By the tone it seems very likely to be a transistor organ, but I'm not sure which ones in 1964 would've been able to pull off the pitch-bends...

I know that sound from a bunch of oldschool tracker music - filename was REALBASS.SAM or thereabouts - but I don't know where that came from. Definitely has the FM character, but that doesn't necessarily mean DX7; the Synclavier also offered FM as an option, and it wouldn't surprise me if Amiga samp...

Man I've been here the whole time...!

I'm not gonna get too off in the weeds about what one wants to define as "vintage" and whether the window moves, but for myself, I started getting into hardware synthesizers right around the time the analog revival was really getting in gear, when there mostly weren't a pile of cheaper modern altern...

No, that's not the DX7 E.PIANO 1 patch - and it's not the DX7-II FullTines either (the Chicago track, at least, predates that.) I don't think it's any of the other factory patches from the add'l cartridges; might've been from a common third-party patch set making the rounds at the time.

Pretty much - the original Synclavier models were built around a repurposed minicomputer that was one of NED's earlier products, running its own OS and driving separate FM & sample recording/playback hardware; the rack housed all of that.

I was gonna suggest that it might be a dead offsite link, but no, it's pointed right to vintagesynth.com o_O Doesn't look like archive.org has it, either...

(Hmm, should probably check and see what tracks I've done since this place went dormant; can't remember which ones I have or haven't posted here. Definitely will have to start a thread when I finish my MFOS build...)

Yo!

Hey! Yeah, pretty quiet around here lately, but I'm glad it's still here.

Have you tried replacing the 8253? They're very common parts on account of being used in the IBM PC and clones (up 'til the point where those functions were integrated into larger-scale motherboard ASICs.)

I haven't actually done mine because it's not bad enough to be an issue.

Probably dirty sliders glitching out and changing parameters on you. My PG-800 does this a little.

That's pretty much exactly what I did, only A. I wrote it in FreeBasic, which is great for quick-proofing ideas but not so great for performance, and B. I wrote it in a fairly brute-force, unsmart fashion which hampered performance further. I started re-writing it a while back, but I think I lost th...

Gosh, I should get back to my DX7 patch deduplicator - wrote it years ago but it was dog-slow, and I never finished re-writing it in a more performant way...