 +0000

>#1 recommend models that fit these requirements ?

MOTU MIDI Time Piece II. (You need a Mac to get some of the functionality;
I'd have to check which.)

>#2 recommend somewhere to mail order one ?

Sound Deals, Alabama.

>#3 give me a rough idea on price ?

< $400.

                      Nick Rothwell  |  "Say, how many contemporary dancers
   CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance  |     are there in this bar?"
        cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk  |  "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens
        cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk  |     and divide by two..."

Xref: sparky rec.music.makers.synth:984 rec.music.synth:19713 misc.forsale:34493
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.synth,misc.forsale
Subject: Re: SALE!Mackie1202,CM-32L,rackstand,MPU-IMC
From: mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 4 Jan 93 06:43:58 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University

In article <Fvb=Pt@engin.umich.edu>, malouin@engin.umich.edu (Curt Malouin) writes:
> In article <1993Jan2.033448.15205@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Scott.E.Lawrence@dartmouth.edu (Scott E. Lawrence) writes:
>>Ok, I have the following for sale:
>>Mackie 1202 Mixer                  $300
> 
> $300 seems a bit high for a used 1202.
> I picked one up new in October for $325.
> Great mixer, BTW>                 
I got one for xmass from my better half. She said it was new and she paid
only 325$ also.
david
From: marty@srl.mew.mei.co.jp (Marty Chumbes)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Discussion group of mailing list for Korg 01/W series users.  Are there any?
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:04:35 GMT
Organization: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd., Osaka, Japan


Hello,

	Happy New Year!! :) I know this is really really late, but let me say thanks to
all those who responded to my query a long time ago about the Korg 01/W pro.  I did finally
buy one just before the end of the year and I'm enjoying it very much.  Being that this is 
my first keyboard, I've been spending countless hours of playing and modifying some of the preset voices as well as some composition writing.  However, I have one question:  Are there any mailing list or discussion groups spefically dedicated for Korg 01/W series users that I join?  If there is, how can I join?  I think I saw a while while back about mailing list or discussion groups of particular keyboard users, especially K2000, but I was wondering there is such for Korg 01/W series users?  Any informati







on would be gladly appreciated.


							Many many thanks,

							   Marty
From: ariasmig@gel.ulaval.ca (Miguel Arias)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: SY22 vs SY35
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:21:21 GMT
Reply-To: ariasmig@gel.ulaval.ca
Organization: Dept. Genie Electrique, Universite Laval


Hi everybody,

I am planning to by a synth for MIDI/computer music experimentation and keyboard learning. I am looking for a low price unit and I
would like to hear comentaries about the SY22 vector synth. from YAMAHA, as well as its newer version the SY35

Does the vector synth. offers any advantages in the sound quality?

I'm not an expert on this  field, so I would appreciate any comentary of you the more experienced.

Thank you.

Miguel 
ariasmig@gel.ulaval.ca
From: adamsj@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: CD-ROM Drives & K2000R
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:13:38 -0800
Organization: GTE Govt. Systems, Electronics Def. Div.

I need feedback from anyone who uses (or knows a lot about) a CD-ROM drive with
their sampler (or whatever instrument). In particular, I want to know if anyone 
uses the NEC CDR-74. I want to use it with a Kurzweil K2000R. Kurzweil says 
only Sony and Toshiba drives have been tested at this time, but Sony is quite 
expensive, and I have never forgiven Toshiba for being involved is selling that
milling machine to the USSR (used to make quiet propelors for submarines,
setting us back about 5-10 years). PLEASE HELP!
-Jeff Adams
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cwilson@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Chris Wilson)
Subject: Re: E-Mu vintage keys Proteus module
Organization: Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:20:58 GMT

rost@tecrus.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost) writes:
>In article <76458@apple.apple.COM>, bing@Apple.COM (Christopher R. Bingham) writes...
>>I called E-Mu today about this module.  The woman told me that it was
>>shipped to European dealers last month and is shipping to U.S. dealers
>>this month.  She expects it to be at U.S. dealers in about 2 weeks.
>>List price is $1095.
>
>Am I the only one wondering why the hell E-mu just didn't go with ROM cards or
>plug-in boards or *something* rather than making you buy four modules!!!!

I agree to some degree :^),  but the "Vintage Keys" module supposedly has all-new
filters added,  so the hardware is slightly different than the Proteus 1/2/3.

-Chris Wilson


Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.synth,misc.forsale
From: little@wizard.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Michael Little)
Subject: Re: SALE!Mackie1202,CM-32L,rackstand,MPU-IMC
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 16:50:19 GMT

No, I don't want to hear much more on this topic.

To be brief:

  I bought my Mackie 1202 mixer for $295 (new) two months ago.

  If I was selling something and the price was out of line, I'd
    like to know (it might explain why no one is buying it).

  If I wanted the item, thought the price and availability to my
    liking, I'd buy it anyway (maybe its nearby and I don't need to
    pay either tax or shipping, or wait for restocking, or whatever).

  If thinking about buying, it's nice to hear about these 'price is
    out of line' sanity checks - helps with the new vs used thinking.

					-Mike
From: rost@tecrus.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Wavestation limitation
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:00:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <C0J859.4G6@sci.kun.nl>, bartjan@sci.kun.nl (Bart-Jan Bouwers) writes...
>Hi,
> 
>I think one of the serious limitations of the Wavestation is that in
>multi-mode (use of multi setups) the effectsprocessors' scope is the
>whole range of 16 performances and NOT just 1 setting for each of the
>performances. It greatly reduces the power of the individual
>performances when you combine them in a multi-setup I think.
>What's your opinion about that? 
>Do you know of other synths that have this limitation? Is it common?
> 

Actually, in many synths there is *no difference* between a "performance" and a
"multi" so in that sense, the same limitation exists.  Certainly in most
Ensoniq and Yamaha synths this is the case.  I'd say it's common.

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From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:27:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Re:Wavestation limitations
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth

Looks like the Kurzweil K-2000 has the same limitation, since it has only
one F/X DSP.  BTW, the February issue of Keyboard has a clinic on the 
K-2000.  Curious, the MIDI implementation of the F/X is better than
Digitech's, though they are using the same algorithms.  Wonder if the
K-2000's Ultimate Reverb is as noisy as my DSP-256XLs?

Pete Brooks

From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:52:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Test flare to rec.music.makers.synth
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth

< M O O F >

Looks like it worked....

Pete Brooks
From: bing@Apple.COM (Christopher R. Bingham)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: E-Mu vintage keys Proteus module
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:18:54 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

I called E-Mu today about this module.  The woman told me that it was
shipped to European dealers last month and is shipping to U.S. dealers
this month.  She expects it to be at U.S. dealers in about 2 weeks.
List price is $1095.

Ironically, I had just been grumbling that what I really wanted was a 
clean, quiet, single-space module with lots of classic keyboard sounds
so I could at least get close to the sounds I want, since lugging around
a real Rhodes, ARP, Clavinet, Farfisa, etc. etc. is out of the question.
Sounds like this may do the trick!

Chris

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From: aruggeri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony Robert Ruggeri)
Subject: Re: Cakewalk for Windows demo?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: inet
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:11:24 GMT

In article <1iqhooINNe87@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin) writes:
>
>Does anybody know if there is a demo version of Cakewalk for Windows
>available at an FTP site?
>

Try ftp.cica.indiana.edu, in /pub/pc/win3/demo (or demos).


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