Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!gibson From: gibson@unc.UUCP (Bill Gibson) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: State of the art questions Message-ID: <159@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:23:16 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.159 Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:23:16 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 05:27:04 EDT References: <706@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: gibson@unc.UUCP (Bill Gibson) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 25 Summary: In article <706@brl-tgr.ARPA> ron@brl (Ron Natalie) writes: > The TX-816 however, is useless unless you have a DX-7 o program it. > Yamaha also sells a box with a small front panel called the TX-7, > for about $650. As with the TX-816, it is reliant on the DX-7 for > programming, however, it comes with a cassette interface, so you > dump entire DX-7 banks onto the cassette for storage (beats $80 ram > cartridges). The added feature in both units is some keyboard split > functions so that you don't need to have eight different midi channels > active. Mostly right, except that the TF-1 modules (DX-7 equivalents) in the TX-816 can also be programmed using DX-7 voicing software on a microcomputer with a MIDI interface. I haven't actually tried this yet, but it's what I was told at a local store. I really don't consider the DX-7 front panel to be a reasonable interface for programming, anyway. I will get some software to do my DX-7 programming on a micro (e.g. a Commodore 64) as soon as I can figure out which of the many available programs is most worthwhile. Does anybody have suggestions/experience with these programs? Bill Gibson gibson@unc ...[akgua,decvax,philabs]!mcnc!unc!gibson