WTB: HKT-03 Sega Katana Soundbox

I'm looking to buy an HKT-03 Sega Katana Soundbox.

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sorry for hijacking ur thread, but what does it do? can't one develop audio with the Devbox? (is it similar in philosophy with the Sophia ?)

 

http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6810

 

This might sound dumb, but can't you develop midi on the PC and then send over the stuff to test on the yamaha sound chip of the devbox? :$

 

Probably, never tried it to be honest.

 

so I guess you didn't win the eBay auction some month ago

 

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Judging by the MIDI i/o on the rear of the development unit it's is possible. I don't have a DC dev kit (yet!) but that is one aspect of it that gives me a boner! Frankly, a midi i/o should mean I can link it directly to my Atari ST (you need an ST with minimum of 1Mb so not a 520St). A 1040, 4080 or a Mega1+ or Falcon would be ideal.

You'd need Steinberg's Cubase V3.0 (lower would be ok, but rather limited and glitchy) plus a sound module of some sort. If you have a Falcon then you can use a later version and have internal HDD plus MIDI and AUDIO. I am assuming the on-board Yamaha sound chip is just GM (General Midi)?

As it has an I/O it provides a loop back facility, which would send midi commands out (obviously as it's called OUT). On the official sound module do you know whether there is MIDI I/O and THRU? If it has thru then you can daisychain the MIDI signal to other midi equipment, otherwise it has to be at the end of a MIDI chain.

The inclusion of an OUT might even mean that whilst playing titles on the unit you are able to get the MIDI track off it in realtime. You could use Steinberg on "record" and actually just lift the MIDI track off the title completely. Not knowing the dev kit, but you may then be able to just change it, mess around with it and dump it back in as an alternative arrangement.

Would love to know, but nobody is willing to just give me a Katana kit :crying:which I find incredible!