Yamaha GS-2 help

[Christian Hofmann]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:08:19 -0400
|||| Philip Pilgrim |||| <thelab at sprint.ca> wrote:

> I just revived a Yamaha GS-2 (Grandfather of DX-7, Father of DX-1,
> Ancestor of sampler and bastard son of Mellotron)  :)
> 
> [...SNIP...]
> 
> btw The GS-2 is an Analogue FM synth that reads magnetic strips
> programmed at a yamaha lab. The strips contain information that
> configures the FM ops inside. 
> 
> The interesting thing is that it is like a very slow sampler. First you
> record a sound on 1/2" 2 track tape at 15ips (guess). Send it to a
> Yamaha lab. They FFT analyse it and generate a card strip with the OP
> configuration thend send it back. 

Hi,
I don't think it's sample based. That sounds more like re-synthesizing a
given waveform. 
And don't count on Yamaha still offering this service...

And are you sure it's analogue? I wouldn't expect much more than lots of
nice & weird FX from analogue FM, but no stable OP freq relations as we
know them from DX7. Especially since Yamaha's analogue 70s oscillators
are not really known to be absolutely trouble free ;-)

cu
Christian