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beskippy

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May 30, 2007 23:27

Today I took the day off of work (vacation) because I had two doctor's appointments that were scheduled annoyingly enough that I would spend about 3 hours at work, 1.5 hours at the doctor's office, and 3 hours driving back-and-forth across town. "Screw that," said I ( Read more... )

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epi_lj May 31 2007, 12:48:43 UTC

If I'm reading your description of this SCSI-IDE-CF adapter thing right, it may not work in that E-Mu's samplers use an arcane filesystem. There are tools for the PC to read it, but I haven't checked on them in ages to see what they run under.

But that's awesome! It's a good unit, and I've always liked their strings.

I might be able to hook you up with some RAM.

beskippy May 31 2007, 19:43:21 UTC

Hopefully the adapter thing will work. At the very least, even if I can't transfer it to and from my PC (via sneakernet), at least it would be more reliable than Zip drives. I believe that the concept is to use a SCSI-to-IDE adapter internally, and then an IDE-to-CF adapter - to get some nice solid-state storage inside the sampler ( ... )

epi_lj May 31 2007, 23:22:54 UTC

Unfortunately, I think all the RAM that I could scrounge up might be ECC, because it's from a server, but I'll check it out and let you know. :)

I remember when I had my EMAX II, a friend brought his drum machine over to show me and we agreed that it was pretty cool. Then I sampled it all and it sounded way better on the EMAX II. He was kind of pissed.

beskippy May 31 2007, 23:41:36 UTC

Hahaha, awesome story about the drum machine! I imagine it will be a somewhat similar event here. The DR-202 is a nice little groovebox; it has a bunch of bass and drum samples (which can be pitched, stretched, EQed, filtered), and a set of nice knobs that can be used to control a very steppy lowpass filter, and a little effects unit (good for delays and flanges, and that's about it). The ESI-2000 , once those basic waveforms are in there, will have far better filters, can apply new envelopes, compress the samples, and so on. Not to mention that I should be able to generate quite a few drum sounds in software.

I assumed that all our IT would've had was ECC, but I only found a few. Likewise if you have any obsolete 50-pin SCSI crap, let me know... ;-)