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i recently acquired a yamaha g10 midi guitar. what i didn't know when
i bought the thing is that it uses a proprietary cable. what i'd like
to find is the schematics to see how hard it would be to engineer a
cable that would hook directly into a midi port. failing that, i'll
have to find a cable and the matching g10c box for this thing to be
useful to me.

anyone have any suggestions on where i might find these things? yamaha
doesn't appear to acknowledge ever having created the g10/g10c and i
haven't been able to google anything useful.

anyone with information they would care to share would be greatly
appreciated!

thanks!

i just checked my midi guitar bookmarks and all the g10 links are no
longer active.
try putting the question up on the midiguitar yahoo group list as well
as analogue heaven and looper's delight. lots's of guitar synthesists
there, especially looper's delight.
jeez, it's hard to find much on this thing. i've been looking for awhile
and this is what i've come up with:
http://www.greenbuddha.de/guitars/index_b.php?lang=en
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/g10g10c.html
i have an electronic musician dec.88 issue with a craig anderton review.
he does mention being "paranoid about any cable that cannot be
duplicated from parts available at radio shack" and only describes it as
a multi conductor cord.
how many pins and what kind of configuration on the g10 port? i don't
doubt you could likely make a cord, but i don't think you could plug
directly into a midi module. you'll have to track down a g10c. here's a
couple links to craig anderton's sss forum. they're old links so i don't
know how active the forum is these days.
http://www.musicplayer.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000427#000000
http://www.musicplayer.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000139#000033
and here's a hc review:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Yamaha/G10-01.html
hope this helps a bit,
shayne

> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:49:05 -0600
> From: gamble gold <gamblegold@...>
>Subject: yamaha g10/g10c
>
>i recently acquired a yamaha g10 midi guitar. what i didn't know when
>i bought the thing is that it uses a proprietary cable. what i'd like
>to find is the schematics to see how hard it would be to engineer a
>cable that would hook directly into a midi port. failing that, i'll
>have to find a cable and the matching g10c box for this thing to be
>useful to me.
>
>anyone have any suggestions on where i might find these things? yamaha
>doesn't appear to acknowledge ever having created the g10/g10c and i
>haven't been able to google anything useful.
>
>anyone with information they would care to share would be greatly
>appreciated!
>
>thanks!
>

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thanks -- i'll work thru these tomorrow.

don't know how many pins there are in the cable but it's way more than the number found in a midi cable (3, right?).  the cable for the g10 is round like a midi cable and about the same size -- without going back out into the studio, i'd say there was somewhere between 7 and 10 pins. 

i'll log onto yahoo tomorrow and post messages in the groups that you suggested. 

thanks again and have a happy and prosperous new year!

Shayne Cafferata wrote:

i just checked my midi guitar bookmarks and all the g10 links are no
longer active.
try putting the question up on the midiguitar yahoo group list as well
as analogue heaven and looper's delight. lots's of guitar synthesists
there, especially looper's delight.
jeez, it's hard to find much on this thing. i've been looking for awhile
and this is what i've come up with:
http://www.greenbuddha.de/guitars/index_b.php?lang=en
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/g10g10c.html
i have an electronic musician dec.88 issue with a craig anderton review.
he does mention being "paranoid about any cable that cannot be
duplicated from parts available at radio shack" and only describes it as
a multi conductor cord.
how many pins and what kind of configuration on the g10 port? i don't
doubt you could likely make a cord, but i don't think you could plug
directly into a midi module. you'll have to track down a g10c. here's a
couple links to craig anderton's sss forum. they're old links so i don't
know how active the forum is these days.
http://www.musicplayer.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000427#000000
http://www.musicplayer.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000139#000033
and here's a hc review:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Yamaha/G10-01.html
hope this helps a bit,
shayne

>   Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:49:05 -0600
>   From: gamble gold <gamblegold@...>
>Subject: yamaha g10/g10c
>
>i recently acquired a yamaha g10 midi guitar.   what i didn't know when
>i bought the thing is that it uses a proprietary cable.  what i'd like
>to find is the schematics to see how hard it would be to engineer a
>cable that would hook directly into a midi port.   failing that, i'll
>have to find a cable and the matching g10c box for this thing to be
>useful to me.
>
>anyone have any suggestions on where i might find these things?  yamaha
>doesn't appear to acknowledge ever having created the g10/g10c and i
>haven't been able to google anything useful.
>
>anyone with information they would care to share would be greatly
>appreciated!
>
>thanks!
>




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a midi cable is five pins. the reason i asked about the pins and
configuration is because you may be able to find a substitute. for
example the six pin cable required for rolands pg programmers is the
same cable that was used in the old c-64 systems. i've found several of
these over the years at thrift stores.

shayne

>don't know how many pins there are in the cable but it's way more than
>the number found in a midi cable (3, right?). the cable for the g10 is
>round like a midi cable and about the same size -- without going back
>out into the studio, i'd say there was somewhere between 7 and 10 pins.
>

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we've been having network issues here which has kept me from answering the original question -- though, i'm beginning to lose hope the i can do anything useful with the unit --

anyway, it is a 15-pin cable (round connector, 3 rows of 4 pins each and a 'bottom' row of 3 pins).    hope this helps -- i haven't had time to get to those groups you recommended but it's on my list o' things to do as soon as they stop pestering me around here.....



Shayne Cafferata wrote:

a midi cable is five pins. the reason i asked about the pins and
configuration is because you may be able to find a substitute. for
example the six pin cable required for rolands pg programmers is the
same cable that was used in the old c-64 systems. i've found several of
these over the years at thrift stores.

shayne

>don't know how many pins there are in the cable but it's way more than
>the number found in a midi cable (3, right?).  the cable for the g10 is
>round like a midi cable and about the same size -- without going back
>out into the studio, i'd say there was somewhere between 7 and 10 pins.
>



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the 15-pin cable looks near impossible to find, but hey, look what i
found! hooda thawt?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/g-10/
not terribly active but there are 46 members. that's 46 people who'd
have more of a clue than me. ;^)
good luck, no doubt you will need it...
in any case you could probably sell yours as a spare to someone there.

shayne

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> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:15:14 -0600
> From: gamble gold <gamblegold@...>
>Subject: Re: re: yamaha g10/g10c
>
>we've been having network issues here which has kept me from answering
>the original question -- though, i'm beginning to lose hope the i can do
>anything useful with the unit --
>
>anyway, it is a 15-pin cable (round connector, 3 rows of 4 pins each and
>a 'bottom' row of 3 pins). hope this helps -- i haven't had time to
>get to those groups you recommended but it's on my list o' things to do
>as soon as they stop pestering me around here.....
>
>
>
>

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