Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:03:48 -0800
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From: Joe Bryan <joe@chromatic.com>
Subject: [WS] sequencer card / processor type
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From: loren jan wilson <ljwilson@midway.uchicago.edu>

Subject: [WS] lame sales questions/brown-nosing

...when i brought it home and popped it in my EX, an extra menu came up on the last button called "DEMO". When I pressed that, a screen appeared that said "demo screen" and there were 5 different demo songs that i could play back.

This is the original demo sequence card for the wavestation that was shipped to dealers. There wasn't enough room in ram/rom for this so we had to put it in a card. It actually contains a sequencer program and the sequence data. Don't get too worked up about it thought, the sequencer is extremely primitive and doesn't have very good resolution (24 or 48 cpq if I remember right).

Also, someone asked what type of processor was used in the WS. It was an Hitachi H16, a very "unique" Japanese rip-off of the 68K. For thems that cares, the H16 was the precursor to the M16 that came out of the Japanese MITI (ministry of information and technology - a.k.a. "Japan Inc.") "Tron" project, a government sponsored project to push Japanese processor technology forward and eliminate their dependency on American chips. At the micro-controller level, the best they could come up with was an orthogonal instruction set version of the 68K: not very creative...

-Joe