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I have an old Yamaha QY-70 kicking around and while writing the above post I realized that it would serve perfectly well as a MIDI synth for retro gaming. It's fully General MIDI compatible and everything! A video by a random someone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_q9Gx_5lGU It's basically a 16 channel MIDI sequencer and a real high quality Yamaha tone generator from 1997 jammed into what could be described as a musical Game Boy. It takes 6 AAs for a few hours of composing action on the go. I still use it to put together ambient ditties and to drive my small collection of crappy cheap synths. It's one of the weirdest pieces of old music tech I know and I love it to bits.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Wait, are they really that expensive these days? I've got an MT-32 that I bought second hand from some guy for like 20 euros in the early 2000s. Works just fine, but with MT-32 emulation being pretty drat good these days and MIDI ports being pretty drat rare these days, I don't have it hooked up to anything. The early 2000s were, like, 70 years ago.
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I wish I’d bought one when they were $60 on eBay. The cheapest ones I saw the last time I looked were at least $200. I’ll probably just do a Pi or FPGA based alternative at some point.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Wait, are they really that expensive these days? I've got an MT-32 that I bought second hand from some guy for like 20 euros in the early 2000s. Works just fine, but with MT-32 emulation being pretty drat good these days and MIDI ports being pretty drat rare these days, I don't have it hooked up to anything. There is a longer time between 2022 and 2000 than 2000 and 1987 (MT-32 release). No wonder they are more expensive now. But as an old man I feel your pain. Early 2000s feels like yesterday still.
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lobsterminator posted:There is a longer time between 2022 and 2000 than 2000 and 1987 (MT-32 release). No wonder they are more expensive now. The 70s were 20 years ago, what are you talking about? Edit: oh god
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barbecue at the folks posted:I have an old Yamaha QY-70 kicking around and while writing the above post I realized that it would serve perfectly well as a MIDI synth for retro gaming. It's fully General MIDI compatible and everything! A video by a random someone: My busking uncle had a similar Roland device, used it for backing tracks. Awesome little things really.
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Sam Battle is a mad genius... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKROdxOyX-Q
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My media ingest server has a new friend LG GGW-H20L CD/DVD/BluRay/HD-DVD Drive:  Playing Top Gun from HD-DVD (which takes quite a bit of buggering around and  )
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Sam Battle is a mad genius...
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Humphreys posted:My media ingest server has a new friend I had one of those! Sadly it stopped reading discs entirely a few years ago and I took it out of my current PC build. I still have it somewhere, I might have a go at fixing it some time. It was great when they withdrew support for the HD-DVD format, a lot of stores were flogging off their HD-DVD stock for like a dollar each, so you could build up a pretty good collection dirt cheap.
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Bargearse posted:I had one of those! Sadly it stopped reading discs entirely a few years ago and I took it out of my current PC build. I still have it somewhere, I might have a go at fixing it some time. Yeah I have a stack of sealed ones. I covent my Fast and the Furious ones lol. Unfortunately my Matrix has a huge gash on the feature side... so doesn't count anymore on my complete Matrix physical media collection. Reordered the trilogy pack which looks to be the individual releases in a box to fulfill that bit. Now I I'm also playing the waiting game on some dickhead on Facebook to actually send me the VCD release. Who would have thought getting the VCD would be harder than the Laserdisc...
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Take it away Joe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nHjCWl_Xg&t=54s
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I bricked my BD/HDDVD Drive last night! All thanks to the official firmware updater from LG requiring XP/Vista. This is the second model of these drives I have bricked, but after a long night and a day of thinking and researching.... Old Aspire One Netboot running Win XP, a USB HDD hub that has enough juice to power the drive (a shucked HDD board didn't behave) and a SATA extension and we have WINRAR!  EDIT: First one recovered! Now I''ll wait til theres no users on my server before i poke around SATA channels on it. EDIT 2: Second one lives again. Have some chaos: 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Sam Battle is a mad genius... Well I went down the rabbit hole on this channel, and found a delightful techmoan crossover that also showcases his fully functional step switch exchange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzH7DSsD3g
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A relic and a cursed item.
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In the spirit of old audio gear, look at what I found locally for $50 Roland CR-5000 CompuRhythm, Strauss SFX-DL3 Delay Pedal and Washburn WA50 Amp  Guitar Amp works with my guitar, haven't tested the Delay Pedal (seems it could be Aussie made, not much info) and the Roland powers on and works but no output.
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It's funny to compare all the technical details this gives you about what might be the problem to the very simple page shown today in Chrome. And to think about what that says about changing fashions in design, and changes in how people use computers and think about them e: don't know who changed my avatar but it definitely undercuts my thoughtful tone a bit, lol
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Yeah now things are like "oopsie-whoopsie! there was a wittle bit of a pwobwem!" rather than giving any useful information.
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BattleMaster posted:Yeah now things are like "oopsie-whoopsie! there was a wittle bit of a pwobwem!" rather than giving any useful information. It seems like these days the easier to use something is, the more of a pain in the arse it is fix when it inevitably breaks.
