4 May
2008
4 May
'08
11:10 p.m.
Hello, everybody! Great to see some traffic on this excellent list,
dedicated to a great (if somewhat dated) technology.
I've backed up lots of my s-disk images which I'll gladly make available to
anyone who's interested. As a matter of fact, one very kind list member
sent me a CD of some of his backups in exchange for my backups, but I never
finished my own backups and I've since forgot who sent me the disk! :(
Very big apologies to whomever it was - please let me know and I'll correct
the situation immediately.
If anyone is interested this would make a good excuse for me to start again
to complete backing up my disks to sdisk images and put those on a CD.
Oh, and I also have a very large collection of blank 720KB floppy disks for
sale, if anyone is interested. They are very good quality - they came from
the software company where I used to work, and in all the years I've worked
with them (since the late '80s) I think I've only had one or two fail on me.
Let me know if anyone is interested in that.
Jesse
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[mailto:sgroup-bounces+jsegovia=mindspring.com@sgroup.ca] On Behalf Of
dennis barton
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:24 PM
To: David A. Roth; sgroup(a)sgroup.ca
Subject: Re: [sgroup] Any S-news out there?
I also have the Roland fioppies. If we are planning to archive these,
shouldn't we all work together to not duplicate work.
Or has this been done already for the Roland floppies?
I've found many of my old disks are now unreadable....
At 5/4/2008 01:13 PM, David A. Roth wrote:
Hi Colin and everyone!
Nice to see some activity on this list too.
I have many disks for my S330 and have given thought to archive them.
I was either going to use the S-Mac and/or 'dd' command on Linux to
create an image of each floppy as a directory, and then burn the
whole thing to CD-ROM. Of course, I would want to have the samples
exacted too since there is no telling if any sort of format from the
Roland sampler library would be supported. It seems a shame to have
to lose the set-ups for the samples and patches themselves by going
to another format whatever that might be. But at the very least,
preserving the raw samples is possible.
Yes, there might be better samples available now for certain things,
but those you created yourself or edited it would be good to keep
them. Hard to believe that hundreds of those floppy disks could be
stored on a single CD-ROM now for less than the price of what I paid
for a single 3.5 floppy disk. :-)
Loading them into Mach 5 would also be a good idea as well!
David A. Roth
david(a)roth-music.com
On May 4, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Colin Shapiro wrote:
|_e_/ Dennis Barton <db(a)skylab2000.com>
) skylab2000
~\/\ Brainforest Productions, Los Angeles
/ http://skylab2000.com
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Hi folks,
There hasn't been any action on this group for months so I thought
I'd get something going....
I hardly use my S550 anymore but I have literally hundreds of
floppy disks of sounds. It seems a shame for all of these to not be
used anymore. This is really just laziness and ease of use - I work
with Logic Pro 8 and tend to use their EXS24 sampler exclusively.
I have the old S-Mac set of utilities for reading and writing S550
disks and sometimes use them to just lift sounds off the floppies,
for import into EXS24. This works okay for very simple things like
drum samples and hits.
I also use CDXtract and sometimes Translator to convert S760 disks
and these work well. I know it's possible to do a convert load of
S550 disks into S760, then convert via CDXtract to EXS24, but this
is is long process. To add to this, my S760 has suddenly become
sick and says I only have 1.2 MB RAM - I actually have 32MB. (But
that's another problem....)
Has anyone come across new (or old) utilities for bringing S550
sample disks into the 21st century? Something to read and convert
these precious old treasures.....
Regards - Colin
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