Xpantastic!

Hi Tobbe,

The Europa upgrade is for your Roland Jupiter 6: http://www.synthcom.com/Europa/europaFaq.html

As for your strange (but cool) tuning sounds, I'd call that a feature rather than a bug. ;) I don't know why it started doing that, but it does raise the issue of OS versions matching/requiring specific circuit board revisions. Perhaps you have a particularly early/late board version? Other than that, some slight corruption of the EPROM containing the firmware is the only other possibility I can think of offhand.

Cheers,

John :^P  

On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 at 15:47, Tobbe Bergman wrote:

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> Sorry for intruding but I was wondering what the Europa Upgrade was ?
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> Ever since I upgrade to the latest software ( Which I Found here http://www.synthi.se/oberheim ) I have been having strange sounds when I am tuning the VCF's  
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> http://youtu.be/Q1U4FTyNTlI
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> Cheers / Tobbe
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> 2012/4/3 John Pallister <john@... (mailto:john@synchromesh.com)>
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> > Hi Tony,
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> > Nobody's saying it would be easy to develop a new version of the Xpander OS, but it would certainly be much easier if there was a version of the source code to start with.
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> > Is your friend looking to form a small team to develop a new Xpander OS as a commercial product, like the Europa upgrade (which had a hardware and software component, and therefore would be a much bigger deal than a straight OS update)? If not, could he be persuaded to donate the source code to the Xpander user community (i.e. this mailing list)?
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> > Your allusions to the Xpander source code are very tantalising. There are people who would be interested in working with the source code if it became available; what exactly are your friend's criteria for releasing it?
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> > Cheers,
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> > John :^P  
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> > On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 at 15:07, Tony Cappellini wrote:
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> > > > > You've mentioned your friend before, although I can't find the reference. By >>"committed to the cause", do you mean "prepared to spend money"?  
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> > > A project like this is easily going to take 1 person more than a year, even if  
> > > they know 6809 assembly very well.
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> > > For those who know the Jupiter-6, the Europa upgrade took something like 3-5 years before it was finished. Two people worked on the project initially, but I believe it was eventually finished by 1 guy.  
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> > > Finding the right people to see this project to its completion isn't going to be easy.  
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