Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I wonder if you could point me in the direction of this yamaha forum? I was 
planning (for a future project in creating a 128MB SR-JV80 module which would 
hold (strangely enough) 16 x 8MB SR-JV80 images. 


My plan was to also allow it to be programmable via USB, and write some software 
as a librarian which would allow the user to have a library of all the presets 
that are available, then to select which ones they want to use with the software 
automatically packing the corresponding waveforms into a ROM image. In that way 
you can put the presets that you want to hear into the single image that you 
want to use.

Of course there's no point in me doing it if someone else is doing the same or 
similar. I have 18 (of 19 [if you don't includes the "experience" and the 
japanese latin variant]) SR-JV80 ROMs but my trusty old JV-2080 only has 8 
sockets :-( And I really like some of the presets on the old thing so some way 
of throwing them together into a single custom image would be very useful. 


Also the price for some is about $40 but others are asking $200 for less common 
ones. I think that some price relief would be welcome!!

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Strangely enough I hadn't thought of doing the same thing for the proteus ROMs 
until just now. Would anyone be particularly interested in some librarian 
software that:
  - keeps a repository of all possible waveforms (from ROMs or other sources) 
  - tracks presets that use the waveforms
  - keeps a repository of demos, beats, arpeggios etc
  - allows you to select presets (or waveforms) in any order
  - shows you which preset you can get "for free" (ie use waveforms already 
included due to other selected presets)

  - packs the waveforms into a ROM image (up to 32MB)
  - allows you to select demos and other extras together with presets (up to 
4MB)
  - allows you to transfer your custom images to the FLASH ROM

I suppose the first use of such software would be to combine the Protozoa and 
Holy Grail ROMs into a single image (Holy-Zoa or Proto-Grail), but I was going 
to do that anyway.



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From: Bruno <brunorc@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, January 3, 2011 6:52:18 AM
Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: FLASH SIMM

   
 BTW: there's a guy on Yamaha forums, who works on super-duper, 16-in-1
memory cards for Yamaha synths/modules. Its release would definitely
dramatically cut the prices of all the memory cards already present on
the market. Everyone knows this, ane everyone rejoices.