Synergy/Slave 32 Software
CP/M Emulators
- Joan Riff’s Z80MU version 5.2b
(Z80MU52B.ZIP): Joel Chamberlain got this to
talk to his Synergy using Windows 98, although he says it works better under
MS-DOS 7. It will at least start up under Windows XP,
but I can’t say anything more
than that. This is shareware, but it’s an old program, so I don’t know how
current the address given in the software is. If you do start using it
regularly to talk to your Synergy, you should hunt down the author and pay
the shareware fee. I would get confirmation about the author’s current
whereabouts first though, since it is a rather old program…
PC ZIP Files
Here’s some *.zip files that Mark Glinsky kindly provided.
- Synergy2.zip: Some documentation files.
They’re ASCII, but there’s strange control characters that make them look
weird. Dave Manley e-mailed me to say that this is because some of the
characters have their most significant bit set, and clearing the MSB clears
up the problem. He offered the following perl script to do that (thanks
Dave!).
while () {
$clean = $_ & "177" x length($_);
print $clean;
}
- Synergy3.zip: Voice data for Carlos 1-4,
L1-13, and VCARTS 1-6. They’re here in *.crt files, which correspond to
what appears in Synergy8.zip, but they’re also here as *.bin and *.hex
files. I noticed the *.crt files are all of varying length, but the *.bin files
and the *.hex length are all of consistent length, so I suspect they’re
for burning to EPROMS? (???) - Synergy4.zip: Some voice data. These are
*.crt files, but they seem to have names of particular instruments,
like Piano1.crt, Clavnet2.crt. I’m not really sure what’s here. There’s
also a Nasty1.crt, how curious… - Synergy5.zip: MuLib, a MS-DOS program for
reading and loading Synergy and Slave 32 voice data. Unfortunately, this
program has no editing features; for that you need SYNHCS. It looks like
MuLogix was going to make some editing software for the PC, but they went
bust before they could do that. Note the program is quite old, it may be
difficult to run on a modern PC. Also note that like SYNCHS,
this program talks to
the Synergy over RS-232, not MIDI. - Synergy6.zip: Z-80 assembly files for the voice
editing software called
SYNHCS (Synergy Host Control Software). It runs on a Kaypro CP/M machine.
The compiled .com files are here too (there’s Synhcs.com and Synterm.com),
but I’m not sure how to get them over into Kaypro disk format. You might
be able to run them on some sort of CP/M emulation software. - Synergy7.zip: The internal synergy operating
system. A whole bunch of *.z80 assembly files, along with an assembler
and linker, but who knows what they run on. - Synergy8.zip: Voice data, both as
individual voices (*.vce format) and cartridges (*.crt), along with
documentation (*.doc, which predates MS Word – these are just text files).
Includes the Internal voices, VCARTS 1-6, and Carlos 1-4. I think the .crt
files correspond to the files in the Synergy3.zip file, and in fact, running
a unix ‘diff’ on a few files indicates that is the case. This archive is
interesting in that it has the voices also broken out as individual voice
files.
Last modified 6/03/09
Maintained by Aaron Lanterman
lanterma@ece.gatech.edu