OBERHEIM SYNTH

Hi folks

I'm glad there is interest in this, so I'm setting it up and it will 
be available soon!

Fabio

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, "Nicole Massey" <nyyki@...> wrote:
>
> For the PC side, there are copies of Samplevision lurking around 
that will
> build EII setups and transmit them over MIDI. Don't know if the 
DPX can
> receive other machine dumps via MIDI, but if it can, then you've 
got a
> fairly useful tool there.
> 
> Remember, also, unless you have a program that specifically is 
designed with
> drive overlays, non-PC formats can't be written on post Win2K 
systems. The
> best route here, unless you've picked up something like chicken 
Systems'
> Translator product, is to drop to a DOS session using a Win98 boot 
disk,
> (Available on the web) and work in a DOS environment with command 
line
> stuff. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto:oberheim@yahoogroups.com] 
On Behalf
> Of Les Lambert
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:24 PM
> To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [oberheim] new DPX-1 group...
> 
> If I can do anything to help, as the DPX-1's oldest fan, and 
probably most
> units owned too, I'll gladly put in whatever I can.
> 
> MIDI sample dump gets the samples out OK in many cases, but I 
couldn't
> figure out the mapping etc, so gave up and bought eMax CDROM with 
similar
> samples which can work in the EIIIxp I have, then into the S3000, 
then
> K2000, job done. PC reads and write Kurzweil to floppy, zip, HD 
and CDR.
> K2000 quite cheap now and reliable too. Libraries load into newer 
Kurzweils
> if you can afford them. 
> 
> The mac software Sound Designer did look at EII stuff I think, and 
I did
> collect old macs and have the Sound Designer cards, but never made 
it work.
> I could offer that to someone with more time and enthusiasm. 
There's a mac
> IIci that would be about right for it I think, and all the 
peripheral mon,
> mouse, kbd, CDR drive, and even SoundTools Hardware thrown in. No 
shipping,
> got to be collection from London. Quick, free antique gear! I must 
be mad! 
> No I'm serious it's going.
> 
> Taking a more modern and probably more valid route, Chicken Sytems 
have
> mentioned trying to read EII CDROM files as a possible future area 
of work
> for their Translator P{ro of son of, and although the DPX1 really 
wants to
> see floppies I think, unless someone has tackled and unlocked the 
almost
> unique CDROM interface, we may need Hi-tech help. 
> 
> I also have a large floppy library, mostly of EII 5
> 1/4 floppies and DPX1 copies of these, and as previously 
mentioned, all
> three Universe of Sounds CDROM, and the hardware required, so 
samples do
> exist in Europe already, and almost certainly in the US too.
> It was all we had and good work was done by the best talent.
> 
> Again, good luck.
> ..
> 
> --- somethingkillingyou <somethingkillingyou@...
> <mailto:somethingkillingyou%40yahoo.it> >
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > my DPX-1 is now resurrected, and I was thinking myself to set up 
a 
> > dedicated user group...
> > 
> > the "goals" will be:
> > 
> > -to format disks (with a PC) in ANY format that the
> > DPX-1 plays
> > (except EII which is impossible...)
> > -to write sound disks in those formats -to use midi sample dump 
> > correctly -to share our knowledges and sound banks -OS updates
> > 
> > ...everything we can do with a DPX-1!
> > 
> > the DPX-1 is a powerful tool!
> > with some work, we could unleash the power behind its 
shortcoming...
> > 
> > we just need some extra (working) tool, like right softwares...
> > 
> > 
> > Fabio
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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