EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 50, Issue 18 This issue's topics: Help: Stereo Monitors for keyboards (3 messages) Manuals wanted for old Roland Gear need tel# for Kurzweil (2 messages) Phone Phone numbers & stuff (3 messages) re:re: monitors for synths SR16 to Brother Backup Wavestation compatibility Weighted Keys (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: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 14:32:58 CST From: Arne Claassen ISE Subject: Help: Stereo Monitors for keyboards I just got a new keyboard that does not have build in speakers and also sounds horrible when piped through my stereo. So I'm in the market for some stereo monitors, since the headphone thing is getting old quick. My local music store had two set-ups to recommend, one using an Alesis amp and some JBL speakers and one using two Yamaha self powered speakers. Both systems were more along the lines of PA and cost $1000. The only cheaper option in decent self-powered speakers I found were Acoustic Research for $300 the pair. Does anyone have a different option than those set-ups or a mail-order place that carries the ARs for less? Thanks, -ARne ----- claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 23:51:55 PST From: mifriese@CLN.ETC.BC.CA Subject: Help: Stereo Monitors for keyboards Arne; I'm not sure what you consider to be decent, but I'd like to make a suggestion or two. Both Roland and Yamaha make small (home studio) sized powered monitor speakers. Roland's MA-12 and Yamaha's MS101 units are remarkably inexpensive (approx. $100 each), and offer reasonably good sound. They're not going to sound nearly as good as your Alesis/JBL combination - but they won't cost nearly as much either. If you're in the market for low-power; inexpensive amps,then these might be just what you're looking for. My MS101's have more than enough power that I can't afford to turn them past the halfway point for fear of annoying my neighbors. Best of luck. **************************** Michael Friesen I'net:mifriese@cln.etc.bc.ca North Peace Secondary School Fort St. John, B.C. WorkVox: 604 785 4429 HomeVox: 604 787 9856 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 11:20:14 CST From: Arne Claassen ISE Subject: Re: Help: Stereo Monitors for keyboards Thanks for the Monitor info. Being stuck in this town, I had never even heard of either, although the music dealers around here carry both Roland and Yamaha. Personally, i only need the monitors for home use, and there i need low power high quality, since my stereo distorts if i play more than one note at a time. -AFC ---- claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 13:26:33 +0000 From: John A Tuffen Subject: Manuals wanted for old Roland Gear Y'know when you see a piece of musical equipment in a second-hand shop, the price is most definitely right so you go ahead and buy it even though the manual's missing ?? Well, I've recently (within the last 6 months) bought a Roland TR606 and SH-2. One snag: (you've guessed it) *NO MANUALS*. Can anyone let me have a p/copy of either/both??? I would be eternally grateful (if only for the '606 since I can't get to grips with the track-programming) Cheers! john.. (UK is probably best!) E-Mail: jat@ohm.york.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 15:29:23 -0800 From: Mark Hinrichs Subject: Re: need tel# for Kurzweil > I'm looking for a telephone # of: > Kurweil (sp?) Corp. Hi Joe, Try the following: Kurzweil 1432 Main St. Waltham MA 02154 617-890-2929 213-926-3200 FAX 213-404-0748 Mark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 10:19:12 -0600 From: mr334810@RS970.MOR.ITESM.MX Subject: Re: need tel# for Kurzweil Whois: KURZ-AI-DOM Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. (KURZ-AI-DOM) 411 Waverly Oaks Road Waltham, MA 02154 Domain Name: KURZ-AI.COM Administrative Contact: Rothman, Steve (SR144) STEVER@KURZ-AI.COM (617) 893-5151 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Mackenty, Edmund (EM129) MACK@KURZ-AI.COM (617) 893-5151 Record last updated on 30-Jun-92. Domain servers in listed order: NIC.NEAR.NET 192.52.71.4 BU.EDU 128.197.27.7 NOC.CERF.NET 192.153.156.22 Daniel Cortes 'Aztec Eagle' Turbo Computer Science Student Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Morelos. MEXICO. mr334810@rs970.mor.itesm.mx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 11:32:57 EST From: wbf@ALUXPO.ATT.COM Subject: Phone Roland's number is 213-685-5141. Sorry, they don't have an 800 number. Bill Fox 215-439-7217 | "If you're tired of wine, women, and song, AT&T Bell Labs | you could always give up singing!" 