A year ago I released Explorations Vol. 2 , my second patch set for the JD-800 and compatibles. I haven't stopped creating patches in the meantime, so here's another set of 64 fresh patches for your JD from pads to bells, from leads to basses, from plucks to sound effects. You can purchase the sound...

Ten months ago I released Explorations Vol. 1 , my first patch set for the JD-800 and compatibles. I haven't stopped creating patches in the meantime, so here's another set of 64 fresh patches for your JD from pads to bells, from leads to basses, from plucks to sound effects. You can purchase the so...

I've been creating quite a few patches since I got my JD-800 almost 1.5 years ago, and now I'm ready to share them with the rest of the world. This will hopefully turn into a little series of patch banks, and today I present you the first volume of this series: Explorations Vol. 1 - 64 patches from ...

EPs as in E-Pianos?
I have tons of unsorted SY-99 patches - I was looking for TG-77 stuff and just downloaded everything I could find no matter whether it's 77 or 99. I have no idea what's inside those SY-99 files but I can send them for you to explore.

The first batch of 9 boards was sold in less than a day, but fear not - another batch is on its way and will be available in January 2024.

It's me again, with a new memory expansion! A while ago I finally got hold of a Kawai K5000R. Unfortunately, it was one of the many poor K5000s that didn't come with the ME-1 memory expansion. If you have a K5000, you probably know very well how quickly you run out of patch space without this memory...

I'm with Tekhed66 on this one. Of course it could be legit but if it is, they didn't try very hard to make it look so. Some more red flags in additions to the ones already raised: - The given address is a residential address. Look it up on Google Streeview. - The promise of fixing any problematic sy...

Most of the times when single pixel rows (or columns) are stuff, it's not the display that's dead but a connector being loose. Re-soldering the display connector may (or may not) help.

With the Space Station patch it may depend a bit on how you play it. But with this patch you should always hear the clicks, as they no longer depend on note velocity and other factors.

To add some closure to this topic, after being able to test this on another K2500 I was able to confirm that it's not just my unit. In OS version 2.99 the bug doesn't exist, only in 3.02. The latest KDFX OS version is also affected.

Poor Nigel!

Out of curiosity, what's the issue with the display?

As I have done many small fixes for my synthesizers over the year, I wanted to document and share them in a central place instead of scattering the knowledge over multiple forums - some of these things (e.g. which replacement tact switches to buy) I haven't really documented anywhere before. Here's ...

Wow, so I guess version 1.01 is the outlier, not version 1.04? :o It really makes me wonder - increasing the startup time by 2.5x isn't something that should go unnoticed during testing, and I cannot quite imagine what important things the synth would be doing during startup that take so much longer...

Update: I reverted back to my previous 1.01 (not 1.02 as I thought) EPROM, and startup time is back to about 3.5 seconds.

I don't really know if that would work, as I'm sure that a lot of the code highly depends on being able to be executed at a certain speed. But we can compare: With version 1.04, the startup sequence from pressing the power button to seeing the currently selected patch on display is almost exactly 9 ...