Some digital content

[Karl Helmer Torvmark]

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Don Tillman wrote:

> Some early Roland synths (the Compuphonic?) had to deal with the same
> problem -- they had their patch numbers count in one-based octal (1,
> 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, ...).
> Apparently their engineers didn't know how to convert from binary to
> decimal. 

Doesn't all Roland synths use this scheme (but starting with 11 ...)
My D-50 has 64 patches, numbered from 11..18,21.. and so on to 88.
The only hassle with it is when you deal with another device which uses
decimal...

Karl H.