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Bargearse posted:It seems like these days the easier to use something is, the more of a pain in the arse it is fix when it inevitably breaks. Quora should be banned from google search results.
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Bargearse posted:It seems like these days the easier to use something is, the more of a pain in the arse it is fix when it inevitably breaks. Oh, you don't need to tell me that, my work computer is an imac
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Humphreys posted:Quora should be banned 
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Bargearse posted:It seems like these days the easier to use something is, the more of a pain in the arse it is fix when it inevitably breaks. That’s a pretty well established rule, see also cars
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Roland Fixed. Traced back up to the main board and yup the volume pot has copped some abuse. 5 second zero dollar fix  https://i.imgur.com/3wBzegK.mp4  
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Bargearse posted:It seems like these days the easier to use something is, the more of a pain in the arse it is fix when it inevitably breaks. This is really frustrating when I know there is likely a setting somewhere that's messed up but I'm not allowed to see or access the settings because "it just works". Also there is no access to support besides posting to a newsgroup (in 2017) that no one will ever check because whoever made the app hosed off to something else. Thanks Google.
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The "user friendly front end, but you can get to all the parts if something breaks" model seems very hard to do right - or maybe the only ones with a real incentive to try are open source developers with very limited resources?
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Cojawfee posted:This is really frustrating when I know there is likely a setting somewhere that's messed up but I'm not allowed to see or access the settings because "it just works". Also there is no access to support besides posting to a newsgroup (in 2017) that no one will ever check because whoever made the app hosed off to something else. Thanks Google. The best thing is when you try do try to get support, and some "community volunteer" with a long list of industry certifications in their forum sig gives you the same textbook correct answer you already tried and it didn't loving work.
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Bargearse posted:The best thing is when you try do try to get support, and some "community volunteer" with a long list of industry certifications in their forum sig gives you the same textbook correct answer you already tried and it didn't loving work. ah i see you've been on the microsoft help forums
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:ah i see you've been on the microsoft help forums Yep. At least if you've got a 365 tenant, you've got the option of bringing the problem up with a Microsoft partner, and if they're stumped they can speak with an actual engineer. There's an actual escalation process in place. Source: I work for a Microsoft 365 partner oh god please send help and / or booze
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A few buttons on the synth aren't working properly. Of course there's one source to figure out the dissassembly of them and it's only on the archive. Lucky photos still work! https://web.archive.org/web/20140722030036/http://audiobusters.com/reparations-bidouilles/boutons-roland-cr-5000 Some fantastic corrosion. The issue is mainly on the pads, not the contacts in the switches so tomorrow some foil tape should do the job! 
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Bargearse posted:Yep. At least if you've got a 365 tenant, you've got the option of bringing the problem up with a Microsoft partner, and if they're stumped they can speak with an actual engineer. There's an actual escalation process in place. We know our 365 partner is rubbish so we always jump them and go straight to microsoft.
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So, CRD's latest video is a delight. He takes a 5.25" 5 disc CD changer drive with a neat party piece to its logical conclusion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuhRfvIkn0 that montage at 23 minutes 
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an actual frog posted:So, CRD's latest video is a delight. He takes a 5.25" 5 disc CD changer drive with a neat party piece to its logical conclusion
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I had a 7-disc external scsi changer I got off eBay in 99 or so, fun to see a modern take on it, which was my take at the time: cool in limited circumstances.
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an actual frog posted:So, CRD's latest video is a delight. He takes a 5.25" 5 disc CD changer drive with a neat party piece to its logical conclusion I had always wondered how those in-dash CD changers worked, but never got around to looking it up. Now, I know.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I had always wondered how those in-dash CD changers worked, but never got around to looking it up. Last time I post about the CompuRhythm, but 100% working now with no dead buttons thanks to creative work with copper tape:  https://i.imgur.com/ZrEYDkv.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/6t9aGHG.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/RIU92lm.mp4
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Humphreys posted:Last time I post about the CompuRhythm, but 100% working now with no dead buttons thanks to creative work with copper tape: I have one old analog drum machine with similar preset beats and with that I can press down two presets and it (unintentionally, I assume) makes some weird combination of those two. Can you try pressing two style presets down to see if that has a similar quirk?
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lobsterminator posted:I have one old analog drum machine with similar preset beats and with that I can press down two presets and it (unintentionally, I assume) makes some weird combination of those two. Can you try pressing two style presets down to see if that has a similar quirk? It does. I found a lot of older tech that has baked in effects suffers by this. I still remember my first 'circuit bending' was as a kid I had a Robocop toy that had 8 samples of effects. And if you pushed a combo of certain pairs, you got a third. Probably my first encounter of keypad matrices to be more accurate as I wasn't directly tweaking hardware. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:00 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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Clickspring has a new video up on a real tech relic. It blows my mind how precise precision engineering was even decades or hundreds of year before CNC tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoNK8wVz63Q
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