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From: dko4342@vip.cybercity.dk
Date: 2003-08-27

> I hope that I don't upset anyone here with this next comment, but...
>
> Does anyone really ~want~ to deal with that cassette interface?
> (Gak!)
>
> I've often thought that that entire section could be replaced with
something
> much more interesting, (or even a small floppy disk drive or the little
> flash memory cards thingies that go into digital cameras in order
> to save patches).
>
>
> (Personally, I stopped dealing with cassette data interfaces back
> in 1978 with my old Apple ][+ and I'm not going back! LOL!)

Well, since all modern computers have good quality audio I/O, we are
back to the point where the cassette interface is useful again. True,
it would be much nicer to have a direct MIDI sysex implementation of
the entire set of parameters, but hooking up the cassette interfce to a
computer can be done with no modifications at all to the P6, so I find
the beforementioned P6 librarian program a very attractive tool indeed,
and I will be looking forward to evaluate (and probably pay for) a copy.

/Frank