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Frontier Design – Dakota MIDI Breakout Cable Pinout

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or HOW TO REVERSE ENGINEER AN OBSOLETE, UNOBTAINABLE, AND NON-VENDOR-SUPPORTED BREAKOUT CABLE It’s a common thing to lose accessories, and a great many items are sold on the used market without instruction manuals, power cords, drivers (or other mandatory software), and adapters of various kinds. Some of these items can … Continue reading

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E-mu Emulator II Factory Bank Library

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The factory library for the Emu Emulator 2 sampler contains many classic sounds used in a plethora of ’80s New Wave / Synth Pop hits (and beyond), yet the complete collection is hard to find. There are various versions floating around on the Internet, but none of them have the … Continue reading

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RME Audio Drivers Archive

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Please visit the official RME website first to see if your driver, software, and/or manual is available there. This archive is only offered as a courtesy in the event that rme-audio.de is down or inaccessible, restructured, or in the event that software is removed from their official archives. Although RME … Continue reading

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E-mu Emax & Emax II Factory Libraries

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If you have been looking on the Internet for sounds for your E-mu Emax, you probably have found the one major repository of factory sound banks at http://www.hermannseib.com/english/synths/emax/banks.htm, but have also likely noticed that it is incomplete and has not been maintained for quite some time. You may have also … Continue reading

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Nord Lead Laser Harp

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This tutorial covers a lot of basic synthesizer programming using a Nord Lead 2, and specifically targets how to approach the Elka Synthex “laser harp” sound Jean Michel Jarre has famously used. One of the core concepts is oscillator sync / hard sync / sync lead. This is a technique used in a lot of analog synths in the ’70s and 80s which provides an aggressive cutting sound.

Follow along step-by-step and you will have no problem understanding how to achieve this sound, and many extra sounds besides.

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