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Author: bb01 on December 24 2007 Viewed 1680 times. 5 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Hi, another blog.
I'm wondering if there are any users here that know secret apps that turn legacy hardware into something
.more useful
.more convenient
.more compatible
I'm curious about samplers specifically. Yes, the ghost of scsi past has descended upon me once more and he's a bggring blightr to get rid of.
Ill probb have to feed him an overdosis of pudding to get him on his way. (god Im dredding the food)
Care to share them with a first time explorer venturing into the world of doping up old hardware?
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12/24/07
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bb01
I'm talking about apps that take upon them the organisation and communication of the hardware sampler.
There's ak.sys for akai samplers, b.zone for yamaha,
Zuonics ZoeOS, e-remote and eos-link for emu.
Things that let hardware sampler behave more like a software sampler.
12/24/07
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Roshi
You mean like typhoon for the tx16w?
12/24/07
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12/24/07
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i seen stuff like that, but i don' read russian and the sites and program are in it. you seem to know enough about the topic. goto the sites where you heard of those and follow links till you get to an archive. i imagine big companies don't want mods fro their equipment and probally work hard to get rid of sites offering them
12/24/07
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I'am (kinda) looking into this very subject ATM too ... cos I want to buy Seanshea's ESI32.
I've been looking at getting an SCSI card for my computer and a HD for the ESI32....
after doing a little reading I figure you can 'chain' the 3 devices like this - ESI32 > HD > PC/scsi ... so that data can be sent from the PC to the HD and loaded to the ESI32 and vice versa.... edited on the computer and sent back to the ESI HD etc etc
this can be done from recycle, soundforge and wavelab ... which is really handy!!
ahhh, ok ....I just read a bit about that eos-link thing. Sounds cool!!
what I don't really get is the fact that it is a representation of the samplers front panel... surely the point/convenience of having all the functions in software form is that you don't have to do all the 'menu diving' and can load/edit stuff with less button presses .... but if its a representation of the real thing you are clicking the same amount of times.... only on a mouse instead.
i dont think it supports esi32 actually 
here is some useful emu/scsi linkage in case anyone is interested.
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12/24/07
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Btw soft i just wanted to emtion out in the public that the ESI-32 i have doesn't have the scsi option installed.
As for programs..
I recall that back in the days when i had just two mac se's going in tandem the great utility was Alchemy. Here's a demo
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Alchemy could conect scsi and midi dump wise with all the good samplers. Emax, S1000,3000,ect k2000, s760, and i recall using it to dump samples from Turbosynth to a FZ-1 that i salvaged from an abandoned music store. It had the classic FZ bug..broken floppy drive.
Turbosynth is like an eight-bit Reaktor for the mac. holy crap i think i just found the demo!
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hmmmm i wonder what OS this uses? 6.8? The demo is from 1998 so maybe 8.0
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darnit Im always late to my own party
roshi - thanks! hadnt heard of that one actually
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+1 turbosynth
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atum said: "i seen stuff like that, but i don' read russian and the sites and program are in it. you seem to know enough about the topic. goto the sites where you heard of those and follow links till you get to an archive. "
I know some, but I want more I tells ya.
Now to speak thruthly - its really not a walk in the park to find these. Most interesting ones I found when I wasnt actually searching them.
atum said: "i imagine big companies don't want mods fro their equipment and probally work hard to get rid of sites offering them"
don't know about that - Emu isnt worried about hardware anymore except interfaces and keyboards.
Yamaha is probably cool about their old equipment having a cult following (do they?)
Akai has a cult following, at least until the boys in suits decide to pester the next generation of customers.
12/24/07
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soft said: "after doing a little reading I figure you can 'chain' the 3 devices like this - ESI32 > HD > PC/scsi ... so that data can be sent from the PC to the HD and loaded to the ESI32 and vice versa.... edited on the computer and sent back to the ESI HD etc etc
this can be done from recycle, soundforge and wavelab ... which is really handy!!
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youre talking about smdi, no? it works well with wavelab
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oh and anyone using akai mpc, would perhaps be interested in a soft called JJ Os
alternative to the standard os the mpc comes with, written by a group of japanese mpc users
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seanshea - yup, i know it doesn't have the scsi ... thats fine 
and speaking of FZ1's .... i have a FZ10m that i plan on using soon .. thankfully the drive still works ... at least it did a few months or ago.
bb01 - yeah im pretty sure its smdi ... apparently its pretty damn cool!
i think kidqaalude has that OS on his mpc .... we had a jam with it the other weekend ... its WICKED!
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