[sdiy] Monotron Schematic

[Paul Burns]

Hi Senso , 

Re : Yamaha manuals from that time are famous. I don't 
know what the situation is at this moment, but 
then it seemed they were translated by someone 
who normally does cook books only .

Yeah, that is indeed why I got the gig ...some of those manuals were dire ,
case in point the SY99 manual it said it would do things it could not (part
of the MIDI master keyboard section) ... I was particularly frustrated with
that one as they would not change it ...

I once went to a R+D department at Sussex Uni in England, and there were
certain parts you could not get in to unless you held a Japanese passport...


cheers

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Senso
Sent: 06 November 2010 23:41
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Monotron Schematic

>My comment was regarding the big (Japanese) manufacturers post 1984 ...
>
>Imho , when I first got into translating technical Japanese to English
>manuals in about 1987,  at that time the digital revolution had truly
>manifested itself and analogue was dead / passé ( in the opinion of the
>major manufacturers, Yamaha, Roland, Korg, et al). Later on by 1991 the
>horror story that was the Yamaha SY99 had materialized and they could not
>even put a manual together to define how to use RCM hybrid synthesis let
>alone include a schematic
 they (the manufacturers) just did not seem to
see
>the need 
Joe Public would not get it ...

Yamaha manuals from that time are famous. I don't 
know what the situation is at this moment, but 
then it seemed they were translated by someone 
who normally does cook books only . I'll never 
forget how modulation of the operators in the 
DX-7 was described... it said you had to tickle 
them. :-)

Still most of the major manufacturers don't like 
their "industrial secrets" revealed, even for 
equipment that is considered obsolete.  Of course 
there is a very good reason for it. They call it 
"company policy".

Senso

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