[sdiy] pd650 - do all the Roland applicaitons use an identical chip?

Senso senso at dds.nl
Sun Oct 16 13:51:29 CEST 2005


>  > It *is* possible somehow. Somebody already did, but got carried away.
>>  Instead of a simple replacement, he went overboard and completely
>>  re-wrote the firmware, not only added plenty of control functions, but
>>  also a character display and mo' knobs.
>
>Are you sure that that somebody indeed read out the original program
>instead of just rewriting everything from scratch? After all, the uPD650
>has just 2kB of program memory and what the box does is rather well
>known.
>
>Rainer

I didn't dig into the what and how yet. Contacting the guy and 
squeezing him for details is on my long list of things-to-do. I'll 
push up it's urgency rating a few notches.  ;-)

Senso

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