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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 620.1 | I was going to ask about this, anyway... | AKOV68::EATON | Impressionable Youth | Mon Dec 22 1986 16:10 | 14 |
| RE: Note 620.0 by NOVA::RAVAN
> A collolary question: "Anyone else already doing this?"
Sort of.
I just noticed the ad in the back of Keyboard magazine for the Oberheim
DPX-1 - 'Digital Sample Player'. It will read sample disks from the three
"most widely used" samplers - Emu II, Prophet 2000 and Ensoniq's Mirage.
I would guess, as the name implies, it is read-only. Didn't see any
price tag. Anyone know anything about it?
Dan
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| 620.2 | Prove it, Tom\ | 16514::MOELLER | SALSA::MOELLER Tucson AZ USA Sol3 | Mon Dec 22 1986 19:14 | 13 |
| Oberheim was Chapter 11 earlier this year. Not too many stores carry
this gear.. I feel it's quite naive to expect to have my hands on
Emulator disks (5 1/2")... but they've obviously unlocked the operating
system and disk format for various other samplers. Seems like a
solution for a nonexistent problem... unless the price is WAY down
there, in which case I'll take two. More GLARING omissions from
the ad: note range. number of simultaneous voices. ability to
reconfigure a keyboard program. amount of memory. I suspect it is
indeed a play only unit, with NO rewrite capability.. nice, *IF*
all the samples you get are already set up in perfectly usable
playable programs... NFW...
karl
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| 620.3 | | CANYON::MOELLER | What was the question ? | Tue Dec 23 1986 21:12 | 5 |
| This is for Jim Ravan.. Jim, check out that issue of Electronic
Musician, about how to STEREOIZE your Mirage for ~$10 in parts..
also claim a cleaner signal ! I assume yours is out of warranty..
karl
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| 620.4 | FCO my VCO? NFW! | JAWS::COTE | MIDI Christmas to all!! | Wed Dec 24 1986 11:16 | 15 |
| I read it and decided against it.
1. Retrofit disables volume slider, leaving me
dependent on a keyboard mixer.
2. Image is not what I call stereo. To me, a stereo
piano patch would pan dependent on pitch. The
FCO sends groups of notes either hard left or
hard right depending on which oscillator was being
used. A full keyboard arpeggio would bounce back and
forth between left and right. A cute effect ocassionally,
but I think I'd get tired of it quick. Pan pots
would minimize effect though.
Edd
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| 620.6 | The DPX-1, by Oberheim | AKOV68::EATON | Impressionable Youth | Wed Dec 24 1986 12:04 | 13 |
| RE Note 620.2 by 16514::MOELLER
> Seems like a
> solution for a nonexistent problem... unless the price is WAY down
> there, in which case I'll take two.
Curiosity got the better of me, so I called a New York retailer. They
said the DPX-1 was not yet available. I asked them for a ballpark price and
they said it's listing for around $2000.
Dan
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| 620.7 | Good Stuff | NOVA::RAVAN | | Wed Dec 24 1986 12:08 | 20 |
| You betcha! At this point my Mirage is WAY out of warranty.
I agree with -.1 about the retrofit. Disabling the volume slider
is a real drag, and per-oscillator bouncing is not what I would
normally call 'stereo'.
What I *DID* like about the article *A LOT* was the overall description
of how the Mirage works inside and all the things you can do to
it in general. I'm very interested in contacting the op amp folks
the author mentioned and getting the low noise op amp. Old Mirages
like mine are pretty noisy, at least compared to my DX-7. I also
liked the idea of using the 8 LPFs via Midi for filtering external
sounds you route into the board from outside. Nide idea.
As a side note, articles like this are the reason I much prefer
ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN to KEYBOARD, et. al. This one article was worth
the price of my subscription this year.
Thanks for the pointer,
Jim
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| 620.8 | Ping-pong strings | CANYON::MOELLER | What was the question ? | Wed Dec 24 1986 14:59 | 11 |
| re the Mirage mod... I don't disagree with your points of view,
but, hell, the 'per oscillator bouncing' is the way both the Prophet
2000/2002 and the AKAI S900 do their 'stereo' outputs.. not bad
company. Plus, the article was strangely vague as exactly what to
expect regarding the stereo image after you're done. Plus, the
disabling of the volume slider ain't THAT horrible. I never touch
the volume adjustment on my piano rackmount. Plus, there ARE stereo
volume pedals available, Plus... I've run out of plusses. Have a
GOOD holiday and I hope Santa is kind.
karl
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| 620.9 | JX-10 Whole Mode Stereo | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Thu Jan 08 1987 16:15 | 7 |
| Yeah, the JX-10 does it too, in "whole" mode - notes get assigned
successively to the 6 "upper" modules, then to the 6 "lower" modules,
etc.. Dumb - in whole mode they should route the modules' outputs
to *both* sides; I think that's what the Super Jupiter does.
len.
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| 620.10 | | SKYLRK::MESSENGER | Things fall apart -- it's scientific | Fri Mar 27 1987 16:22 | 5 |
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Yes... be aware, however, that if you do the Mirage mod that you
will lose half your simultaneous voicing capability... I believe
you go from 8 voices to 4...
- HBM
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