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SDE Manual

SDE Manual

2005-05-11 by Steve Ridley

The good news - The full "Creative use of your SDE" manual 
is scanned, PDFed and ready for you to read and enjoy.

The bad news - not enough file space to upload it - and it's
only a 1.05M file.

Does anyone have a patch sheet or other extra SDE
documentation?  The "Creative use..." manual refers to
some stuff at the back of the manual which doesn't seem
to be there - voices and how the controls behave for 
different types of sound.

As these things are now approaching 20 years old, you
may find theat you can't store patches.  The Nicad backup
battery in mine has given up, and I guess others will be the 
same.  I might try modding mine to take a lithium battery,
which will be more reliable and less likely to leak - I'll
have to remove the charging resistor at least.

Someone asked about the input jack on the SDE.  I can't
find any mention of it in the manual either, but it's a mono
jack and any signal stuffed in there appears on the output.
I guess it's for mixing in other sources.

BTW, has anyone got a schematic for the SDE?


Steve

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