Re: And now I have one

"Martin Tarenskeen [email protected] [YamahaDX]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.equipment.yamaha-dx
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, danforcz [email protected] [YamahaDX] wrote:

> congratulations! That’s great you could find it. Will you write how
> much have you paid?

You can imagine I wasn't the only person interested in buying this unit so 
I had to pay a little more than I had in mind. 710 euro.

> Some algorithms combine 4+4 operators, there are also 5+3, and some
> are real 8 OP combinations!  ALG 15 with 8 carriers is good for organ
> sounds, two more carriers than DX7 has :-) 

Yes it has a lot of FM power!

> There was some DOS editor for it, and maybe some other.

I found a relatively new Windows based editor. My plan is to try it and at 
the same time try to capture and analyse the SysEx messages it is 
sending. 
That should make reverse-engineering a little bit more easy. I hope. I 
want to know how this beast works internally.

> MIDI SysEx implementation in Owner’s manual is probably not complete

It sure isn't.

> Somebody on Canada Ebay sells Service manual for it and more machines
> connected with it:
> 
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Electone-Expander-Module-MDX-1-FVX-1-AVX-1-M
> BS-10-RAX-1-Service-Manual/232951261863?hash=item363cfa2aa7:g:yXkAAO
> SwHuha8wTW:rk:2:pf:0

A service manual is good to have. thanks for the link, I will go after it.
Maybe I need to change a battery and I should check for bad capacitors. 
But from the outside it seems to be in good condition and it sounds and 
functions perfectly after my first tests.

> It would be great if you buy it and scan… I’m really interested to see
> how it is done.
> 
> My search will continue!

Same here

> And, if you want to sell it one day, let me know please. 

Not very likely, and not very soon, but who knows ... :-)

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MT
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