At 12:58 PM 11/28/2012, you wrote:
>Thanks for that info. It's disappointing...
Why though? I suppose you are thinking that it gives you access to all types of USB drive methods (SSD, large capacity, etc.) but it's doubtful the S-760 would even recognize such devices. The thought that a SCSI->USB would provide interference between the two is asking a lot.
The S-760 remains in the "other" millennium. =)
>I have a micropolis drive model 3243AV, (inside an enclosure) and it seems to be having some problems. Do I need to replace this internal drive with the exact same drive or do I have options that you know of?
It doesn't have to be the same. Find a fixed SCSI drive on eBay, stay within 4GB or so, taht way you can be fairly sure you aren't getting "beyond" the S-760. Then just replace the drive.
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User
At 12:12 PM 11/28/2012, you wrote:
>I actually have the S-760 going to a Glyph box that contains a 270 MB syquest drive and a CD player. the connectors on the Glyph box are 50 pin SCSI while the back of the S-760 has the 25 pin connector.
Great
>I was looking at the item below and wondering whether that would work. Any idea?
When you say "would work", are you talking about attaching a USB drive to your S-760? No, this does the reverse, connects a SCSI Drive to a USB-outfitted computer.
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User
So I finally have a window of time to use... I replaced the belt, and
the drive appears to be working (I get proper motion), but I'm getting
"Illegal QD" errors when I go through the diagnostic routines, or if I
just put the disk in the drive.
These are NOT factory QDs. They're smith-coronas which I believe
ought to work. But they're blank.
So the question is: How do I format this disk? Can I just save to it once?
Or is this a thing where I've gotten out of alignment, and if it were
in alignment, it wouldn't give me an error, even on a blank disk?
That's really the question: do I have an alignment problem or a
formatting problem? If it's alignment, I can go twiddle with it. if
it's formatting, I think it's possibly more complicated...
Thanks
Pete
Hello group,
Thanks for the inquiries and purchases that have happened so far. Please see the list of my remaining cd-roms I have for sale. The average price paid for the cd-roms I've sold so far has been approx $25-40, depending on the number of discs. I am willing to consider any reasonable offers. I would love to sell large blocks of these, or the entire collection, if possible. Thanks for your attention.
ROLAND S-7XX FORMAT
Denny Jaeger Master Violin Library DJCS Inc
Smoov Grooves East West
Symphonic Adventures Audio Adventures, Inc
Steve Stevens Guitar Sample Collection East West
Quantum Leap Guitar & Bass Quantum Leap
Scoring Tools Vol 1 East West
The Ultimate Strings Collection East West
Double Platinum Rock Piano Ilio
Trance Fusion Ilio
Synclavier Sampler Library Percussion+ World & Orchestral Ilio
Fingerstyles Acoustic Melodies & Patterns Ilio
Orchestral Winds Vol 1 (Project Series) Roland
Burning Grooves Spectrasonics / Eric Persing
Liquid Grooves Spectrasonics / Eric Persing
Gigapack (2 discs) "includes Classical Choir" Sound + Vision / Best Service
Gigapack 2 (2 discs) "includes Halleluhjah Choir" Sound + Vision / Best Service
Vocal Planet (4 disc set) Spectrasonics / Eric Persing
Double Platinum Drums Ilio / Power Studios
Funky-ass Loops East West
XX-Large Extreme 1750 Drumloops Best Service
Phat + Funky East West
Fretworks Ilio
Zero-G Funk Guitar Zero-G
Supreme Beats Percussion Library Vol 1 African / Contemporary Spectrasonics / Bashiri Johnson
Supreme Beats Percussion Library Vol 2 World / Dance Spectrasonics / Bashiri Johnson
New York City Drumworks Sampleheads
New York City Percussionworks Sampleheads
Bashiri johnson's Ethno/Techno (3 disc set) Ilio
Pocket Syndrome Vol 2 Rock Guitar Sampleheads
Classic Drumming Series: Retrofunk Spectrasonics / Eric Persing
Kind Regards,
Marc
Hello, SGroup,
After nearly twenty years in music production, I am retiring from the field (except for select personal projects), and I have accumulated a really huge Roland S-7xx library. Most of the important titles are here. There are over 40 cd-roms, and I am interested in selling them. They've been in storage in my closet all these years, and have their original jewel boxes, inserts, booklets, etc. All discs work great, and are in near perfect condition. Only 2-3 jewel boxes have a broken hinge....those can easily be replaced, of course.
