On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hang on a minute, these just take power and TTL-shifted MIDI to drive? > And they're about ten quid shipped to the UK? > > Why have I not found out about these before? I'm sure I had some old > IBM cards with a daughtercard like that - must have a poke about in the > shed... Welcome to the cult of the db50xg: http://www.dancetech.com/item.cfm?threadid=328 There's all sorts of ways to use this synthesizer -- I like the convenience of having it hidden inside the computer w/ no cables other than optical toslink coming out of the $1 dynex dx-sc51 hosting the db50xg-clone. Others prefer them separate: http://members.multiweb.nl/schaaijw/images/midi/db50xg-ext3.jpg http://members.multiweb.nl/schaaijw/images/midi/db50xg-ext1.jpg More info: http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/mu10.html ("YAMAHA XG editable: MU10, DB50XG, SW60XG, QS300") http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/articles/xgmasterclass.htm (Creative Synthesis with Yamaha XG, pt 1) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may04/articles/xgmasterclass.htm (Creative Synthesis with Yamaha XG, pt 2) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun04/articles/xgmasterclass.htm (Creative Synthesis with Yamaha XG, pt 3) http://www.soundonsound.com/soundbank/YamahaXG.php (sound examples from above series, and MIDI producing those sounds) http://electro-music.com/forum/phpbb-files/db50gde_276.doc ("THE DB50/SW60/MU10 GUIDE Written by : Nick Howes ... This guide also contains notes for developers & system programmers.") Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
