On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, patrioticduo wrote:
> But I have to agree with you. Your mod is about the cheapest FM you can
> get without actually buying a product designed with FM in it.
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it's probably possible to find a DX-100 (or a TX-7, yech!!) for less than
a stock poly/ex-800... but you just can't get anything close to the
knob-tweaking analog mayhem that you'd get with the FM-800 and moog slayer
mods.
i'm a big fan of the FS1R (arguably the best FM synth ever in mass
production), but if not for the mods to my EX-800, i wouldn't have an
EX-800. what it's good at (and good for), it's better at (and better for)
than the FS1R.
> Now if I could just get back to the MKIII project, we might be able to
> apply separate EG's to your mod's.
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or, to minimize the amount of hardware modification, you could emulate the
FM-800 and moog slayer mods in software ;)
> And, thinking about the TG's in the Poly. I think we could replace them
> completely with digital samples coming out of ROM's just like the DW
> 8000 etc. So we can stop worrying about the MSM5232 and just build our
> own. And I've tried and tried to get my hands on one hundred or so of
> the filter chips and have failed. So I am now considering designing a
> new filter board too.
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at some point, you'll just have to design, build and distribute your own
synth.
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