Any interest or input is welcome. If you are interested, I can supply a list of titles. Prices are negotiable. I would like to sell groups of cd-roms, or even the entire library, if possible.
Kind Regards,
Marc
marcwineblog(a)gmail.com
I picked up a busted S-10 for pretty cheap, and I'm trying to recondition it.
I was able to replace a couple of caps and get most functions working.
I can sample and play back, I can use it as a MIDI controller, data
sent to MIDI IN shows up on MIDI THRU... The QD has a melted belt but
I have replacements on the way. Until I get that working I can't get
through the diags far enough to be 100% certain that MIDI IN works all
the way to the CPU....
I was going to see if I could get some of the SysEx samples from the
old archive (thanks folks!) to download via MIDI, but I'm not having a
lot of luck. To start with, the manual doesn't mention hitting ENTER
after selecting one of the 4 SysEx modes. So I found that entirely by
accident. But I'm still having no luck, and I'm hoping maybe someone
here has experience to know what else may be omitted (or overlooked)
in the manual.
Here's my setup: macbook pro, generic USB-MIDI interface, running a
tool called SysEx Librarian. It reads the archives just fine, lets me
view them and the data conforms to the spec. To dump, you select
which MIDI port, and hit "play" and it sends the messages downstream
(blindly).
On the S-10 to prep I select bank, MIDI, confirm that I'm actually on
channel 1 (where the dumps come from) and that Exclusive = On. Then I
hit F1+MIDI, FWD twice to get to "one way sample data receive" (since
I can't do handshaking), and hit ENTER. At this point it says "Wait
for sample data" or some such.
I then hit play on the librarian...but the S-10 screen stays at
Waiting. I've tried hitting ENTER again after sending the data (does
nothing), hitting the bank key again (cancels)....played with a few
other keys but nothing seems to be doing it. I can't help but think
I'm missing something else, and/or that it should say something
when/if it actually starts receiving data. I'm pretty positive I'm
using the right port on my USB MIDI interface, but I tried sending to
the other one just in case, and got the same result.
I'm also a little concerned that the spec mentions a 20ms wait between
frames of SysEx data, and I don't know (not sure how I could tell) if
my librarian is honoring that.
Has anyone done this recently enough to remember if/what magic
incantation is still necessary?
Anyone had any luck running the windows tools in a virtual machine?
That's really my next line of testing. That, and getting the QD drive
working so I can get it past that part of the diags and into the part
where it tests MIDI.
Thanks....
The list didn't like my screen shot attachment, here's the rest of
what I was saying in reply to Alex:
Right, MIDI Channels are commonly referred to as 1 - 16, but in the
data they're 0 - 15, because they're 4 bits. And that does correspond
to the Device ID, or at least I would expect it to, that's the way it
has worked in other MIDI implementations I've worked with.
The byte stream at the head of each of the "chunks" of the data looks
like this (all hexidecimal):
F0 41 00 10 12 02 00 00
That's "SysEx, Roland, Channel 00, S-10, One Way Receive, address
020000 (this is the first chunk, the others increment the address by
0x100 for each chunk)"
That all corresponds to the bits in the manual from section 7 (see
attached screenshot; it's a scan so I can't just cut & paste).
The archive I was referring to is this one:
http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/archive/samples/s10-bmarek/
I've spent a lot of time the last month combing the interwebs for
something like this, and when I found it, it was awesome. I just
have to figure out how to get it into the keyboard, since I don't have
a way to write QD's from my mac or anything else....and I'm really not
up for creating my own interface.
Speaking of which, I did run across someone who recently started
talking about trying to adapt hardware used to make an SD card look
like a floppy drive for this kind of thing in order to emulate the QD.
That would be great if it pans out, but it was in pretty early stages
when I read it....
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-musi…
There was another thread at the HxC forum asking about specs for the
drive, I plan to post the link to the S-10 service manual I have,
which has a lot of those sorts of details (timing etc), hopefully that
will help someone move it along too.... Of course I have to wait
until the forum approves me :-)
Thanks for the suggestions....
Hi everybody,
I have a SYS-333 sequencer package that I am about to post on eBay but I
thought that I should offer it on the list first. The set is complete with
the three disks, the manual, the dongle and the vinyl box. A corner of the
box is cracked but otherwise the package is in good condition. I have no
mean to test it as I don't own an S-330 anymore. 20$ negotiable.
Contact me off-list if you're interested.
Jean-Robert Harvey
