Malte Steiner wrote: > 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 >
Thank you Emiliano :) thank you Will :) I'll take a look at amidi and Sysexxer, Qt 4 isn't a problem, I'm using 64 Studio upgraded to Lenny and Suse 11.0 with KDE 4.0.4. Hi Malta :) thank you, thank you, thank you for your warning :)! I'm fine with soldering but I didn't thought about that those kinds of batteries and accumulators also can leak. The first thing I've done is to take a look at the remote control of my Sony DAT recorder, I can't use the DAT recorder since years because it's defect, but maybe the day will come when I can repair it. The "normal" batteries in the DAT recorder's remote control are okay, but the batteries in some of my synth might be much older. I should take a look at all units this year. I opened a 2 bank RAM cartridge for the DX7. The case isn't broken, only 4 pins inside are broken. It's too funny, the RAM is a HM6264LP-15. Once the cartridge is opened, I'm thinking about to change the RAM by an EPROM bank or another RAM ;). By the way, the battery a maxell CR2032 older than 16 years was lately still okay. Some minutes ago I soldered it out and the multimeter says 3.06V when not under load. Under load of a LED it's still 2.24V. Maybe it's not the battery, the DX7 message says something about a wrong formated cartridge and sound names were confused ASCII signs. Malte if you buy more than just a battery, you should compare prices between www.conrad.de and www.reichelt.de. I prefer to order by Reichelt. I haven't the money for Sequential. One of my favourites is the revision of the Prophet 5 a friend has got, he got spare parts from wine country. The problem with old synth seems to be to get the right revision. Yesterday I read that hexter should sound like a real DX7, compared to my DX7 hexter sounds like a Bontempi and I heard of Minimoogs that shouldn't be usable. There should be a list with serial numbers of god and bad synth revisions. The Sixtrak battery costs 15,- USD + some USD for shipping I think, at wine country, http://www.winecountrysequential.com/page17.html. I hope I can start to make my first real song with Linux, without troubles any more, therefore I will use virtual synth, but writing about that old synth I get back the passion to use some old synths. I'm a guitarist without MIDI pickup, but my Matrix-1000 has a special guitar mode. Cheers, Ralf
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