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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:	* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Moderator:	DYPSS1::SCHAFER

Created:	Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Aug 29 1994
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2852
Total number of notes:	33157

143.0. "Multi-timbral synths" by SPEEDY::BENSON () Tue Sep 10 1985 18:10

The multi-timbral synths I'm aware of are the Sequential Six-trak and 
Multi-trak, and the Casio CS101, 1000, and 5000. Do you know of any
others? Do you have any experience with them?

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
143.1		SAUTER::SAUTER	`Wed Sep 11 1985 08:01`	4
	Roland has a synthesizer named something like TX816, which is the equivilant of eight DX7s in a rack. Each of the eight timbers is 16-note polyphonic. John Sauter
143.2		NOVA::RAVAN	`Wed Sep 11 1985 15:49`	3
	I think John means 'Yamaha', not 'Roland'. -jim
143.3		OLORIN::CZOTTER	`Wed Sep 11 1985 15:46`	8
	John, John! How could you make such a mistake when you are a DX7 owner? You, of course, meant to say Yamaha, not Roland. I, being a Roland crazed person, would have stooped to claiming they made such a cool device, but not you. By the way, the Roland Super Jupiter (MKS-80) is a rack mount MIDI synth that can play 1-timber/8-notes or 2-timber/4-notes-per in split or dual mode. (I own one). Ted
143.4		OLORIN::CZOTTER	`Thu Sep 12 1985 13:08`	4
	Jim, I replied before you did but yours got in first. That's not fair. Ted
143.5		SIVA::FEHSKENS	`Thu Sep 12 1985 15:14`	19
	Ted - my MKS-80 is not multitimbral except in split mode. There's also the Sequential Six-Trak. The Casio model number is CZ-101, rather than CS. (A nit.) The Oberheim Matrix-12 is multitimbral, I think, and (like the MKS-80) has separate outputs per timbre (so you can EQ them differently should you want to). There are now many offspring of the Matrix-12 and I don't know if they retain multitimbralness (multitimbrality?). The Fender Rhodes Chroma Polaris is sort of multitimbral - it will do two programs on two adjacent MIDI channels (main and link). I think you can get it do the same from the keyboard (i.e., split keyboard), but I haven't used mine this way, so I'm not sure. That's all I can think of at the moment. len.
143.6		SAUTER::SAUTER	`Fri Sep 13 1985 09:02`	9
	re: .2, .3--Yes, I meant Yamaha; Sorry. re: .5--A good keyboard (such as Ted's) implements "split keyboard" by transmitting on two MIDI channels at once. Such a keyboard would be able to play two timbres on the Fender Rhodes Chroma Polaris. The Yamaha TX816 uses eight channels for its eight timbres. John Sauter
143.7		SIVA::FEHSKENS	`Fri Sep 13 1985 10:01`	17
	A minor clarification: The MKS-80 (Super Jupiter) does in fact play two timbres at the same time in dual mode, but they both play the same notes. This is like having 4 oscillators per voiceinstead of just two. The MKS-80 has the nice ability to work with either an ordinary keyboard that doesn't know from splits (you tell the MKS-80 where the split point is, and based on the MIDI note number coming in it assigns the note to the appropriate program) or nice keyboards (like the Roland MKB-1000) that split themselves (by sending on two adjacent MIDI channels, routing keyboard events to the appropriate channel based on the split point selected at tke keyboard). The Polaris does have a split keyboard feature, I'd just forgotten how to invoke it. Any other Polaris owners out there ahould be aware that there's an ECO to the Polaris MIDI implementation. See your dealer about getting yours updated. len.