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Re: [CZsynth] Re: Hello - Has anyone here dismantled a CZ-101 before?

2012-03-11 by Ullrich Peter

Hi!
>HA! congratulations! it really makes it what it should be.
>i wonder why i sold mine...bad period. but i recently picked up
>a vz8 for 60quid(to replace one i sold also, same reason), and
>have the ra500 for that. having random'ed both to ####, i went
>for vz, but still love that little 101. truly a classic.
>see if you can find czartist for pc/mac. does it respond to
>sysex?
>
>latest idle thought is: can these memory devices be cloned?
>they go for silly prices. or can the card input be used for
>memory from other devices?

You could of course clone the RA500 catrifges.You can see a photo of an opened card and the schematics here:
http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/manuals/casio_ra-500_ram_card.zip

Ciao
Peter

PS: And some pictures of my opened CZ-101 on my datadial site (my self designed synth addon I also built into my CZ-101). http://go.to/datadial 
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