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From: gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: DX7 Inquiry
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 09:11:32 EDT
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> 
> I do not own a dx-7 but from what I understand there is a manual out
> by a Japanese guy (KenFujita??????) that is supposed to be pretty
> useful. One of the last two or three KeyboardMagazines had a review of
> it in their 'Reviews' column.
> keith hedger - intermetrics

The book in question is about the only one out, and ITS a Japanese translation-
nearly a verbatim one, from my general knowledge of Nihonspeak. Expect lots of
dropped articles and peculiar translations (for example, the Brit translator
uses "tickle" for "modulate". From my point of view, it's very little different
from the owner's manual padded with lots of extra examples and pictures of
data entry sequences. The advantage it *does* have is a complete listing of
the presets for both the international and the regular DX, plus a couple of
peculiar patches that Yasuhiro (or is it Katsuhiro? Yeah, I bet that's it)
Fukuda has come up with himself. If you're looking for the perfect intuitive
book on learning additive synthesis, forget it. I hope this helps.

Greg