EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 37, Issue 06 This issue's topics: ** S50 HELPPPP ** Korg Poly 800 help! Nakamichi DM-100 (2 messages) Question? (3 messages) retrofits (2 messages) Theremin (3 messages) Wavestation faces (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 00:07:04 CST From: Rod Lemcke Subject: ** S50 HELPPPP ** I saw your message about the S50 doing sample dumps to-and-from a computer. I cannot stress how important this is to me!! Where can I get it from?? Please respond when you can. Thanks... Rod L. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 03:44:32 PST From: Graham Bisset - ABJ Ops/Mac Support Subject: Korg Poly 800 help! Hi everyone, I was wondering whether someone out there could help me, I have managed to borrow a Korg Poly 800II machine for a short while for a musical project I am working on. What I would like to know is, is this keyboard multi-timbre? I suspect however that it is not since I cannot get it to play two different 'voices' at the same time, (or am I getting the terminology confused here)? I am using an Acorn Archimedes and various music packages, including Studio 24+ V2.0 While I'm here, (sorry if this is not allowed, but I didn't see any mention of it in the recent rules), does anyone have any good voice lists for this machine? The type of sounds I am looking for are - good deep bass, perhaps a trumpety type sound (among others), and also any other type of voices suitable for 'rave' music. If you do have voice lists, then send them to me by private e-mail to avoid clogging up this list, I will summarize to the net if requested. Thanks in advance. Graham Bisset Internet : bisset@abj.sinet.slb.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 17:03:48 CST From: "t.m.doc hamilton" Subject: Nakamichi DM-100 Trying to figure out a way to use this analog-digital sampler (Nakamichi DT-100) as a sound sampler. It takes analaog (line level, unbalanced) and gives an output that normally connects to a wide-band recording medium like the video track of VHS, SVHS, 3/4" umatic, you get the idea. This must be sampled at at least 22KHZ which is the highest sampling rate of Farallon's MacRecorder. Anyone out there tried using this digital output as a sampler, taking the place of MacRecorder A/D converter but using SoundEdit software. Or am I barking up the wrong tree. This is my first post so please excuse me if I am in error. Thanks. Doc Hamilton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 15:19:18 -0800 From: Tom Erbe Subject: Re: Nakamichi DM-100 The DM-100 has no digital output as far as I know, only digital information modulated on a video (NTSC) carrier. You could capture the video with a mac add-on board, but I doubt the mac is fast enough to decode it to PCM audio in real time. If you want to digitize sound on the mac with a higher quality than the Farrallon products, you should use one of Digidesign's boards (Audiomedia or Sound Accelerator). Tom Erbe * Technical Director * Center for Contemporary Music * Mills College tom@mills.edu * Mills College, Oakland, CA 94613 * (510) 430-2191 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 10:47:00 EDT From: RAY BROHINSKY Subject: Re: Question? in re: Nick and VFX Please, don't get the impression from my remarks that Nick didn't like the VFX, it's touch or sound. If I've been reading him correctly this last year, it's just the opposite. Loving the instrument and being able to put up with the lack of support from its creators was what I was referring to. (For newbies to the list, Nick lives in the UK, and Ensonique's support for the VFX, which did have some ripping bad problems in the early software and hardware, and which only started to get fixed in the months just before they discontinued it altogether, was non-existant in the UK. He finally had to give it up for a more robust keyboard (or two, or three) ). So please forgive me, Nick, if I set the wrong impression with my remarks: I'd have gotten the reworked VFX on my technical evaluation of the likelihood of it causing problems that I couldn't fix (a wariness I'd have lacked without your posts!) but I (We, actually, the ugly scene included me, my wife, my two sons, aged 1.5 and 11, and our Pastor, who is an accomplished pianist, and who had come to play so Deb could stand back and listen to what _we_ do on the VFX and decide if she liked it) was blocked by the salesman. Really odd feeling, after being in music for 30 years, to get thrown out of a music store for _trying_ to buy an instrument! With the mixed antecedents in the recent quote of Metlay's law: ``If you can't walk into a music store, See it, try it out /* probable misquote! */ and walk out the door with it, it doesn't exist.'' In my case, Caruso's must not exist, because we never got to try anything out! raybro ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 11:18:49 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Question? >Nick Rothwell's misgivings aside, She liked the touch of the VFX the most. Oh, I've always liked the touch of the VFX; one of my favourite feeling keyboards, followed by the Wavestation and the MkI DX7 which I've always liked the feel of. Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 11:02:16 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Question? >Please, don't get the impression from my remarks that Nick didn't >like the VFX, it's touch or sound. If I've been reading him correctly >this last year, it's just the opposite. Quite. It was a lovely machine, and superb to work with. But it broke my heart. Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 12:28:54 EST From: ronin Subject: retrofits i recently retrofitted my prophet 5, and i am happy as a clam. well, maybe not just exactly as a clam... they're really more 'serene' aren't they? how 'bout happy as a terrier? anyway, now i want to do my arp odyssey. any experience out there? wine country makes an arp retrofit. has anyone used it? paia makes a cheaper, more general midi/cv kit. has anyone evaluated it? and do i need to build a trigger extractor circuit in order to kick th arp? it seems to be based on a really old mechanism where trigger and gate are actually separate signals. any thoughts? -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 13:03:00 EST From: wbf@CBEMA.ATT.COM Subject: retrofits Hi Eric, Clarity makes the Retro. I'm sending you a separate file of conversations I've had about this topic on MMML just to keep from using emusic's bandwidth. Clarity is in Garrison, New York, USA, costs $595.00 (US), and is descended from the Clarity XLV which was reviewed in the May 1987 Mix and in Keyboard (I don't know which issue). Their telephones are: (914) 424-4071 voice (914) 424-3467 FAX. Bill Fox ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1992 05:25:23 GMT From: John Neilson Subject: Re: Theremin In MCINTYRE@MSUPA.BITNET writes: >An interesting classified ad from the February Keyboard: >THEREMIN. The original space-controlled electronic musical instrument, >redesigned with 1992 technology by Bob Moog. New features include >solid state analog and digital circuitry, MIDI, and choice of cabinets. >Write, call or FAX for photo and specs. Big Briar, Inc. Rt. 3, Box 115A1, >Dept K, Leicester NC 28748. Phone or FAX 704/683-9085. >John McIntyre >Physics - Astronomy Dept >Michigan State University I saw that -- it's not cheap! The new Keyboard mag has what seems to be a pretty extensive interview/ article on Leon Theremin and his wonder-toy . . . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 13:49:33 CST From: Joseph Fosco Subject: Theremin Does anyone know where I could get a schematic for a theremin, preferably with control voltage output. Thanks in advance. Joseph Fosco Internet: b38669@anlvm.anl.ctd.gov Bitnet: b38669@anlvm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 07:24:02 GMT From: hugh lapham Subject: theremin My father-in-law built one - it's still in his attic (or basement?). If you want to get in touch, call me. (416) 508-0775 home, 366-4600 work. ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 Hugh J. Lapham (Sevenoaks Business Systems) 3 CDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD4 3 LSUC!Hugh.Lapham@canrem.uucp 3 @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY --- ~ DeLuxe} 1.21 #5219 ~ -- Canada Remote Systems. Toronto, Ontario NorthAmeriNet Host ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 15:04:00 LCL From: EACZ02PP@GRTHEUN1.BITNET Subject: Wavestation faces Hallo! I'm due to buy a synthesizer (probably a Korg Wavestation) but I'm a bit confused. To cut a long story short I 'd like to know if there exists a ' Wavestation EX' model in an integrated keybord configuration (not the EXK-WS expansion kit for the 'original' Wavestation). Also, is there in the market an expansion device for the original Wavestation which offers the 2 analog inputs, those the Wavestation A/D has ? I would be grateful if somebody could help me because here in Greece the salesmen are very poorly informed. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 11:07:30 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Wavestation faces >Hallo! I'm due to buy a synthesizer (probably a Korg Wavestation) but I'm >a bit confused. To cut a long story short I 'd like to know if there exists >a ' Wavestation EX' model in an integrated keybord configuration (not the >EXK-WS expansion kit for the 'original' Wavestation). Yes, you can buy WS-EX's (keyboards) as complete units. >Also, is there in the market an expansion device for the original Wavestation >which offers the 2 analog inputs, those the Wavestation A/D has ? I don't know of any. There would be additional firmware needed as well (the SysEx spec. is different for the A/D), and I can't really see anybody except Korg doing it. I could be wrong. Nick. ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************