I've been working on trying to write some brief bios for people who were important in the development of synthesizers. I've got a question I've been trying to find the answer to, and so far I haven't turned up any references. The question: I know that Moog and Buchla independently came up with the i...

All it needs is Lily Tomlin, saying "one ringey-dingey..."

He also had the first production Emulator.

I'll check the firmware version on mine this weekend.

There's some confusing terminology here; the word "module" gets used in two different contexts. A "module" can refer to a rack-mounted synth which lacks a keyboard and can only be played via MIDI. They are often re-packaged forms of keyboard synths, with the keyboard removed and the electronics rear...

Unless the 1000x editor, midiquest, and the cykong device panel all used the wrong set of commands, then I would have to say that the edit buffer one was used since they all behaved the same way. This has been discussed a number of times here and I have never seen a clear reason why it happens nor ...

The Dixie Dregs albums were Dregs of the Earth and Unsung Heroes. Lavitz had, I'm pretty sure, it was a Rev1 (it had had the cassette interface added), and over the years it acquired several mods. There was a famous publicity photo at the time of Dregs of the Earth with all of the band members sitti...

Do you guys that are having the problems with tweaking the M1000 know exactly what sysex sequences are being sent? There's one set of sysex commands for modifying the edit buffer, and another one for writing directly to the patch memory. If you use the latter, I could see it behaving tha way.

The 3630 doesn't have a rep as a good-quality compressor, sorry to say. But it shouldn't be doing this. When you have both synths connected, what's connected to which channel? Does it make any difference if you switch them? And are you sure you haven't accidentally plugged one of your sources into a...

I've got a TG33. To be honest, it's been kind of ignored lately; I've been busy thrashing a V-Synth and a Morpheus and trying to repair a Fizmo... too many new arrivals at one time. The little bit that I've played with it has been fairly interesting, although the actual vector stuff that I've tried ...

I wonder tho... because i've sniffed the output of my matrix6 to try to read the sysex and it never sends anything! (yknow.. when 'tweeking' parameters...) NO information leaves the box, so I don't know how it would control a M1000 .. It doesn't work that way. You can, however, dump a patch from th...

justin_havu wrote: EML Electrocomp 101 (module died and was unfixable)

That's a shame. What happened to it?

Juno 6, Juno 60 DCO: Standard Ic. Juno 106 DCO: MC5534A [...] Juno 6, Juno 60 VCF: IR3109 VCA: BA662 Juno 106 VCF: A1QH800170 or A1QH80017A VCA: A1QH800170 or A1QH80017A I know, I know, but... The "standard ICs" portion of the DCO on the Juno-60 is just the counter that times the oscillator period,...

It is on the 60, but not the 6 weirdly enough. I heard this is because Roland couldn't find the space to store it as a continuous value in the preset memories, like the rest of the parameters or some such. Don't know if that was the motivation or not, but a variable setting would not be possible be...

Of the ones I've tried, I have to say the JD-800/990, and the V-Synth. Hope to add the Solaris to that list soon.