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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
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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