csz@well.UUCP (carter scholz) (03/23/86)
When I bought my DX7 a year ago, I was very disappointed with the user's
manual. I learned that Yamaha makes available a "DX7 Technical Analysis"
booklet, and a "DX7/9 Service Manual", and I bought them, but they were
rather disappointing, too. I've ended up investing a few hundred hours
in exploring the rudiments of the DX7 ... such things as hooking an
oscilloscope to the output and graphing the responses of various key
velocity settings, or working out what kind of "modulation index" you get
when an op is set to "output level 87", or how many milliseconds a decay
rate of 92 equals.
By now I have a fat folder full of data. I have been thinking about
writing it up and self-publishing it. I'd like to get some sense of
how many people could use / would buy such a document. I am not planning
to get rich here -- information should be free, but we do not yet live in
that best of worlds -- but I figure it will take me another hundred-plus
hours to put the data into user-friendly form. Is there enough interest
to warrant my effort?
This would include a fairly extensive MIDI doc, and notes on TEXTURE and
PERSONAL COMPOSER file structure ... who's interested? Let's not clutter
up the net -- E-mail or US mail to me.
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