Turbosynth 2.21 will run on any 68k mac and up to 7.6.1 if i recall correct.
Works here on 840AV and Powermac 8100.
Never tried sheepshaver, but i just checked that it works on Basilisk II.
Turbosynth 2.0 might be a different case, i have that running on a IICI with soundaccelarator card, but am not sure if it will even run without the correct digidesign hardware.
Matching the right software (DAE extensions, OS versions) to the digidesign hardware can be a bitch. I have been planning to sort it out and write it down for some years now ;). Could be that it runs and specific functions don't work, like the diffuser for example. The good part with version 2.0 is all the samplers that are supported, the bad part is that it won't read patches created with the newer versions, which have more modules.
You could use the 2.2 version and dump to the sampler with Alchemy or one of the sound designer versions. Sound designer universal 1.5 supports many samplers and there is a specific SD version for emax.
Could it be that it only crashes with certain functions?
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Re: [emax] Re: Turbosynth 2.0 + hardware sampler
2015-01-03 by Robin Sutcliffe
Hi drsyncenstein, Francis,
I have Turbosynth 2.0 running now on a Quadra 840AV with 7.5.1. I still get some problems with it but I think I have worked out when it can't play a sound (when it's still calculating numbers from the last one, even though you don't hear it anymore - it tends to be with longer delay sounds) In general it works though. I don't think it's a RAM issue as it has 40mb in the Quadra. I'm going to try and create a lot of modules to see what the RAM limit is. Could always get some more RAM, pretty cheap now!
I know that the diffuser in 2.21 requires the hardware to run for sure. I had thought of using 2.21 to create and using SD to export. That's not such a big workaround. I've not installed 2.21 just yet but don't think there will be an issue with it.
Yeah the hardware thing probably would clear up the issues with 2.0 but as you said, matching is a headache/gamble. Do you know if it will run with Audiomedia cards btw?
Thanks for the advice, happy to have it up and running. Just await my midi interface now . . .
: )
On 3 January 2015 at 20:06, drsyncenstein@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote: