Re: New member, old member; Upgraded my units; Questions
Thanks. Now if someone can get the initial review from Keyboard about the 1000 series that would cover all the ones I'm aware of. Are these up on the website?
Nicole
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Nicole Massey
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Re: New member, old member; Upgraded my units; Questions
For what its worth, Logic has had ROM program lists for all the 1000 series available to load into the program for some years, so you don't need to be leafing through sheafs of notepaper to see what
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David
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Re: New member, old member; Upgraded my units; Questions
At one point David Brown said that he did manage to get in touch with them, and the permission was that we could upgrade our machines, but the upgrades couldn't be used commercially. Or to make that
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Nicole Massey
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Thanks for the PDF.
The "other" David talked about this way back on the old list, about how the GX seems to be capable of a huge number of programs. He didn't explore how many, but he had an
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Nicole Massey
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Re: New member, old member; Upgraded my units; Questions
Nice to see the bounce in interest for the K1000.
I also remember some agreement with Kurzweil giving permission to copy chips Etc. but the details are long forgotten.
FYI, the source code for
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Dennis Spanogle (Mr. Kurlewin K1000.net)
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Re: New member, old member; Upgraded my units; Questions
Going back to Nicole's original remarks regarding upgrades (in 2023), I can offer the following info which may help:
David Brown contacted Kurzweil to let them know that he was going to copy the chip
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David
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For anyone interested, here are my two revfiews of the 1000 series, from Home & Studio Recording magazine in 1989, and the 1200 series in Sound on Sound magazine in 1991.
Still wish I'd had the chance
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David
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Hi Nicole,
I've managed to convert the lot into jpegs and then combined them into a single pdf. Here it is, and I hope it's useful for you.
Regarding acquisitions, I have been using the 1000 series
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David
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Re: New member, old member; Upgraded my units; Questions
Google search on "ObjectEditorX" should get you there, and it is free.
David
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David Greenwood
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These seem to be page shots in graphics format. Can anyone here convert these into a single PDF, preferably with OCR?
David, I "see" you're nipping at my heels in 1000 series acquisitions. This makes
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Nicole Massey
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If you can find them, there's the Keyboard Magazine review of the machines, and the programming lesson for it in a much later episode'.
Hi folks, here are scans of the Keyboard mag programming
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David
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Hi, David, where I can get it or buy? I¡¯m still on Mojave¡
Daniel Forro
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Daniel Forr¨®
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The first I heard about these kinds of things was for the Yamaha TX16W, their first sampler. The OS, to used a dialect word, sucks, so some folks wrote an OS called Typhoon and made the thing make
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Nicole Massey
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Hi Nicole,
14 stages? LOL - so far in my reading of the manuals (or _somewhere_), I only saw "ASR" mentioned as to envelopes, so I thought that attack/sustain/release was it! I still have to dig into
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charles.d.lutz@...
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Re: New member, old member; Upgraded my units; Questions
There is also a full blown editor/libarian for mac os (I wrote it!). Only issue is it was compiled for Mac OS Mojave, but since then Apple have updated the mac midi drivers. Since I don't have a newer
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David Greenwood
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Charles et al,
There's a lot to comment on here.
There were rumors that Sweetwater sound did replacement ROM chips for these machines, but they're sasquatch -- often talked about, but as far as I
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Nicole Massey
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Charles and everyone else,
This is one of those areas where it's more a matter of dealing with the instrument manufacturer getting upset. Of course they can sue someone, but it'll be a troubled one.
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Nicole Massey
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hi all,
Reviving an old thread here.
In an age where a lot of old gear seems to be enjoying new leases on life through various after-market 3rd party upgrades, ranging from reverse-engineered,
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charles.d.lutz@...
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Thanks for the tips!
Today I worked through the "Musician's Guide", which was the introductory volume apparently in the original documentation (I had also grabbed the " Programing Reference 1000
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charles.d.lutz@...
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Okay, first thing -- the earlier Kurzweil units use the same bank system as Oberheim and Korg gear from the era -- 100 programs per bank, numbered 00-99, then bank changes are two program changes, the
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Nicole Massey
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