Definitely. Especially on the Systemizer and Navigator, without the docs
you're going to be lost.

I need to get one of these of any stripe soon, so I can get a strummer, as I
have a Kurzweil 1000gx and good guitar strums sound amazing on that box.

-----Original Message-----
From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf
Of nelsonj_sce
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:35 PM
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [oberheim] Re: The Perf/X units are all the same board! Cyclone,
Strummer, Drummer plz read!

I would love to help, but I only have a Cyclone and don't have the tools to
read/write EPROMs.

I am insterested in experimenting...I you give me some more details, could
will ship you a chip if you burn it with the Systemizer, mail the chip back
to me. I will then install it in my Cyclone and see if it works. Heck, I'd
even throw in $10 for your trouble.

We need to get/post the docs for the systemizer. The PerF/X are basically
worthless without the docs.

Let me know more details if you want to do the test :)
--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com <mailto:oberheim%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"acousmatique" <acousmatique@...>
wrote:

>
> This is something I have suspected for a while. I've had a Cyclone

for years which I use

> from time to time. I've wanted to get the other Perf/X boxes but I

usually don't have any

> extra cash for them when I spot good deals. Recently I bought a

slightly-broken

> Systemizer which I'm gradually fixing. These boxes are exactly

identical, controls, PCB,

> except the case color.
>
> Why this makes me so psyched is that we can swap ROMs! No matter

which one of these

> boxes you have, just swap the EPROM and it can be any of the

others! I suggest we start a

> repository so that people can freely get code for any of the other

Perf/X boxes they've

> wanted to try.
>
> Last year I started by ripping and uploading the Cyclone ROM. Once

I get the Systemizer

> running properly I'll up that ROM too. Anybody else want to pitch

in This leaves the

> Navigator, Strummer, Drummer - and maybe Chordinator, if that rare

beast really exists -

> to add to the archives.
>
> I am perfectly happy to help anybody here who has these machines

but no access to

> EPROM tools. If you send another Perf/X to me I'll give you burned

copies of the Cyclone

> and Systemizer firmware to use, and I'll pay return postage. So for

the cost of mailing it to

> me and being without it for a couple of weeks, you'll basically be

getting those other two

> boxes, in their functionality. If you're sincerely interested then

contact me, I might be

> willing to mail a few ROMs out in advance to show that I am on the

level. Easier if this is

> for USA only, otherwise postage becomes more difficult and costly.
>
> This way I figure if you have one Perf/X, you have all of them!

This way we won't need to

> shell out another $100-$200 on ebay for every other unit we want.

Or you can buy a less

> popular unit like the Systemizer or Navigator and load it with

software for the "jammier"

> units and get the same effect for a lesser cost.
>
> Thanks for considering!
> CJ Miller
>