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OT: Yamaha AfterTouch magazine archive completed!

Daniel Forró
 

I'm very happy to announce here that my project of digitizing of old Yamaha USA AfterTouch magazine was successfully finished and anybody who is interested in can download all 44 issues in PDF format from here:


Big thanks to all who were willing to participate for the good of our community:

- Raul Gelinas who did the crucial work of improving my scans, converting them to OCR PDF format and arranging everything necessary with Yamaha Forum UK

- Daniel Rheault (who sent also X-press magazines), Mike Schacht (who sent also Supplemental booklets) and Edgar Rodriguez - they all kindly donated their issues so I could almost complete the set and do scanning (in my collection is still one issue missing but fortunately Rawl has it so we could do conversion and PDF set is complete - it's October 1988 issue. If somebody has it and wants to donate or sell, or exchange for the other issue missing in his/her collection please let me know.)

- Clyde from Yamaha Forum UK who loaned his collection (in better shape than some of my issues so we could get the best results)?

- Saul from Yamaha Forum UK who arranged official agreement with Yamaha to publish this material, and allowed to upload it to Yamaha Forum UK download page

Thanks also to Doug who was willing to help us with scanning but later couldn't do it due busy schedule.

Enjoy this material!?

The next project is to publish Yamaha Canada X-press magazine (8 issues) and Yamaha DX Supplemental Booklets. I still haven't these:

Quick Reference Guide
Modifying Preset Voices
Understanding Fractional Scalings
Programming Fractional Scalings
Memory Management
Advanced Midi Applications

If somebody has them and will donate them, sell or just lend for scanning, let me please know.

Daniel Forro

P.S.: As for DX7 patch sheets in AfterTouch magazines I think I have found in my huge collection of DX sounds some SysEx (and some strange other format) files which include some if not all of them, probably somebody programmed them years ago. If there's an interest I can send these files as they are, maybe Martin can convert those strange formats to SysEx or MID. I didn't check them so I don't know if they are OK, and if they correspond fully to the patch sheets but it seems from the voice names it could be so.




On 3 Jun, 2014, at 1:46 AM, rawl at??[YamahaDX] wrote:

I have just uploaded the final issue of AfterTouch?that needed to be scanned and converted to PDF to the Yamaha UK Forum.? These last 11 issues were provided courtesy of "Clyde" who is well known on the UK forum.? Clyde kindly loaned me his collection allowing me to complete the scanning and PDF conversion for these missing last 11 issues.

There were 44 issues in total and all 44 are now available for download from the "AfterTouch Magazine" section of the "Yamaha Downloads" area here:

I will be working to attempt to record to FLAC the 4 Evatone (thin vinyl) audio discs that were included in four of the issues and donated to the effort also by Clyde!? This will be "fun" as these were never very durable and are now quite old.? If successful, I will be uploading the resultant audio and audio based patch files to the Yamaha UK Forum site as well.

?My collaborator and the originator of this AfterTouch archive project Daniel Forró, has found 8 issues of a Yamaha Canada publication "X-Press" that we are converting to PDF and Daniel has many but not all of the DX7II "supplementals" published by Yamaha that we intend to convert to PDF as well.? We need the rest to make a complete archive of those so please look at Daniel's previous posts regarding the "supplementals" to see which ones we need.? I can provide an FTP area if you can scan images to TIFF for me to convert to PDF.?

So, enjoy this new (and yet rather antique) complete Archive of AfterTouch Magazine and I hope you find many voice patches and other interesting and helpful information buried in the archive of this unique publication originally available only to US purchasers of Yamaha equipment.?

Thanks to Daniel Forró and Clyde A. (of Richmond, VA) for their assistance in making the completion of this project possible.?

Rawl

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