| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1602.1 | Oh no, another Ensoniq plug... | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Yo! | Fri Aug 05 1988 20:39 | 16 |
| It's a great idea Steve. Tape dumps are a royal pain for this reason
as well as others.
Fortunately, those days are gone for me. The SQ-80 floppy can be used to
save MIDI dumps of non-Ensoniq devices. Since everything in my system
that does MIDI SysEx dumps already has a MIDI path to and from the
SQ-80 (it being the MIDI hub of my system), I don't have to rewire a
thing to do MIDI SAVEs and LOADs to floppy.
At the recent Roland clinic, I told the Roland rep that EVERYTHING
they come out with that has a builtin floppy drive should be able
to save SysEx dumps from OTHER devices.
To me, it's yet another endearing feature provided by Ensoniq.
Now if I could only talk them into providing MIDI merge...
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| 1602.2 | An SQ-80 would be a dream! | MIZZOU::SHERMAN | socialism doesn't work ... | Mon Aug 08 1988 12:47 | 16 |
| Yeah, db. If I had the bucks I'd go for something that had a nice drive.
An SQ-80 would be soooooooo nice! But, so far I've spent about
$3200 for my setup, the most expensive single piece being the S-10
($795) and the next most expensive being the QX5 ($445). I've not
yet had the testosterone to join the 'big' league... But, I am happy
with what I have ( ... or at least able to convince myself that I am ;-) ).
If I *do* eventually land on something that can accept MIDI dumps,
I'll dump tape dumps. But, I don't think I'll be able to justify
that kind of cost in the near future.
The reason, of course, for going to the tape dump network is to
maximize bang for the buck while incorporating something that is easy
and straightforward to do.
Steve
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| 1602.3 | addendum | MIZZOU::SHERMAN | socialism doesn't work ... | Sun Aug 14 1988 03:46 | 7 |
| I've had to make a change to the setup to improve reliability.
Seems the QX5 sends out lines levels on its tape out, but the TX81Z
sends out microphone levels. So, I've had to improvise. But, rather
than route extra lines to the mic inputs on the tape, I took the
weenie way out and just use another tape deck dedicated to the TZ.
Steve
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