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Aphex Twin's MIDI-modded Yamaha GX-1 goes up for sale for almost £100,000

If you fancy owning a piece of synth history, here's your chance. Not only is the Yamaha GX-1 one of the rarest, most coveted synthesizers money can buy, a polyphonic analogue behemoth that marked the ...
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Yamaha SW60XG Hack Lets You Use It As A Standalone MIDI Device

This is a Yamaha XG card, the SW60XG to be exact. It’s an audio card for a PC which extends the MIDI standard to include over six hundred instruments. By today’s standards the almost twenty year old ...
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Synth wars: The story of MIDI, the one interface that ruled them all

CV/Gate, DCB, USI, UMI and The Oberheim System… This is the story of how synth’s biggest players narrowly averted a standards war and made sweet music together When you purchase through links on our ...
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Aphex Twin's MIDI-modded Yamaha GX-1 goes up for sale for almost £100,000

Fewer than 100 of these ultra-rare analogue behemoths were ever made - and this one was owned by Richard D. James himself When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...