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This is a great little workstation! I've booted it up very recently and it was a joy to just switch the thing on - and it was ready to go - no waiting round for a Windoze or wacky-Maccy operating system to load.
I got my first (I've got 2!) in 1987, which I paid about 80/90 quid for, and it came with the Yammy cartridges for sequencing and patch creation - a nightmare (the sequencer) to use, but I did get one or two plinky-plonky things out of it.
The 2nd I got in '91, which had this 'DMS1' realtime sequencer with it (no manual!) - spent about 2 weeks figuring it out, and churned out loads of stuff between '91 and '95. The DMS cartridge makes all the difference - very easy to use, and with 53 extra voices burned into the cartridge. I did eventually get a manual, and an extra cartridge about a year later (phew!)
OK, only 8 note polyphony, but with a few extra bits and some outboard, you're away! Tape laoding/saving these days may seem painful, but it's the same as jigging around with all the new kit - and the quick reboots help! As mentioned by others, it's a good master or slave sequencer, and there's fun to be had with the little monster!
Friends who had them and sold them have regretted their decisions as the years wear on, as it really is both a great way for making unique sounds, from analogue overdrive and blips/squeeks to some quite convincing string, and the DMS1 sequencing software is a breeze (for MSX) - and I'm gonna carry on using it!
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