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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] it's alive........ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From: "rorymcd@..." <rorymcd@...>
Date: 2007-12-03

Well, I will have to say you have cajones for tearing up a nice new
Proteus 8
as I couldnt bear to do that.

I am working on bringing some Alphasyntauri systems back to life.
I have the keyboards, the Apple II's, and the Mountain Hardware synth
cards,
but only have 1 interface, so I have to clone some of those.
I also have a nice set of software for them.

If anyone is interested, let me know what you think.

Also I have a very rare Eventide Spectrum Analyzer board for the
Apple II,
which I might be cloning as well. It is an outboard filter set with
an interface for the computer.
I have the software for it as well, and I might try making it work
with my SPRITE board,
which is a fairly sophisticated video board for the old Apple II
series, giving it 35 layers of sprites.

Regards
Rory McDonald
OLDSYNTHS Moderator



On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:39 AM, cuari7 wrote:

> A record-breaking 177 posts on this forum last month. Wow.
> Lots of enthusiasm from CS owners.
>
> Here's something else to be discussed, which might sound off-topic,
> but believe me, it's definitely related:
>
> Recently got a Prophet 8. Sounds great, but boy, what a crappy little
> keyboard it has!
> Because I am out of my mind, I removed the keybooard, hoping to
> replace it with a fully-weighed (hammer-action) Fatar I have (5
> octaves salvaged from an old, nonfunctional SL-990). To my dismay,
> the KB panel (where the key contacts are)on the P8 is slightly
> shorter (because the keys are actually smaller!), so I had to use the
> innards of another KB (sorry, M-Audio....) and play it through MIDI.
> Needles to say, the initial result looks like specimens on an autopsy
> table (bloody mess... had to fill out a death certificate for the
> warranty, of course!), but I am hoping that a little bit of carpentry
> skills and good-quality timber will turn it into a worthy adversary
> of its Yamaha cousin. I mean, shit, it's gonna be heavy, and sounds
> awesome. Only difference is that pressure sensitivity is monophonic
> (well, not the only difference, of course! you know the other obvious
> ones....). It's kinda' like a Prophet T8, I guess...
>
> Any other "creative" (read demented) projects from any of you, guys?
>
>
>


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