Fun with Wersi Instruments

NOVA CD-700 (DX-700) with Golden Gate Plus upgrade. Asking $1800.00 with bench and 2 octave (25) pedal board which detaches and uses a 25-pin cabled connector for interface. Besides the floppy drive that can be formatted 720 KB or 1.44 MB there is 120 MB hard drive for music, styles and sequence storage. This allows up to 512 Styles (Rhythms) or Sequences (arrangements, songs) to be placed in RAM at a time. You may include song text that could be displayed on the Golden Gate screen, if desired. 27 banks can be displayed at the touch of a button and 27 Styles/Sequences for each bank may then be called up for play. In addition to the ROM banks there are RAM banks and User defined banks that may be used and configured as you want to make this a very versatile organ for church, home or club playing. You may also store midi files or put them on a floppy to play them directly from the floppy. Although a 1.44 MB floppy will hold more than 27 midi files, because of the display process, only 27 can be called from the floppy as it is treated as a bank. You may merge multiple midi files, up to the capacity of a floppy, to extend the play capability within the 27-bank limit.
Back to the hard drive. If you add sub-directories, you may fill them with an organ dump for easy recall and then configure different banks for additional Styles/Sequencies then save those as a dump for recall that leaves an almost endless opportunity for your music enjoyment.
There is a WERSI CD-700 English Assembly manual with physical card and electrical diagram, Golden Gate Plus User’s manual. Although there are over 700 only 128 at a time may be programmed to be used with the midi in/out capability. Only 5 voices at a time may be used with any one keyboard. I have not found that to be a limit to music creation since you may include choir, strings or horns as one voice to give exceptional sound. Lower keyboard may be split with cords on left side with different voices. Single finger cording, 3rd, 5th and 7th can be made with a second finger along with minor etc. Even with single finger mode selected playing 3 fingers in the cord area switches back to manual cording until less than 3 are used. There are 12 drum sets available and more that may be user configured. Six standard percussion sounds are available on the Golden Gate panel i.e. high hat, snare, cymbal etc.
Cabinet is light brown and has a few minor marks that could be dressed up if that is an issue. There is no light for the music rack so if you were to play in a darkened place that would need to be added. All top lights have been replaced except for the 3 over the digital display for ease of viewing the display.
CD 700 was available approximately 1992-3 and the Golden Gate Plus upgrade installed in 1997 which renewed the electronics except for power supplies and some sound cards. Shipping or pickup is the responsibility of buyer.
NOVA CD-700 (DX-700) with Golden Gate Plus upgrade. Asking $1800.00 with bench and 2 octave (25) pedal board which detaches and uses a 25-pin cabled connector for interface. Besides the floppy drive that can be formatted 720 KB or 1.44 MB there is 120 MB hard drive for music, styles and sequence storage. This allows up to 512 Styles (Rhythms) or Sequences (arrangements, songs) to be placed in RAM at a time. You may include song text that could be displayed on the Golden Gate screen, if desired. 27 banks can be displayed at the touch of a button and 27 Styles/Sequences for each bank may then be called up for play. In addition to the ROM banks there are RAM banks and User defined banks that may be used and configured as you want to make this a very versatile organ for church, home or club playing. You may also store midi files or put them on a floppy to play them directly from the floppy. Although a 1.44 MB floppy will hold more than 27 midi files, because of the display process, only 27 can be called from the floppy as it is treated as a bank. You may merge multiple midi files, up to the capacity of a floppy, to extend the play capability within the 27-bank limit.
Back to the hard drive. If you add sub-directories, you may fill them with an organ dump for easy recall and then configure different banks for additional Styles/Sequencies then save those as a dump for recall that leaves an almost endless opportunity for your music enjoyment.
There is a WERSI CD-700 English Assembly manual with physical card and electrical diagram plus Golden Gate User’s manual. Although there are over 700 only 128 at a time may be programmed to be used with the midi in/out capability. Only 5 voices at a time may be used with any one keyboard. I have not found that to be a limit to music creation since you may include choir, strings or horns as one voice to give exceptional sound. Lower keyboard may be split with cords on left side with different voices. Single finger cording, 3rd, 5th and 7th can be made with a second finger along with minor etc. Even with single finger mode selected playing 3 fingers in the cord area switches back to manual cording until less than 3 are used. There are 12 drum sets available and more that may be user configured. Six standard percussion sounds are available on the Golden Gate panel i.e. high hat, snare, cymbal etc.
Cabinet is light brown and has a few minor marks that could be dressed up if that is an issue. There is no light for the music rack so if you were to play in a darkened place that would need to be added. All the top lights have been replaced except for the 3 over the digital display for ease of viewing the display.
CD 700 was available approximately 1992-3 and the Golden Gate Plus upgrade installed in 1997 which renewed the electronics except for power supplies and some sound cards.
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