| Roland S-10 sampling keyboard with hard case ...
Joshua sent along some pictures that were stipped by the mailing list.
Have a look here:
http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/forsale/
if you're interested.
Cheers!
John
(sgroup guy)
Hello all,
I thought it should be possible to duplicate my sample CD-ROMs in
Roland S-760 format using the Apple OSX disk utility. But when I try
to create a disk image file from any of my CD-ROMs the disk utility
says "read/write error" after reading the CD-ROM. It does work with a
CD-ROM in Akai S-1000 format though.
I remember I could duplicate those CD-ROMs back in the OS 9 days,
using Adaptec Toast. But my OS9 computer and its CD burner quit
working a long time ago.
Any other possibilities, preferrably using an Apple computer?
Ingo
At 06:58 AM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
> > > There are rumors of sucessful internal SCSI ZIP drives, etc
> being installed to replace the floppy drive on the S-760.
> > >
> > > Is this true? Are there details anywhere of the installation?
> > ... but why?... if your floppy isn't working just make the
> default boot drive the Zip attached to the SCSi buss.
>For the simple reason of keeping everything compact in a one rack
>unit. Who wants jaz drives and cd-rom drives and cables and power
>supplies everywhere?
I hadn't heard these rumors but since I developed some Internal Kits
of other samplers I thought I'd look inside a S-760.
2 problems:
There is no direct way (unless you are a ace solderer and really know
what you are doing) to get the SCSI buss, since the output DB-25 is
soldered directly to the mainboard. You'd either have to desolder and
solder the whole jack, or you could make a custom ribbon cable to
route back into the S-760 (ugly, but possible).
The other issue is more severe. A internal ZipDrive is 6.5 inches
deep. Roland used a fairly short-form floppy drive that is 4.5 inches
deep. The power supply is right behind the floppy drive, so there is
no room for the 6.5" deep ZipDrive, unless you relocated the power
supply. That may be possible if you don't have the OP-1 video/digital
stuff; if you do, it is not possible even if you are squishing things
in there. You wind up short about .75 inch no matter how you squeeze it.
There better solution to me is to just get a 1 rack space shelf, or a
1-2 rack space rack drive case. Since the S-760 is rack anyway, the
only advantage of an Internal is the saving of at least 1 rack space.
I sell Internal ZipKits for the Ensoniq ASR-10, and that is a huge
advantage because one can take their ASR-10 around for gigs and truly
fulfill what the writer didn't want: cables, and power supplies everywhere.
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User
For the simple reason of keeping everything compact in a one rack unit. Who wants jaz drives and cd-rom drives and cables and power supplies everywhere?
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:29:46 +0000
> From: chaseman(a)socal.rr.com
> To: k2500x(a)hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [sgroup] Internal SCSI device on the S-760?
>
> ... but why?... if your floppy isn't working just make the default boot drive the Zip attached to the SCSi buss.
> Gary
>
> ---- k2500x _ <k2500x(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There are rumors of sucessful internal SCSI ZIP drives, etc being installed to replace the floppy drive on the S-760.
> >
> > Is this true? Are there details anywhere of the installation?
> >
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There are rumors of sucessful internal SCSI ZIP drives, etc being installed to replace the floppy drive on the S-760.
Is this true? Are there details anywhere of the installation?
Thanks,
Ken
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Dear All,
Would anyone be so kind to tell me where can i get the 3 system disk images
for the S330. I have already read and browsed through the SGroup Archive (
http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/archive/os/S330 ), but the only image
I find there is the one for Mac OS and I'm running Windows). Your help is
greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Andrew
Hi
Nice to see lots of activity here lately, been so quiet for so long.
Note for anybody downloading those old Roland samples from the SGroup
archive;
http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/archive/samples/Roland/
As far as I can remember, there were couple of disks which didn't work. I
have the working ones, but no time to go thru every single one to verify. So
if somebody figures out which are those broken ones, I can sent the correct
images. I actually got the Roland Sound Library L-CD1 disk, years after I
had already downloaded he same stuff from the site.
Most of the Roland sample collection is available at
http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/archive/samples/Roland/
Jim Norman (then at Roland) arranged to send me floppy disks
for me to put online.
If anyone has any other samples they wish to share, I would
be more than happy to put them on the sgroup web site for
all to share.
Cheers!
John
| From: "David A. Roth" <david(a)roth-music.com>
|
| I've not looked for this in a while, but I thought at one time Roland had an
| FTP web site of their samples available for the public to download that was
| in the SDISK format. Is that still the case or has that changed. If it is
| still available and Roland simply doesn't want to host it, perhaps we could
| find hosting with their permission elsewhere with our list owner?
| David A. Roth
Hi guys,
Thank you for all the advice and comments. I really appreciated them. I'd never take money away from anybody who has worked hard on creating patches or sample libraries. If you have some s-50 samples you've created and you'd like to sell them to me, that's great! If you guys can point me to how to get s-50 samples that others have made, I'd be happy to pay for them too.
I talked to two different departments at Roland, keyboard, and customer service this morning. Their feeling on these old stock samples is to just go ahead and trade away. They're not making any money off the old technology anymore.
Denny
Hi!
I have an S-760 with a bad internal LCD panel (not the backlight, the
LCD itself) - No information displays to the LCD at all.
Can someone tell me the exact series of steps (button presses)
to put the unit back into the mode that allows the use of an external
COMPOSITE monitor?
I'll be doing it blindly, so I'll need something that reads like:
"Press the 'down' button 3 times, then press the 'inc' button ".
I've tried a lot of combinations, to no avail. The problem is that this
menu is NOT shown in ANY of the available documentation, so I'm stuck,
and I can't use my sampler.
If someone could reply to this, I'd be very appreciative. It should only
take 30 seconds or so.
My S-760 has become a glorified paperweight because of this problem. I
REALLY need someone to help out!
Thanks in advance!