Fred Cisin
wrote:
5150 cassette (DRIVE is available, interface
isn't)
Nah, comes on ebay once a week.
Hang on, the format of the 5150 cassette recording is given in the
TechRef. Now I've not tried this, and I've not got the hardware to do it,
but surely you could play the tape on a normal audio recorder into a
modern PC soundcard and analyse the signals in software. A modern PC
should be easily fast enough
A lot of emulators for 8-bit machines do this. I can't see it being
difficult to work out for the 5150.
What *is* a cool hack is software that will turn sysex dumps for old
synths that support patch storage on tape *and* sysex into tape tones,
and vice-versa. Alesis Freeloader springs to mind.
Gordon.