kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) (06/21/87)
Hi, people! The Faculty of Art and Design at Coventry Polytechnic, England, has just bought itself a DX7-II synthesiser, so that its AudioVisual courses can have some Audio content at last... What we'd like to know is: i) Does anyone out there know of any useful knowledge about this beast? We've just had it dumped on us with the message ``Go on, do something creative with it''; are there any good books on using it? ii) Is there any software that people have that they could either give us (not too expensive, we just blew the budget on the synth :-)) or tell us about? We have the usual sort of machines (Olivetti M24 PC lookalikes, a Mac, and some Atari STs), but I'd much prefer to use the ST. We'd like things like patch editors and archivers, but anything that anyone thinks might be interesting, could they please mail me with brief info? iii) Somebody (I can't remember who, and it was a while ago) mentioned a Lisp system specifically for music research. I think it was called ``MusiLisp'', or something fairly close to that. Does anyone have any info about this? As a radical Lispian, I'd like to do any software development in a Lisp-like system. iv) (Synth folks) Has anyone out there ever heard of a monophonic, analogue synth called the Crumar Spirit? I'm the proud (poor) owner of one of these fine instruments (beasts) and I wonder if I'm the only one (sucker)... OK, you can stop snickering now and go play with your SynClaviers :-( Kay. PS: Please mail me as ...ukc!warwick!covpoly!kay (my work address, rather than ...ukc!warwick!kay, where I'm only a guest). -- "Jung'f n tbbq ohqql? V'yy gryy lbh - n tbbq ohqql tbrf vagb gbja, trgf n pbhcyr bs oybjwbof, gura pbzrf onpx naq tvirf lbh bar."
pjb@homxc.UUCP (#P.BURYK) (07/06/87)
Kay - Things might have changed a little in the past few months but... I know of only -2- packages (patch librarians) that run on the DX-7II: "DX-PRO" - Digital Music Services 23010 Lake Forrest Drive Suite D334 Laguna Hills, Ca. (USA) 92653 (714) 951-1159 -and- another package by either OpCode or Hybrid Arts (sorry, I can't remember which right now) DX-PRO, if purchased "today" should work for either the DX-7 or the DX-7II, allowing both up-loading (to the APPLE II only) and down-loading (to the DX). If you have an older release of DX-PRO you probably won't be able to use it (I couldn't) as one of the first things it does is ask (via MIDI transfer) who it is talking to. Expecting to hear "Oh, I'm a DX-7" it barfs when told "Oh, I'm a DX-7II (FD)". Anyway, DMS will -gladly- send you an update upon receiving your DX-PRO system disk and docs binder (as "proof-of- purchase"). Problem resolved. I've had luck using a few other patch librarians (down-loading to the DX-7II only though)... Isepic "Data-7" seems work ok. Passport DX-7 patch librarian... NG (Re: "who are you?") Dr. T ... ok As far as other info and tutorials go... "The Complete DX-7" by Howard Massey gets my vote too. AND... there is a mag out this month (July issue)... can't remember but it might be the new KMS, KCS or whatever it's called these days... ANYway.. there's an article by Howard Massey in there specifically about the "compatibility" issues between the DX-7 and DX-7II. (There is also a review of the Roland D-50 and a number of other good stuff too!) Ok.... too much typing! Pat =============================================================================== Forward e-mail, US-snail, or real-time blasting to: Patrick J. Buryk ...ihnp4!homxc!pjb AT&T-BTL, Crawfords Corner Rd, Holmdel N.J., 07733 (Rm 3L-414) (201) 949-8129 ===============================================================================