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Art Sgx 2000 Express

• Thread starter JBPhoto
• Start appointment Dec 2, 2012

• #1

Anyone have experience with one of these? I picked i upward along with the X-15 foot controller. It works great and sounds fantastic. My master business organisation is trying to find some way to edit the patches and upload new patches to it with a Mac. The only matter I've found online so far is PC (win xp) only... if i have to, i'll go an old laptop simply i'd rather not.... ok, become...

• #3

It'south a damn shame A.R.T. is no longer making the kind of stuff they used to make.

• #four

FWIW - Keep in listen that most (if non all) of the software from that era is 16-flake, and Will Not install on a 64-bit organization like Win7 or viii.

If you have XP, yous should be OK, but other than that yous will take to run it in a 32-bit VM. That may cause midi connection issues....

PS: Even so have one sitting in my studio rack at home... the X-15 is in information technology'south box in a closet. At the time information technology was killer... and EXPENSIVE!

• #6

i still have two Art SGE Mk two's, nifty in the day, but not so great now (unless y'all like 80's hair metal distortions)

• #vii

I still have my T-ii. Great effects. Terrible to plan.

A guy in our jam band has a SGX it sounds TERRIBLE. I don't think it's the SGX

• #8

I have an one-time brochure from Fine art that came with the SGE Mach 2 - it said 'software updateable: never becomes obsolete'...this was the early 90s, I am guessing. I don't remember they ever came out with any updates. And yes, it sounded terrible, even for the time.

• #nine

I used to have an Fine art SGE. It broke and I sent information technology into ART for repair (no audio, and no display). Instead of fixing information technology they sent me a make new SGX Nitro. Talk about client service! That's similar sending in a broken AxeFx and instead of getting it repaired Cliff sent yous an AxeFx II instead.

The only disappointment was the lack of "Clown Vomit" graphics on the Nitro.

Scott, the official term is non "pinkish splatter" only rather "Clown Vomit"

I still have my X-11. I have a little celeron PC about the size of a half rack space that I plan on turning into a "MIDI" brain (via USB MIDI) running a stripped down WinXP, and controlling it with the Ten-11. That manner I can apply it to exercise things similar open up & shut programs, go forward & backwards in a browser, or tab between fields, launch specific programs, etc., and then assign it daw functions such as play, record, stop, solo, mute, etc. so I can have more hands-costless performance of a DAW. Yous can do and then by getting a MIDI to keystroke converter (Bome'southward I think? I'd have to look it up), and and so some hotekey software for having it launch apps, etc.

Non terribly fond of my old SGX with the exception of the dandy (for the twenty-four hour period) digital delay & pitch options. And I retrieve the LCD is dead likewise, IIRC.

• #10

Mt T-two or whatever it is yet works perfectly. I tin't become it to work with my 11R at all. I think the eff loop in the 11R is expressionless. Nothing works in information technology at all.

• #11

I even so have my T-ii. Great effects. Terrible to program.

A guy in our jam band has a SGX information technology sounds TERRIBLE. I don't retrieve it'southward the SGX

heh, exbandmate had ane and some really bad tones.
I'm sure it could be made to sound amend, but some people aren't expert at programming FX.

dank

Consummate Beatles Fan

• #12

That was my rig of option in the early 'ninety's. Straight into a Fender Evil Twin. Used if for years and loved information technology.

• #13

I take one. Updated the chip. Share patches. Power it a Mesa 50 50. Information technology'southward engineering was beyond it'due south time. I withal have a support website that I wrote when HTML was the only editor I had. I have links to quite a few friends. The ping pong filibuster is still amazing. It's power is tops. I have recorded with it several times. It has XLR stereo outs and i/iv inch outs. I would put it against a line 6 and xi rack. Information technology has and then many parameters that are programable that information technology is unreal.

• #14

Hello, Vic:

Didn't know you had one of these. I accept had one for a long time, and kept it considering: i) the resale is and has been then low; 2) I got information technology for pretty inexpensive; 3) the analog preamp is useful in complex rig (and has a prissy eq department); and four) I'm notorious lazy near selling things.

What's the story on this chip upgrade?

Bob from the former BT days

• #15

Cheers guys... I decided not to mess with a pc and trying to program it that manner. I'll likely sell the SGX 2000 Limited (mine is the newest one with decent graphics and not pigment splatters) with the Ten-fifteen and the custom 25' dual midi plus ability snake I fabricated for information technology and just put the money into my pedal board. I just picked it up to play with, simply it doesn't really have the sound I'm looking for. I volition say, it's much quieter than the older SGX 2000 (not express) version. Just not my taste in tones.

• #16

I have an old brochure from Art that came with the SGE Mach 2 - it said 'software updateable: never becomes obsolete'...this was the early 90s, I am guessing. I don't think they e'er came out with any updates. And yes, it sounded terrible, even for the time.

They told a giant FIB!

• #18

At the time they had an updated chipset you could install, a couple EEPROMS.
I suppose it COULD still be updated if someone wanted to rewrite new code.
Merely all electronics eventually go obsolete!

• #xix

I had one for virtually 6 years...the best processor there was in the mid ninety's!

• #xx

The earlier chips were actually for headphone usage. The later chips lent themselves more to be played alive. The forte of this thing was for recording. Two XLR outs, ii quarter inch jacks out, dual loops. Lots of ability to dispense output, input, and texture the sound to the nth degree.

Art does not make the chip upgrades anymore (which is the way the upgraded the software and varied the tones or frequencies of the processor). The chips did make a difference. Tubes in the preamp not so much. There was a signal sent through the tubes to supposedly warm of the sound, just no transformers to ability the tubes. And so, the tubes never run hot and will probably last quite some time.

Y'all can find people who can provided the upgraded chips on ebay. It's an EPROM. Make sure if you have simply the SGX or the Limited version. If you buy an EPROM for the SGX (only version) it won't fit. Piece of cake to change yourself. Gently pry the chip with a pocket-sized flat caput screwdrive or if y'all are fortunate to take a friend that repairs computers he might have a tool made to pull the chip. Then gently push the new one in, making sure are the legs are in the socket.

Hi, Vic:

Didn't know you had one of these. I accept had one for a long time, and kept it because: ane) the resale is and has been and then low; 2) I got it for pretty cheap; 3) the analog preamp is useful in complex rig (and has a nice eq section); and 4) I'm notorious lazy about selling things.

What's the story on this chip upgrade?

Bob from the old BT days

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