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From: gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re:  DX7 Documentation
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 11:45:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 11:45:06 1985
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I have a suggestion. After having picked up my DX a while back
and trying to wade through Fukuda's book and an early draft of
the user's manual (you think the *current* one is a little
difficult to follow......) and a few "It's easy to do" articles
in places like CKybd., it occurs to me that the lot of us should
get together and write a manual of our own. There are certainly
enough DX owners on the net, and enough people who are painfully
making the transition from analog synthesis to FM that we'd be
likely to come up with something which is at least useable. The
thing I'd most like to see written up has in some way to do with
constructing a sort of conceptual model that allows you to think
about the creation of sounds ("if you sit down to design a 20-foot
flute that overblows *very* easily and has little synpathetic
rattles on the inside that make noise when the thing is blown, you
start with.....")

Anyone out there interested in trying the thing out? Drop me a
line and we'll talk about it. We could even make some bucks on
the thing, I'll bet....but AT LEAST do a service to humankind.