MOTM

It is not my intention to make a clone GX1.  Building the mechanical
parts of such a machine would take far too long, for me at least, to
justify such a project.  More realistic would be to convert say an EX-2
into a sort of GX-2, and that would still be a huge project.

  I am determining the designs of the original submodules mainly out of 
interest in whether the discrete circuits were the ancestors of the custom 
chip set Yamaha made for the CS line.  Of secondary interest is making 
spare parts for instruments that used them (SY1/2, CSY1/2, GX1).

  It is not hard to adapt the design to be a panel module, so if enough 
folks were interested I was going to make one.  I'd like it to be MOTM 
but Paul has enough to do as it is.  Perhaps if I gave him a turn-key 
design that used, say, the same panel layout as a 490 module, so that the 
only effort he would need to provide is silkscreen of a different model 
number and switch legend, and have a hole drilled for a mode select switch 
(HP/LP).

  That is all up to him, though.  Talking about making modules is easy.  
Producing them is not so easy.

Crow
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, edibennardo wrote:

> Is Crow's and other people's intention making a sort of GX1 clone 
> available in the future? or is it just the simple intention to 
> reproduce some important GX1 parts for existing not working 
> instruments? I read the word "production" somewhere and this sounds 
> interesting though.
> Enrico (Sicily)