Sampler resource
Music Samplers are a strange bunch of machines -- the people developing them never seem to be on much of a budget for new technology so they seem to use hardware that is ten or more years behind any other computer technology. Even though these devices are essentially a CPU with an OS and a usually small crappy display in a box.
The more popular lines of machines are still using SCSI hard drives but they are using the SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 interfaces and are not able to recognize more than 2GB of hard disk space (think FAT-16 filesystems for a box made today). Some of the more innovative systems will recognize up to a whopping nine GB but is still saddled with the SCSI interfaces (there are three new synths out there that have USB interfaces!!!)
I ran into a link to this company:
SCSIforSamplers.com
I have not done business with them but am about to and they came highly regarded.
Now don't get me started abut
memory for samplers -- anyone got any SIMMs they aren't using... (kidding -- both of my Kurzweil's are maxed out but still...)
Posted by DaveH at October 11, 2004 8:35 PM