First post, by BitWrangler
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Greets all,
So I have a yamaha PSS of some kind put away, and another unit, might be a Casio, that may emerge from a bunch of stuff eventually, and I was wondering if there was much point in pursuing their use as general midi output devices on a DOS system. For making sound sound more betterer. Is the PSS gonna sound pretty much like OPL3 anyway? Don't know what they put in Casios. These are both full(ish) 49 or 44 key models with midi ports, found cheap years ago and put away to "screw around with midi and trackers some time" However, I think the yamaha developed a couple of dead keys, or maybe why it was cheap and I didn't notice, and the Casio fried its DC input somehow and will only take batteries at the moment. Anyway, to use them while I'm not "using" them per se, I thought, "what if I hung 'em up on the wall behind a retro box and hooked the MIDI up??". I thought, by the way, when picking them up these were more like top end consumer models rather than the good stuff that musicians try to earn a living with.
So what are we looking at "It'll work but not worth the effort vis a vis enhanced sound experience vs semi decent FM or wavetable" or "It don't quite work, not enough voices." or "Yass this is the ultimate MIDI experience short of an SC55" or "Way too much bother with cable wiring and crap to get a problematic halfass midi setup, if you just want a different kind of noise, drop some waterproof speakers in a half-full tin bathtub."
I've got plenty of stuff to play with, so more into a "is it a good use of play time" rather than a "this would be real interesting to find out for myself" approach, which is why I'm asking. Thanks for any thoughts.
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