555 Union Blvd. Rm. 1B-107 | Allentown, PA 18103 (USA) | - Carter Jastrom wbf@alux1.att.com | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 11:10:00 EST From: Mario Vergona Subject: Phone numbers & stuff hi, Can anyone please post the toll free 800 numbers for Yamaha and Roland? Also, I asked once before, but received no reply: Does anyone have an MV-30/STUDIO M Roland unit? If so, do you know if the thing can receive and send patch dumps to and from an external source? Are there any software programs available for editing the sounds/patches? also Anyone have the GR-1 guitar synth? If so, do you know if the expansion module that adds an additional 200 tones is user installable, or must it be put in at the time of buying the unit? thanks for any help m ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 10:49:38 CST From: crispen Subject: Re: Phone numbers & stuff Mario Vergona asks: > Can anyone please post the toll free 800 numbers for > Yamaha and Roland? Yamaha International 6600 Orangethorpe Avenue Buena Park, California 90620 (714) 522-9011 +-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen | "IT FOUND ME!" | | crispen@foxy.boeing.com | Campus Crusade for Cthulhu | +-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 11:45:39 PST From: tcollins@CISCO.COM Subject: Re: Phone numbers & stuff Yamaha Customer Service: 800.443.2232 Yamaha Electronics (?): 800.443.3548 tracy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 11:54:31 CST From: Arne Claassen ISE Subject: re:re: monitors for synths Hey folks, thanks for all the reply and sorry about posting one of the replys to the list didn't realize the return address when i hit r. Just wanted to say thanks for those i couldn't reply to (host unknown) If anyone is interested, the resounding recommendation for low end monitors was for Yamaha's self powered speakers, i gather the MS101s -AFC ---- claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 08:52:25 EST From: wbf@ALUXPO.ATT.COM Subject: SR16 to Brother Backup Jeff Preston asked about saving drum sequences: > I'm trying to transmit MIDI data from my Alesis SR-16 drum > machine to a newly-acquired Brother PDC-100 sequencer so's I can > make a backup of all the patterns and songs I have stored in the > SR-16. For some reason, all the PDC-100 seems to be receiving is > the SysEx data, and no MIDI note data at all. I poured over the > manuals to both units (priding myself on being a good manual- > reader, heh), and found the problem described in the SR-16's Sorry, Jeff, but I'm unfamiliar with the devices in question. But let me propose that you are doing things correctly. The SR-16's sequence data (patterns and songs) is more efficiently transmitted to the Brother sequencer as sysex data, not as note data. Via sysex, all the data is transferred in a few seconds whereas the note data would have to be played in real time. I'll bet if you dump the sysex data back from the Brother to the SR-16, you'll have loaded the SR-16 with sequence data in the bat of an eye. Please double/triple/etc check your manuals for (1) the Brother's ability to record sysex MIDI data and (2) the SR-16's ability to save and load sequencer data via sysex. If you can save the SR-16's data to both cassette (and there's usually verify function for that) and to the Brother, you'll be able to clear out the SR-16's memory and reload via sysex to verify this, having the cassette as a backup, just in case. As an aside, I grew up in University Heights, just up the hill from you. My friend in South Euclid just bought a computer and I'd like him to get connected. Can you give me information about CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU? Thanks. Bill Fox ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 16:51:31 LCL From: CBDZ111K@GRTHEUN1.BITNET Subject: Wavestation compatibility Does the new Korg's Wavestation-SR save its data on a programm card compatible with the older Wavestation-EX ? (If it does i'll afford at once for a card, in order to load the noumerous sr's rom & ram programms on my machine). Thanks! Kostas Tsachalinas ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 21:48:27 EST From: "Rudi C. W." Subject: Weighted Keys I've often come across the terms weighted keys, weighted synth-action keys, and synth-action keys in the spec sheets of various keyboards. Are these terms referring to the same thing? How do they differ? As I currently understand, weighted keys are like those of a piano and have actual weight. Synth-action uses springs to simulate weight. Is this correct? Is there anything "worse" than synth-action type keys? I'm looking for a controller and am considering the Roland JX-10. Anyone know which category its keys fall under? Any comments about the feel of this keyboard would also be appreciated. By the way, are there makes of keyboards out there that are commonly regarded to have good piano-like feel? Email responses would be good. Thanks a priori. -rudi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 16:46:16 UTC+0100 From: gui Subject: RE: Weighted Keys RUDI SAID: >I'm looking for a controller and am considering the Roland JX-10. >Anyone know which category its keys fall under? Any comments about the >feel of this keyboard would also be appreciated. Hey Rudi, a friend of mine owns a JX8-P and I play it very often. It's lovely, just as the JX10 is (I played one time ago) but in my opinion if you are looking for weighted keys this is not your better choice... It has great sound (for me) but not a good keyboard (at least for a piano player). Hope this helps but, remember: Buy what you like once you have realized it's a good thing for you :) Luis A. Fuente gui@cpd.uva.es University of Valladolid Spain ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************