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- NEWS AM/FM Issue #9
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- Kawai K4 ROM upgrades
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- Due to a minor bug in the Kawai K4's v1.2 ROM chips, users have been
- complaining about some annoying clicking that appears on a certain type of
- sounds where the synth's filters open rapidly. The only way to avoid this
- clicking is to delay the opening of the sound's filters, thereby changing the
- sound's characteristics. However, Kawai has recently launched a new batch of
- K4's, with version 1.3 ROMs, and in this version, the "clicking" problem has
- been overcome.
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- If you're planning to buy a K4, it might be worth checking which version of
- the ROM's the synth has. Do this by holding down the SYSTEM button while
- turning on the synth. The version number will be shown at the bottom right
- hand side of the display.
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- Owners of v1.2 K4's can go to their nearest Kawai dealer and have the ROMs
- upgraded for a small amount.
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- EPS Plus Turbo Kit
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- U.S. company Martists offer good news to EPS Plus owners: Low-cost RAM
- expansion, SCSI-interface and Flashbank! These products can be purchased
- separately, or together. Wrapped together in an upgrade pack, they are known
- as the "EPS Plus Turbo Kit".
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- New sound cards for Roland's U-series
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- Third party developer "Musitronic" has come up with two new sound cards for
- the Roland U-series (U110, U220 etc.). The two cards are: "Voices" and
- "Analogue".
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- SY77-PCMEX and TG77-PCMEX
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- From Musitronics: The long awaited PCM expansion card for the Yamaha SY77 /
- TG77 is at last available! (PCM is basically just a term for "sampled
- sounds") The total of 8 MB of PCM waveform datas include real piano sounds
- (now that's a first one for Yamaha [Ed]), Acoustic guitars, several bass
- sounds, brass, strings, choir and some very impressive drum- and percussion
- samples.
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- E-MU Proteus MPS
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- A new synth/workstation from E-MU is the Proteus MPS. It has 61
- touch-sensitive keys, a collection of the the best sounds from Proteus and
- Proformance, and it is said to have superb digital effects.
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- Korg M1-EX
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- It's upgrade-time for your M1. The M1-Ex doubles the M1's sample memory from
- 4 to an impressive 8 Mb. When Korg released their T-series some time after
- the M1, then these 8 Mb of sample memory was a great improvement. Now, with
- the M1-Ex, you can turn your M1 into a T3 for only a fraction of the price.
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- Proteus on world tour (?)
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- Proteus/3 World is a new, very special and very weird synth module. ALL the
- sounds in it are exotic and ethnic world instruments. There are 4 Mb of
- 16-bit samples, 16 channels multitimbral, 32 tones polyphony. Here you won't
- find pianos, brass, strings, basses etc., but you WILL find heaps of exotic
- instruments from Africa, Australia, Europe, Indonesia, Japan, the Middle-East,
- South America, etc. etc. Something original at last?
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