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Re: VZ8m Manual & FM Bit resolutions

2001-06-11 by tspeer@hmns.org

Summa- I do have a Scanner- It's in a box in my closet.
I could get it out & fire it up I suppose.

I think the manual has about 80 pages of so (can't remember off 
the top of my head). I assume you're not in the United States- so 
I couldn't just mail it to you (I'm willing to do that if you're in the 
states)- so you can use the info in your tutorial. 
   Alternatively ---I'll see what I can do about scanning the pages 
that relate to the algorihm diagrams/ specifics- would that be OK 
?
-PS- I did a Sound diver dump (actually had to dump from the VZ 
front panel to sound diver VZ10m profile) of the voices in my 
VZ8m last weekend- so I can post those this week on a page I'll 
create for the VZ on my website (I prefer to host the sounds there 
to have some traffic on my site).

My memory tells me I got the FM info from a Howard Massey (NY 
FM Guru from the 80's) FM programming book. I'm pretty sure the 
release date of the TX81z being in 1987 does not mean it is 16 
bit- because it is a rack version of a DX11 (and all the 4 operator 
Yamaha synths were 12 bit - except the FB-01 which was 10bit).
My apologies for mis-spelling John Chowning's name in the last 
email (I prefer a 12 tone to a QWERTY keyboard).

Todd :)

--- In CZsynth@y..., Summa <flotorian@y...> wrote:
> 
> I don't have the manual, do you have access to scanner, would 
be nice to
> have at least the part that answers some questions about 
sound programming
> or the possible connections of the oscillators... 
> I called the Casio support, they wanted to send me a letter 
wether they have
> a copy of the manual avaiable or not, but that was about 3 
month ago, so I'm
> not very optimistic about that...  
sounds... 
> 
> >Summa- I'm a bit surprised that you present different info on 
the DAC 
> >resolution of the DX series. I pride myself on providing uesful 
and 
> >accurate information. If i'm wrong, I'd sure like to know.
> >
> >Can you confirm your source of the TX81z being 16 bit ?
> 
> My source is the german Keys magazine, issue 2/98 FM 
special, they had a
> table with all FM synths, with the bit depth for almost every FM 
synth
> except SY22 and TG33... I also checked DX7II/11/81z articles 
from 1987 I
> found in the german Keyboards magazine, but they only 
confirmed that those
> new generation of Yamaha Synths have better converters but 
not mentioned the
> bit depth...
> 
> Summa

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