I don't have a DX-7, but I may have a cure anyway.
Did you check the MIDI settings? There should be something called "local
off" and "local on". You can set every Midi-Synth to bypass the internal
Synth and play only remote keyboards. I bet that's what it is...
If you get it working, look on ebay for the Yamaha CX-5M music computer.
This was a MSX compatible computer. There is a great DX-7 editor available
for it.
More about the Yamaha CX-5M computer here:
http://home.online.no/%7Eeiriklie/CX5MFAQ.html
Greetings
Herbert
on 1/12/2004 6:25 PM, Brian Chase at vaxzilla_at_jarai.org wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, The Design Fort DTP wrote:
>
>> "Old" Synths like the Roland D-50, the Kawai K1 or the Korg M1 still
>> fetch great prices on ebay and are a pleasure to use. Has anybody ever
>> heard of the Fairlight music computer system of the 80s? Boy would I
>> ever like to have one of those... :) Yamaha had a MSX music computer
>> based on the most successful synthesizer of all time - The Yamaha DX7
>
> Well, I was going to ask about this on here at some point, but is there
> anyone on the list familiar with guts of Yamaha's DX7 II-FD? A number
> of years ago, one of my co-workers dumped her dead DX7 on me.
>
> It's been dragged across the country once and stored up in my attic for
> a while, until the last week or so. The initial symptoms were that none
> of its buttons worked and it failed to generate any sound. Inside I
> found a small and very dead battery soldered to the board which holds
> the main processors and memory. After soldering in a proper battery
> holder and replacing the battery, the synth lit up very happily once I
> powered it on. All the front buttons seem to work, and I can choose
> between the numerous available patches, but still there's no sound. At
> least I'm not able to get anything out of the headphone jack or the two
> audio jacks on the back of the keyboard.
>
> Does anyone happen to have any additional adice for me or schematics
> for this fellow?
>
> -brian.
Received on Mon Jan 12 2004 - 16:47:06 GMT