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Rangoon · 5th June 2009

The OBSX would become a hot keyboard if Encore Electronics (Tony Karavidas) would make a MIDI interface for it. Here's why. Generally with his stuff you can port in patches through system exclusive into the new memory which is on the kit (which replaces the old memory circuits). This means that you could port in sounds from the OBX, which in turn means that the OBSX becomes a fully variable synthesizer....albeit the variability has to come from a "mother keyboard" (the OBX). It would be the same idea as a with the Yamaha DX7 and TX7, where one is fully variable and the other is fully variable in the sense that it takes patch data from the mother keyboard. Of course you don't physically need to have the mother keyboard, you just aquire OBX patch data from some third party and load it in...

5th June 2009	#21
Rangoon Gear nut Joined: Dec 2008 Location: Washington DC Posts: 105	The OBSX would become a hot keyboard if Encore Electronics (Tony Karavidas) would make a MIDI interface for it. Here's why. Generally with his stuff you can port in patches through system exclusive into the new memory which is on the kit (which replaces the old memory circuits). This means that you could port in sounds from the OBX, which in turn means that the OBSX becomes a fully variable synthesizer....albeit the variability has to come from a "mother keyboard" (the OBX). It would be the same idea as a with the Yamaha DX7 and TX7, where one is fully variable and the other is fully variable in the sense that it takes patch data from the mother keyboard. Of course you don't physically need to have the mother keyboard, you just aquire OBX patch data from some third party and load it in...