Blog entries tagged as 'Musical Equipment'

• Introduction to Reverse-Engineering Vintage Synth Firmware

  2024.03.18
  A gentle introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synthesiser ROMs using the Ghidra disassembler.

• Hacking the Yamaha DX9 To Turn It Into a DX7

  2023.04.10
  A brief account of hacking the Yamaha DX9's firmware ROM to make its functionality more closely match the DX7.

• How the Yamaha FM Synth Cassette Interface Works

  2022.09.28
  A technical overview of how the cassette interface used in Yamaha's FM synthesisers encodes, and decodes patch data for external storage.

• Yamaha DX7 Official Technical Analysis

  2022.03.20
  A chance discovery on eBay has surfaced some of Yamaha's original technical documentation for the DX7 synthesiser.

• Yamaha DX7 Firmware ROM Disassembly

  2021.12.25
  A brief update regarding the reverse-engineering of the Yamaha DX7's firmware ROM.

• Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis

  2021.04.23
  An introductory technical analysis of the Yamaha DX7, detailing some of the known information about the synthesiser’s engineering.

• Casio CZ-101 Review

  2020.09.01
  A review of the Casio CZ-101 synthesizer, from the charitable perspective of someone with experience in ugly, digital noise: An industrial musician.