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Bruce and Ray,
Just to add something here
the connector type  called 'DCB'
Roland have a unit called MD8 and it is a Midi to Dcb
and DCB to Midi converter box.
the features are very limited:
all 16 midi channel
note on note off . ( maby sustain ?)
fully polyphonic .
the only  synths that can use it are:
Jupiter-8 and Juno-60.
I've got a MD-8 box to control my JP-8a ( a is for the DCB connector...)
I don't think that it does anything else but I may be wrong.

Leo


Bruce Wahler wrote:
> 
> Ray,
> 
> >Juno-60 with midi adapter ? it's a CV unit right ? so you mean
> >something like Kenton Midi->CV converter ?  How does it work ?
> >I mean - does it control many different params by MIDI or it
> >only basic note info or what ?
> 
> No, I don't believe that the Juno-60 was a CV synth.  It had a proprietary,
> pre-MIDI digital interface, with a connector that looked a bit (physically)
> like a Centronics printer interface; I think Roland called it 'DBB' or
> something.  Some of the other Roland synths of the same era might have used
> the same method, I'm not sure.  Anyway, after MIDI came out, Roland
> released a DBB-to-MIDI interface, which was a small box with MIDI jacks and
> a DBB cable on the end of it.  I don't know how many parameters were
> available through MIDI control, and I'll bet that a lot of the control was
> SysEx-only, but it was available at one time, so there's probably a few of
> them still around.  I've seen '60s for sale with the interface.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -BW
> 
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