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Well, you don't have to MIDI it up...it *does* have a cassette port and
tapes of patches are pretty available for 4-op FM machines. It isn't
blistering fast, maybe but it does work, and for archival storage, tape
is the cheapest media on a per patch basis you can get.
I went through the same thing with a Casio CZ for awhile. It's OK for
home use, but if you're gigging (you don't say) I can sympathize.
Brian
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| re: .all
Well, for what its worth, I too have a DX-11, and tried the cartridge
tape technique, and was, shall we say, less than impressed.
It worked though. I ended up with Opcodes librarian (really happy I did
that too), but I believe I can download some sounds to the DX, tell it
to jam it to cassette (having, of course, previously plugged it in! :-)
and send the cassette to you.
It *is* slow when it loads/saves the bank to/from cassette, and they
only go into 1 bank worth. That's where, if you want to have more than
32 sounds at once, the Librarian can be a boon ('course, then you get
into this MIDI game big-time, and your wallet skinnies up fast... :-)
Another caveat, too. I happened to notice that about 1, or 2 sounds
out of 32 would load from the cassette, and others would not. Even
after I saved to cassette a standard bank from the DX, then tried
restoring it, it seemed not to work well. Perhaps it's my DX....???
If still interested, send e-mail to NWD002::EVANS_BR
ciao! -- Bruce Evans
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| In the latest issue of Keyboard, I spotted the following ad. A company called
Maartists has a cartridge for the DX11/DX7II/TX802/... . It's called the "Music
Pack MR-5. 256 voice Ram Cartridge. Equivalent to 4 RAM-4 cartridges. Loaded
with voices. One year warranty. Call." (Quoted from the ad - p 97).
The company name is Maartists, Inc. PO Box 956172, 3881 Murdock Cntr; Dulth,
GA 30136. Phone 800-832-2737 or 404 623-1559 FAX 404 623-1293.
You could take stuff off of the cassette tapes and save them to the carts for
use.
Hope this helps
Geoff
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| Thanks for the info. These people are probably 20 minutes from my
office, although they only deal with dealers. They are quite expensive,
$99.00 for the standard banks, $290 for the MR-5. Now I know why
everyone has been telling me go cassette.
Thanks for all the input
EW
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