Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!zadco From: zadco@ssc-vax.UUCP (Rick Fairfield) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: MIDI Specs (the SYNERGY) Message-ID: <412@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 22:19:44 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.412 Posted: Tue Feb 12 22:19:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:25:12 EST References: <105@gitpyr.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 24 > I'll soon be upgrading my dkSynergy by adding an RS-232/MIDI > interface. Is there anyone out there who's done the upgrade? > It sounds pretty simple, but it's always nice to get a second > opinion... Included with the upgrade you mention is what DK calls the VRAM board, which allows you to voice the Synergy, and a bunch of software that runs on a Kaypro computer (or with some modification on any Z80, CP/M machine). This package makes the Synergy real close to a GDS which costs about $30000.00. I used such a system over Christmas vacation; it's real swell stuff. I have had the RS232 interface on my Synergy for a year but haven't used it in that time (no computer). I just recently added the MIDI/VRAM upgrade and bought a KAYPRO computer. I've had some trouble getting my system to talk to the computer because of an incompatability with my rev. of the RS232 board and the MIDI/VRAM upgrade. DK is sending me a new RS232 board. One problem with the system is that there is currently no MIDI interface available for the KAYPRO. I hear rumors that there might be one soon. Any more Synergy owners out there? Any GDS users? Anyone friends with Wendy Carlos? zzzzzadco