Atari-Midi Archives

I have a Korg EX8000(no keyboard) rackmount DW8000
that I picked up in a thrift store and have been
trying to ressurect for some time. I'm basicly
synth-illiterate but used Ataris for years. I deduced
the battery was dead and did the battery replacement
mod from Bryan Resslers site;
http://www.pallium.com/bryan/dw8000.php

 Downloaded the DW8000 manual and A.Ruggeri's DW
editor/librarian, a PC program later. 
http://www.anthonyruggeri.com/web2001/dw8000.asp

 On the frontpiece of the EX just below the tuning
knob there is a button labelled A4. It emits sounds
thru my earphones, mostly decaying whistles when I
play with the program and parameter knobs..

 I have a Mega-4 ST and also a Tweety board. I had no
luck with numerous old ST programs getting patch-banks
into my EX, altho I was able to lite up the Midi
connection indicator with one of them. Since the Korgs
memory was now blank I couldn't do much.

 I finally got a PC game-port midi adaptor (the people
at the local music-store here in the boonies looked
blank when I asked if they had one) and am trying to
use my W98-SE PC to use the DW-8000 editor to download
the memory banks. I also have Midi-Ox installed.
 Somehow Midi-Ox did transfer a stub to the editor
program but won't connect to the EX. I have the midi
cables connected to the in out ports but the midi
panel indicator doesn't light up and there is no
response. Anyone have any ideas ? Sorry if it's PC
specific but I do want to use my Atari programs once I
get this beast functioning. Of course it's complicated
by not having a musical keyboard.

Lawrence
         
   Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:15:12 -0000
   From: "gregor_malecha" <gregor.malecha@...>
Subject: Re: tx81z help wanted

Hi Peter, 

for sure, because you're putting your questions in the
Atari group, you're getting many Atari related
answers. (And that's not so bad.)

But if for the time being your main interest is simply
to dump & exchange TX81Z data, then some Windows
applications can do this simple task without requiring
you to going into the Atari world. 

For the PC there is a small application called MIDI-OX
with which you can receive, store, send MIDI data &
SysEx dumps. That's a great little tool for this and
many other tasks. 
http://www.midiox.com/

Later, once your MIDI setup gets more complex you
might need "MIDI Yoke" to do routings for the MIDI
data. (Also if you're going to use the Atari emulator
STEEM.) You'll find that on the same website. 

But first you'll need to get your hardware connection
together. 

Little story by the way:
When I did the first MIDI setup for my PC it was a lot
of work and took me a long time. Also because I tried
to just solder my MIDI interface cable for the game
port of my soundcard. I got all the pinout infos from
the www and soldered it perfectly together and 
nothing worked. Until I gave up and finally bought the
cable. Then I found out what was nowhere mentioned: in
this adapter cable there were optocouplers built in.
Without these - no way. That's the tough way of
learning things. 

:^) Greg




Lawrence Walker

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