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My only experience with MSX has been the Yamaha CX5 M2 I bought used in the mid 80s to be used as synthesizer. Thanks to its internal synthesizer chipset, it ha
by squarefoot 3y ago
My only experience with MSX has been the Yamaha CX5 M2 I bought used in the mid 80s to be used as synthesizer. Thanks to its internal synthesizer chipset, it had similar functionality to the poor man's DX7s of that time, that is, the DX9 and later the DX21, but being able to edit patches on a monitor rather than on a small character display was extremely useful. I found it at a significant lower price than a full keyboard and used it for some years with my Amiga as a sequencer and a couple other keyboards. Was a pretty little machine which sounded good, but was also pretty much single purpose as there was not much other software to use it with.
- buescher 3y agoIn the nineties, there was one of the Yamaha machines in the window of a music store I used to walk by. What a pretty computer. Many of the Japanese MSX machines hit a real "cyberdeck" nerve in retrospect but I remember it looking better than the pictures I can find online. I vaguely recall they were asking way too much.