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From: phil@sdcsvax.UUCP (Phil Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Rack mount Yamaha gear
Message-ID: <745@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 19:20:47 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.745
Posted: Tue Mar 19 19:20:47 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Mar-85 04:23:55 EST
Reply-To: phil@sdcsvax.UUCP (Phil Cohen)
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Keywords: Yamaha, DX, sequencer
Summary: 

Yamaha has a sequencer intended to be used with their rack mount DX
gear.  It has 8 tracks that each go to a different midi out jack.
It looks like if you have the full 8 module DX rack, each track 
goes to a separate DX module.  They also have a splitter that
sends one midi out to up to 8 midi thru ports.  You could use this 
to play all 8 modules from one midi controller ( a ninth DX! )
without midi thru delays.

Can you imagine?  One DX playing 16 string voices, one playing
16 horn voices, etc., etc,  all driven from the sequencer.

The sequencer has a floppy disk in it and stores up to 80,000 notes.
That's enough to play an entire album.

I can see it now, buying sequencer floppies at your local music store
and then listening to next-best-thing-to-live performances!
Could this sort of technology eventually replace record albums and
CD's???

The literature claims that hearing this system play is an
unforgettable experience.
I don't doubt it.

Phil