Fairlight-CMI

Hi all,

It occurred to me that since using KMI's CMIOS9 utils we can make images of Series III SCSI hard drives onto the PC, we could possibly share these same drive images using bit torrent or someone's ftp site.  Similar in concept to downloading & sharing a Linux distro dvd image amongst friends.  This way we get drive backups and share voices/samples/sequences fairly easily.

I wonder how much compression can be applied to the CMIOS9 drive image file (e.g. using WinRAR or 7zip) and make them even more "sharing" friendly ?  Anyone done any experiments there to reduce size ?

By the way, there used to be a similar tool called CMI Explorer for windows that a guy Rob on this list was making some years back.  He sent me a beta copy and then I never heard anymore from him.  Did this ever take off ?

thanks

David

Hi David,

I'm the Rob who was working on CMI Explorer - I just rejoined the group after some years of absence. I never finished CMI Explorer, but am getting interested in picking the project back up again. I have some Fairlight disc images I made and as I recall they didn't compress particularly well because most of the data is digital audio (try compressing a .wav file to see what I mean), but your suggestion of creating a library of sounds would be well worth doing - that's one of the reasons I started CMI Explorer.

Cheers,
-Rob

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "David J. Wilson" <jeepcherokee_10@...> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
> 
> It occurred to me that since using KMI's CMIOS9 utils we can make images of Series III SCSI hard drives onto the PC, we could possibly share these same drive images using bit torrent or someone's ftp site.  Similar in concept to downloading & sharing a Linux distro dvd image amongst friends.  This way we get drive backups and share voices/samples/sequences fairly easily.
> 
> I wonder how much compression can be applied to the CMIOS9 drive image file (e.g. using WinRAR or 7zip) and make them even more "sharing" friendly ?  Anyone done any experiments there to reduce size ?
> 
> By the way, there used to be a similar tool called CMI Explorer for windows that a guy Rob on this list was making some years back.  He sent me a beta copy and then I never heard anymore from him.  Did this ever take off ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> David
>