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Title:* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
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2472.0. "Still looking for DX-11 Cartridges" by FIXSR2::WHITTINGTON (Mental Floss today) Mon Oct 15 1990 18:41

    Back in article 2308.*, I asked for any DX-11 cartridges, when I first
    got my Yamaha 11. Little did I know how hard this was going to be. My
    keyboard is not MIDIed to anything but a sound expander box, no PC
    involved. I read Keyboard magazine faithfully and the ads are full of
    cassettes and or disks for the DX-11, but no plug in cartridges which
    the DX-11 will take very readily, I guess, since there is a slot to
    stick a cartridge in and a button to change to cartridge. I have been
    to 8 different music stores specializing in keyboards, and when I ask
    if they have blank and or used cartridges with sounds, you would have
    thought I asked for something that was retired to the Smithsoneon
    Institute. Does anyone know where I can get plug in cartridges with
    sounds built in already? I bought my DX-11 used, and the guy did'nt
    give the dealer the cartridges that came with it. I just can't believe
    I have to MIDI sounds into this keyboard, to get other sounds. I love
    my DX-11 and still will even if I can't add anymore to it. Any help
    will be greatly appreciated......
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2472.1Tape ItAQUA::ROSTShe moves me, manMon Oct 15 1990 19:2210
    
    Well, you don't have to MIDI it up...it *does* have a cassette port and
    tapes of patches are pretty available for 4-op FM machines.  It isn't
    blistering fast, maybe but it does work, and for archival storage, tape
    is the cheapest media on a per patch basis you can get.  
    
    I went through the same thing with a Casio CZ for awhile.  It's OK for
    home use, but if you're gigging (you don't say) I can sympathize.
    
    						Brian
2472.2If I can help, I'll try...SALISH::EVANS_BRThu Oct 18 1990 20:5523
    re: .all
    
    Well, for what its worth, I too have a DX-11, and tried the cartridge
     tape technique, and was, shall we say, less than impressed.
    
    It worked though. I ended up with Opcodes librarian (really happy I did
    that too), but I believe I can download some sounds to the DX, tell it
    to jam it to cassette (having, of course, previously plugged it in! :-)
    and send the cassette to you.
    
      It *is* slow when it loads/saves the bank to/from cassette, and they
    only go into 1 bank worth. That's where, if you want to have more than
    32 sounds at once, the Librarian can be a boon ('course, then you get
    into this MIDI game big-time, and your wallet skinnies up fast... :-)
    
      Another caveat, too. I happened to notice that about 1, or 2 sounds
    out of 32 would load from the cassette, and others would not. Even
    after I saved to cassette a standard bank from the DX, then tried
    restoring it, it seemed not to work well. Perhaps it's my DX....???
    
      If still interested, send e-mail to NWD002::EVANS_BR
    
    ciao! -- Bruce Evans
2472.3Found a solution - Maartists, Inc.CSG001::ROACHGeoff Roach, COHESION Marketing, 291-0462Tue Oct 30 1990 12:0814
In the latest issue of Keyboard, I spotted the following ad. A company called 
Maartists has a cartridge for the DX11/DX7II/TX802/... . It's called the "Music 
Pack MR-5. 256 voice Ram Cartridge. Equivalent to 4 RAM-4 cartridges. Loaded 
with voices. One year warranty. Call." (Quoted from the ad - p 97).

The company name is Maartists, Inc. PO Box 956172, 3881 Murdock Cntr; Dulth, 
GA 30136. Phone 800-832-2737 or 404 623-1559 FAX 404 623-1293. 

You could take stuff off of the cassette tapes and save them to the carts for 
use.

Hope this helps

Geoff
2472.4re:-1ODIXIE::WHITTINGTONMon Nov 12 1990 16:258
    Thanks for the info. These people are probably 20 minutes from my
    office, although they only deal with dealers. They are quite expensive,
    $99.00 for the standard banks, $290 for the MR-5. Now I know why
    everyone has been telling me go cassette.
    
    Thanks for all the input
    EW