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vonhaulshoven schreef:

> is there anyone who has build an an1x into a 19inch module?
> should it be pssible?

Yamaha did, the AN1r. When the result was ready for production, the 
project was canned.

I'm not familiar with the innards of the AN1x, but a friend of mine has 
one with only half the polyphony, which suggests that there are two DSP 
(digital signal processor) chips on board that take care of the sound.

If you look here:

http://launch.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/AN1x-list/photos/browse/b3c9

http://launch.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/AN1x-list/photos/browse/43eb

you'll see some internal pictures of the AN1x. The circuit boards aren't 
very big, so from that point of view, it should work. The one thing you 
might have to worry about is software: what will happen if you remove 
the keyboard?

The reason why I'm mentioning this is because my EX5R (rack), before I 
sold it and got an EX5 (keyboard), had a different ROM. The difference 
between the machines is, apart from the keyboard, 24 voice selection 
buttons and their LEDs, the extra MIDI in/out on the EX5, so maybe it's 
just that, and there would be nothing to worry about with a racked AN1x.

You'd need a 2U rack, probably, to have room for the display (they're 
larger than the visible area) and all knobs and buttons. 19" might even 
be tight to fit everything.

- Peter