Adding a battery to backup SRAM in the Yamaha MU15

There’s nothing more disheartening than working for an entire week on a track and then finding out that your sound module completely forgot all of the settings of the various instruments you carefully altered, layered and assigned a certain effect to (oh right, all the various effects settings are gone as well). Of course, that … Read more

Unlocking Yamaha’s XG System secrets

Yamaha XG

I honestly think that Yamaha XG is one of the most underrated MIDI systems ever made. It got the bad stigma of being just a “better General MIDI” box (isn’t that the case with Roland GS as well?) without people realizing how flexible and powerful this system is. And not just for playing back MIDI … Read more