Xpantastic!

Hello Andy,

Great Sounds BTW.  You didn't waste anytime gettin deep into the programming.

You might want to get the backup battery for the memory replaced. It is still 
available, 

but is a lithium type, and these are getting harder to ship around by air.
Although my original is still doing fine after 30 + years. 

The largest fail by far are the coupling caps on the voice board. There are 
several of these for
each voice. However they are inexpensive and readily available from most 
electronic supply houses.

Best Regards

Karl




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From: sonofprent <sonofprent@...>
To: xpantastic@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, August 4, 2011 4:25:56 AM
Subject: [xpantastic] Intro and questions

  
Hello, finally got hold of an xpander last week, absolutely love it. Some of my 
first sounds out of it here: http://soundcloud.com/t1b/sets/xpander/

Im not really a vintage chap but I make exception for the XP, always amazes me 
that no-one has ever really topped it in the 25 years it has been out. I guess 
the andromeda came close but since its not a desktop synth and looks like a mid 
90's car stereo Im ruling it out.

Anyway, Ive a few questions:

CEM's- anyone know of anywhere with a few spare VCO and filter chips. Is that 
all I should be stocking up on or is there anything else prone to faliure?

OS- Im not on the most recent OS (think Im on 1.0 and 1.2), everything is 
running perfect so Im tempted to leave as is- is there anything Im missing out 
on by not upgrading? Was it just a bug fix upgrade?

Manual: I have a PDF I can print though I was wondering if anywhere stocks 
printed & bound manuals?

Cheers,

Andy/tIB/sonofprent