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In a message dated 00-06-06 14:19:16 EDT, you write:

<< I have the basic information on these modules >>



ivan,
sorry, no luck. i checked my old emu catalog ( 1 jan 1976 ) hoping to find 
info on connections to the boards ( submodules). sadly, not to be. only thing 
it happened to give was the pinouts for the connector.
i know they haven`t been in the modular business in years but i can`t believe 
they don`t have a file cabinet of that literature in a back room somewhere.
have you tried the other synth lists? somebody out there has to have 
something. for that matter, didn`t someone her ( motm list) build an emu from 
submodules? he might have doc`s and step forward with them.
keep us posted on how things turn out!  
best,
dave v.

In a message dated 6/6/2000 11:19:28 AM, ivancu@... writes:

> All of these were formerly from Frank Zappa's studio, so they hold a 
>particular sentimental value for me as well.

How did you come by these (if you don't mind my asking)?

>Anyway, I have the basic information on these modules but no service 
>information or schematics.  Does anyone out there know a source for this
>information?  I've got a call in to Emu but they don't seem to hopeful
>about 
>still having this info.

I seem to remember someone on this list being very into EMu. Hmmm...who could 
that be? I'll try to remember, and get back to you when I can tell you Moe.

JB

Doesn't Dave Kean at the Mellotron Archives have a ton of the old E-Mu
documentation? If you need his address, I have it somewhere.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jwbarlow@... [mailto:jwbarlow@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 8:24 PM
> To: motm@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Emu control voltage keyboards
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> In a message dated 6/6/2000 11:19:28 AM, ivancu@... writes:
>
> > All of these were formerly from Frank Zappa's studio, so they hold a
> >particular sentimental value for me as well.
>
> How did you come by these (if you don't mind my asking)?
>
> >Anyway, I have the basic information on these modules but no service
> >information or schematics.  Does anyone out there know a source for this
> >information?  I've got a call in to Emu but they don't seem to hopeful
> >about
> >still having this info.
>
> I seem to remember someone on this list being very into EMu.
> Hmmm...who could
> that be? I'll try to remember, and get back to you when I can
> tell you Moe.
>
> JB
>
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<< > -----Original Message-----
> From: jwbarlow@... [mailto:jwbarlow@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 8:24 PM
> To: motm@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Emu control voltage keyboards

> In a message dated 6/6/2000 11:19:28 AM, ivancu@... writes:
>
> > All of these were formerly from Frank Zappa's studio, so they hold a
> >particular sentimental value for me as well.
>
> How did you come by these (if you don't mind my asking)? >>

For some reason I didn't get this message.  I noticed that happened a few 
other times; not sure what's up.

Anyway, the story of these goes back a couple of years.  A while ago I 
happened upon the Joe's Garage Website:

http://www.zappa.com/Joes_Garage/Joe's_garage.html

This is a division of Barfko-Swill, the Zappa estate company that distributes 
his music.  Evidently this sight had been up for  a while, but most of the 
good stuff was gone.  What was left was not too interesting, mostly old 
flight cases.  March 1999 I l was going through the list again and found three
 "E-mu

Hi, kids! Just got back this evening from family vacation in Chicago. $2.00
a gallon gas, insane drivers, incredible traffic jams on the tollways, Sue
the dinosaur wasn't nearly as big as I expected, kids fighting...

Here's the deal on the Emu schemos. I used to own both of these keyboards.
The mono one I built from scratch by buying a raw action, building a cab,
and purchasing the tested pcb from Dave Rossum. That keyboard I have let
slip away, and the schemos with it. My 4060 poly keyboard ser. #15, which I
paid $3000 for BRAND NEW, now resides in Dave Kean's Audities museum.

I probably still have the schemos for that one, but they are multipage large
format and difficult to copy. Some of them are actually blueprints. I'll see
if I can dig them up. One thing to consider is that it may be running custom
firmware. There were so few of these built, that quite a few of them were
doing so. Patrick Gleeson's and mine, for sure. Does it have the floppy
drive interface and the 5 1/4" drive for the sequencer?

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jwbarlow@... [mailto:jwbarlow@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:24 PM
> To: motm@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Emu control voltage keyboards
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/6/2000 11:19:28 AM, ivancu@... writes:
>
> > All of these were formerly from Frank Zappa's studio, so they hold a
> >particular sentimental value for me as well.
>
> How did you come by these (if you don't mind my asking)?
>
> >Anyway, I have the basic information on these modules but no service
> >information or schematics.  Does anyone out there know a source for this
> >information?  I've got a call in to Emu but they don't seem to hopeful
> >about
> >still having this info.
>
> I seem to remember someone on this list being very into EMu.
> Hmmm...who could
> that be? I'll try to remember, and get back to you when I can
> tell you Moe.
>
> JB
>
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In a message dated 6/8/00 11:39:10 PM, daveb@... writes:

<< Does it have the floppy
drive interface and the 5 1/4" drive for the sequencer? >>

I haven't gotten the 4060 unpacked and probably won't for a few weeks until 
I'm moved out to Washington.  I used one of these at WWU years ago and don't 
remember any drives; just that the keyboard had the cute touch-tone pad on 
the left-hand side.

Ivan