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Interesting. I had a feeling the "DX" in the title referred to the DX series, but wasn't entirely sure how. Most of them can make such strange/terrible noises it wouldn't have been too far-fetched to believe the track was sounds from a DX9 itself. I have a few Yamaha FM rackmounts...some 4 op, some 6 op...might have to try this out; I have a MIDI/Sysex controller hooked up to mine because they're already a bitch to edit, so some pre-made AFX patches would be sweet, even just to reverse engineer them. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:09:16 -0500 Subject: afx - dx9 20 afx voices From: clinta@gmail.com To: idm@hyperreal.org heh someone decoded what this 'random noise' sounding track is: So, for anyone wondering why AFX uploaded a noise this painful to Soundcloud... the answer may intrigue you.This track was not meant for human consumption. "Maybe you would like it if you had robot ears." -- JP - Grandma's BoyJP was correct in his assertion. At least, in this case. The track "dx9-20-afx-voices" is actually a memory dump of Presets from the Yamaha DX-9 Synthesizer.Old Synthesizers [and some modern ones... like the Korg Monotribe] Use Analogue recordings to store Firmware information, Setup information, and even presets.Old Synths usually use a Radio Shack TRS-80 Style Computer Controlled Cassette Player.In the case of the Monotribe... you downloaded a .wav file from Korg, you hook an audio cable from your laptop/phone playing the .wav file... to the Sync port on your synth... you put it into mode where it will accept a data transfer... and then you hit play... and the synth interprets the audio it is hearing like a file is being sent to it over a dial-up modem [it even sounds like a dial-up modem.. because essentially... it is].Then the synth reboots... and now there's new information in it... In the case of DX-9 Voices... if you have a Yamaha DX-9... this would allow you to get your hands on the Presets that Richard D. James most likely used on some of his tracks that make use of the Yamaha DX-9.So... if you know anyone with a Yamaha DX-9.... or even a TX-9... and you want some Instruments Presets from the Ginger Wizard himself... this is one way to get them. https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/dx9-20-afx-voices Clint Anderson Systems Engineer

79$ ugh http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yamaha-DX21-DX27-DX100-DX11-TX81Z-Data-cassette-tape-interface-cable-/131467604554?hash=item1e9c14724a On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:40 PM, c j <coda27@hotmail.com> wrote:

quoted 58 lines Interesting. I had a feeling the "DX" in the title referred to the DX

> Interesting. I had a feeling the "DX" in the title referred to the DX > series, but wasn't entirely sure how. Most of them can make such > strange/terrible noises it wouldn't have been too far-fetched to believe > the track was sounds from a DX9 itself. I have a few Yamaha FM > rackmounts...some 4 op, some 6 op...might have to try this out; I have a > MIDI/Sysex controller hooked up to mine because they're already a bitch to > edit, so some pre-made AFX patches would be sweet, even just to reverse > engineer them. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:09:16 -0500 > Subject: afx - dx9 20 afx voices > From: clinta@gmail.com > To: idm@hyperreal.org > > > heh someone decoded what this 'random noise' sounding track is: > > So, for anyone wondering why AFX uploaded a noise this painful to > Soundcloud... the answer may intrigue you. > > This track was not meant for human consumption. "Maybe you would like it > if you had robot ears." -- JP - Grandma's Boy > > JP was correct in his assertion. At least, in this case. The track > "dx9-20-afx-voices" is actually a memory dump of Presets from the Yamaha > DX-9 Synthesizer. > > Old Synthesizers [and some modern ones... like the Korg Monotribe] Use > Analogue recordings to store Firmware information, Setup information, and > even presets. > > Old Synths usually use a Radio Shack TRS-80 Style Computer Controlled > Cassette Player. > > In the case of the Monotribe... you downloaded a .wav file from Korg, you > hook an audio cable from your laptop/phone playing the .wav file... to the > Sync port on your synth... you put it into mode where it will accept a data > transfer... and then you hit play... and the synth interprets the audio it > is hearing like a file is being sent to it over a dial-up modem [it even > sounds like a dial-up modem.. because essentially... it is]. > > Then the synth reboots... and now there's new information in it... In the > case of DX-9 Voices... if you have a Yamaha DX-9... this would allow you to > get your hands on the Presets that Richard D. James most likely used on > some of his tracks that make use of the Yamaha DX-9. > > So... if you know anyone with a Yamaha DX-9.... or even a TX-9... and you > want some Instruments Presets from the Ginger Wizard himself... this is one > way to get them. > > > https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/dx9-20-afx-voices > > > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer >