totally OT but: > >> C64, Atari and especially from my instruments and effects (as long as >> the batteries are still fine) to Linux. take care about that one! Its an underestimated danger to your hardware equipment. Making electronic music since the 80s I have quite some instruments and recently started to exchange all batterys before they leak and destroy the circuits. They don't need to be empty powerwise to start to leak, actually only my Boss SE50 lost his patches during all these years. Exchanging batteries is not that difficult but might require some soldering because the manufactures tend to be cheap and just solder them in instead of having a proper holder. It amazed me that I even still can get a battery for the ages old Sequential Circuits Sixtrak at electronics store, in this case Conrad.
A lot of Roland CR-78 Rhythmboxes are out there which can only produce Hihat sounds because nobody cared or expect a battery to backup the custom patterns. Cheers, Malte -- ---- media art + development http://www.block4.com new release: free open source softwaresynth Minicomputer for Linux http://minicomputer.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
