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<div>I was also going to say Junglieb. He has most of his stuff online. The Prophet 5 technical manual would be great for this.</div>
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<div>Also the Rhodes Chroma and Emu Emulator manuals should be noted for their detail. I'm sure there are other great ones too.</div>
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<div>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Understanding 80s Synth Architectures</div>
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I second Hal Chamberlin's book as a great resource, but I'd also say that I learned most from reading old service manuals. The Sequential ones by Stanley Junglieb are particularly good and give an overview of how the system works before diving into the details.
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<div class="">You might like to try to get a hold of a copy of "Musical Applications of Microprocessors" by Hal Chamberlin.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 11:25, ackolonges fds via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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As the local SDIYer I sometimes get asked to try and fix synths from the 80s like various Rolands, Korgs, Oberheims etc. and I generally just try to pinpoint the rough area of the issue and replace logic chips until the issue is resolved...</div>
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Most of these synths have a CPU connected to everything via a parallel address bus and a parallel data bus, with all sorts of glue logic chips doing various things. They also usually just have 1 DAC, time-domain multiplexed to all of the different parameters
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Obviously this is very different to the modern ways that microcontrollers and DACs are used in synths, and since I wasn't around in the 80s, these older architectures are very foreign to me. To aid in my troubleshooting efforts, I would love to better understand
the details of how these architectures work, so I was wondering if anyone on here would be able to point me to any resources that could explain these types of systems to me, be they websites, articles, or books?</div>
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