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Topic: Boss DR5 rythm machine, related gear. |
Philip Bender
From:
Palmetto FL USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Feb 2007 8:38 am |
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Hello all, 
I have a couple of questions for you all,
1. Does anyone use a Boss DR5 rythm machine?
2. Does anyone know of a device by Yamaha that up loads, and down loads via a floppy drive for accumulating a library of tunes for the DR5, and transfering songs, between Dr5 units?
Thanks for any info.
Phil[/i] |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 4 Feb 2007 9:00 am
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This doesn't really belong in the Steel Without Pedals section. I'm moving it to Electronics.
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Philip Bender
From:
Palmetto FL USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Feb 2007 9:06 am DR5
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Thanks Brad, I thought as much, but DUH I am white headed.
Phil |
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Don LaCourse
From:
Spring Hill, FL, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2007 11:10 am yamaha
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| hi , i just picked up a yamaha drum machine i cant figure it out and it has a manual and it is in nice cond. i guess im dumb, and i hate manuals, page after page of gobbly goop. ill sell it for 50.00. to any one that can understand them. i got too many toys any way. DON |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2007 12:42 pm
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I have used a DR5 for years. I store my songs on a 3.5 floppy and use the same midi-filer to operate the DR-5 in real time, via a midi cable connection.
I use an old Peavey Midi Streamer. Only disadvantage is that the disc format is not recognized my PC. The Yamaha filer should work excellent as well. |
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Al Van Why
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2007 2:21 pm
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All of Billy Cooper's recordings were done with a DR5.
The Yamaha is a midi data filer (MDF3), he also uses. |
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sonbone
From:
Waxahachie, TX
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Posted 5 Feb 2007 2:06 am
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I use a DR5 and store songs and patches on my laptop. I have a usb midi interface and use a program called MIDIOX for transfering the midi data (sysex). http://www.midiox.com/
Sonny
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Andy Barlo
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Schererville, Indiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 5 Feb 2007 4:47 am
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Hi Phil,
I also use the Yamaha midi data filer (MDF 3). You can usually find them on ebay for around a $100. You can download your songs from the DR5 to the floppy on the MDF3 using a midi cable for the transfer and upload back th the DR5. You must have got this from Don, right? Email me if you need help or talk to Frank Brandengurg.
Andy Barlo |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2007 7:34 am
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I like the laptop idea! A lot more versatile than my midi-storage unit.
I wonder if you could not play standard midi files on the DR-5 from the laptop? |
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sonbone
From:
Waxahachie, TX
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Posted 6 Feb 2007 4:08 pm
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Ken, yes you can play standard midi files from your laptop with the DR5. You can easily record songs from the DR5 onto your laptop as midi files and play them back with the DR5. However, since the DR5 is not a General Midi device some of the sounds are in different locations (midi note numbers). For the most part, it is easier to play midi files which were created with the DR5 than to play midi files obtained from elsewhere (which could involve some programming of the DR5 to get the right instrument sounds.) One caveat to this is that many of the GM sounds are in similar locations on the DR5, so some basic files play OK. Clear as mud, isn't it? 
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2007 7:35 pm
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| I understand completely! Thanks for the info on that. Now to find a basic laptop! |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 8 Feb 2007 5:48 pm
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http://www.midiox.com/
The Midiox program is up and running. I have had success so far at transferring SySEx files back and forth from my midi librarian. I can also send and receive from a Profex 2.
The next thing to figure out is how to record a midi sequence into the computer from a Dr-5 or my librarian (Peavey Midi-Filer)
A DR-5 system dump is easy as well (all songs and date, another SysEx message)
Lots of fun! |
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sonbone
From:
Waxahachie, TX
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Posted 9 Feb 2007 1:10 pm
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Ken, I've always had good luck using the computer recording program as the master device for timing and setting the DR5 as the slave. I use an old midi program called Master Tracks Pro 6. I just hit the record button on the Master Tracks and it starts the DR5 and records which ever song or pattern I have the DR5 set on.
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