From mikekent Sent Mon, Dec 2nd 1996, 23:08
>> In many ways the first "Virtual Analog" (particularly if you never use the >> sample playback waveforms, just the simple saw/pulse/etc.). It kept the >> familiar subtractive synthesis voice architecture, building on concepts in >> Jupiter-8 and MKS-80. Did anyone else ever use a D-50 with 4 programmers >> hooked up simultaneously (one per partial)? > >Wow, that's a great idea ! (it wasn't a joke, was it ?) >Guess I keep my D-550 now ... >Four programmers. What an idea. How do you connect them ? It's been a number of years, I hope I remmeber this correctly. The PG-1000 connects to the D-50/D-550 by the MIDI input. It also has a MIDI in that merges incoming data with programmer data. You connect them serial: The first is merged with the second, these two get merged with the third, 1+2+3 are sent into the 4th which merges all into the input of the D-50/D-550. We sometimes used to do this when programming factory sounds. It's really cool to have a synth with hundreds of sliders. If I remember correctly, the ultimate setup would use 6 programmers: 2 to control parameters of the 2 tones, and 4 to control parameters of the 4 partials. (I never used more than 4, tone parameters don't get edited as much). Mike. ---------------------------- .......................................... |Roland oooooooo oooooooo | .............. xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx .. | ______________________ | .. http://www.pacificrim.net/~mikekent/ .. | x |UU|UUU|UU|UUU|UU|UUU| | ...... Wanted: System-700, System-100m .. |___||||||||||||||||||||||_| ..........................................