CX5M Album from 1985 - The NDO Takes Off!

By NetNomad

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27-05-2023, 06:06

There's a website called Discogs that's kind of like an ebay for music, but it's also a database that tells you all about different physical releases of music in surprisingly good detail. If you search for "CX5M," more comes up than you might expect. One album in particular, "The NDO Takes Off!" by The New Digital Orchestra caught my eye. it had this note on the page:

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The digital music data on track 14 (for the YAMAHA CX5M Music Computer) should be saved to cassette tape for loading purposes. (Consult the CX5M owner's manual for instructions on loading music data into the Music Composer software program). The manufacturers assume no responsibility for loss of data for any reason, and suggest saving data to tape when the album is first played, using a fresh stylus, and ensuring that turntable speed is accurately adjusted.

Sadly there were no recordings online. I told a friend of mine who rips vinyl on youtube about it and the next day he had bought a copy and recorded the whole thing that you can listen to here. I never quite got the hang of loading data via the cassette port but I did load the data track into openMSX and it had YRM-101 FM Music Composer files for three of the songs on it. B1-3 on the playlist is recordings of those, and D1-3 are the data files (with Stop In The Name of Love as a stopgap for the sake of your eardrums). Figured some of you might get a kick out of this :)

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By Metalion

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27-05-2023, 08:57

I'm on Discogs almost daily ... Caught the vinyl bug a few months ago (I did not have a turntable in the 80s, believe or not), and I must say those vinyl records are something else. Not for the sound quality (CDs are so much better), but rather for the object itself. The physical contact they provide with the media, the implication needed to listen to them (dusting them off, switching sides, ...), and the big jackets give me a lot a pleasure that I simply do not have with a CD.

I'm quite surprised to see an era vinyl record related to the MSX ! (I know about latest ones).
Thank you very much for this information, and those rips.

By imulilla

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27-05-2023, 15:38

could he upload a copy of the track in wav format to convert to TSX? on youtube it has compression

By dproldan

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27-05-2023, 18:27

Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to do the coversion.

By Manuel

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28-05-2023, 00:12

Can someone explain step by step how to load the data on a CX5M? That program is quite not easy to understand for a beginner...

By NetNomad

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28-05-2023, 08:08

Here's a zip with the data in wav for all three. To load it you wanna type in cload= at the command line and then once it's done loading you wanna type play. something that trips me up every time is that if you enter a command in all caps, nothing happens but nothing tells you you're wrong either

By Manuel

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28-05-2023, 18:37

I typed cload, and got notes. Then typed play, but nothing happens. Oh wait, it works, but it's just very soft Smile Thanks for this!

I tried to find CX5M music data before, but it seems almost all of it was lost.

By imulilla

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03-06-2023, 07:34

Thank you very much for the wavs, I have amplified them and I have been able to convert them to TSX but I have not been able to try them yet because I have not been able to start a CX5M in openmsx, I will tell you