Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 05:54 PM, keith1200rs wrote:

> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Matt Pobursky <ccsuser@m...> wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:19:55 -0000, keith1200rs wrote:
> > > What is the part number of the ROM?  It should not be that 
> difficult
> > > to copy a ROM from the DTXpress 3.  Would Yamaha be upset by this?
> >
> > Besides copying copyrighted works (I'll leave the morality and 
> legality
> > of that to the reader), this is highly unlikely to work. It's almost
> > certain that the data table addresses and contents very from module
> > model to model. It's also likely that the ROM contains not only sound
> > data tables but the actual operating code (or parts of it) for the 
> CPU
> > in the module. I can pretty much guarantee the operating code will be
> > different for each different module and revision.
> >
> > Matt Pobursky
>
> It depends if the operating code is in the same ROM as the data.  If
> the processor/DSP is the same between models and all code and data is
> in the ROM then a ROM swap should be straightforward.
>
> Keith.
>
And also most likely a violation of Yamaha's EULA, if the DTXpress 
innards haven't changed (which, according to Yamaha, they have). Keep 
yourself in safe legal waters and just buy the new brain.

Stuart McConaghy
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