From moon.nbn.com!cyberden!xorcist Sun Oct 11 12:04:36 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.132.30.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sun, 11 Oct 92 12:04 PDT Received: from well.sf.ca.us by nkosi.well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/nkosi-920918-2) id AA15709; Sun, 11 Oct 1992 12:05:38 -0700 Received: by well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/well-921002-1) id AA00606; Sun, 11 Oct 1992 12:03:42 -0700 Received: from cyberden.UUCP by moon.nbn.com (4.1/NBN-16/moon-35) id AA22571; Sun, 11 Oct 92 11:19:15 PDT Received: by cyberden.uucp (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Sun, 11 Oct 92 10:00:49 PDT for reed.edu!eps To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problems From: cyberden!xorcist@moon.nbn.com Comments: The Devil Message-Id: <52oHsB1w165w@cyberden.uucp> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 09:59:39 PDT In-Reply-To: <9210110637.AA18194@sand.sics.bu.oz.au> Organization: Indescribable Creations Stephen Gregory writes: > I was wondering whether anybody out there has come across this problem > ... > > I have just bought a new 44Mb removable hard drive. It's fantastic, > wonderful, cool etc. BUT I have one problem. > Periodically the drive stops loading (usually during a bank load) and > comes back with "Disk Not Responding". So I turn everything off and turn You need to terminate the drive. When you bought your SCSI for your eps, you should of also got a terminator. Mine goes between the EPS SCSI and the cable. It's a DB25/DB25 adapter thingy. Without it, your milage will vary. orcist __________________________________________________________________________ | / |\ | H E \ Y B E R |/ E N [ xorcist@cyberden.uucp ] From fl08.comm.mot.com!schickda Mon Oct 12 06:03:45 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.188.136.100 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 12 Oct 92 06:03 PDT Received: from comm.mot.com ([145.1.3.2]) by pobox.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA13562; Mon, 12 Oct 92 08:04:09 CDT Received: from fl08.comm.mot.com (node_27d3b.comm.mot.com) by comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA09985; Mon, 12 Oct 92 08:07:43 CDT Received: by fl08.comm.mot.com ( 5.52 (84)/5.17) id AA23922; Mon, 12 Oct 92 08:43:17 EDT Message-Id: <9210121243.AA23922@fl08.comm.mot.com> From: schickda@fl08.comm.mot.com (David Schick) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 08:43:13 EDT Subject: Re: Answers to seminar questions. To: eps@reed.edu Helloooooo! > Does it still look boxy like all Ensoniq machines, or have they gone for > a more Korgish type look? > > > > Steve > Australia It's still generally boxy, except for the front sides like I described. It's pretty similar to the EPS, but deeper (front to back). Panel and controller layout is the same. Skipping merrily along, Zoltan Android (schickda@fl08-g.comm.mot.com) ----------------------------------------------------------------- From rsinc.com!keith Wed Oct 14 14:09:14 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.5.156.17 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 14 Oct 92 14:06 PDT Received: by gateway.rsinc.com (rsinc-gateway.920524) Wed, 14 Oct 92 15:07:16 MDT Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 15:07:16 MDT From: Keith R. Crosley Message-Id: <9210142107.AA02475@gateway.rsinc.com> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: I saw the ASR today. ProSound here in Boulder, Colorado just got an ASR demo unit. I saw it today at their "closed door" invitation sale. Looks like a great unit! Too bad they don't yet have the one that I ordered :(. They shipped last Saturday. The one I saw had been shipped UPS 2nd day so it would arrive in time for this special sale... Mine should be here by Saturday. Here's what I saw: A groovy new case with the cool new (yellow) ASR logo on it. The control panel looks rather similar to the EPS 16's, but the track buttons are slightly different (smaller "loaded" and "selected" LEDs). Also new are the two "Audio Track" buttons and peak/clipping indicator LEDs. The case is physically larger than the EPS 16. Also the pitch and mod wheels are the new Ensoniq "chunky" style ones (wider like the ones on the SDs). Didn't get much chance to listen to it but I did scroll thru the effects section. Fifty effects are built in including the original EPS 16 effects. The new effects, ported from the DP/4, are mostly not "multis" like the ones on the 16+, but single effects where each of the three busses has a different level control. Among the effects were: numerous reverbs, pitch shift, pitch shift plus DDL, "fast" pitch shift, de-esser, compressor/limiter, 4 voice chorus, etc. The programming parameters on these were very similar to the ones on the original 16+ -- four variations, plus numerous fine tuning parameters. Scrolling thru the command menus revealed time compression and expansion features (yeah!). Ensoniq rep Michael L. (ack, can't remember his last name now!) was there answering questions about various pieces of Ensoniq gear. We talked a bit about the new sampler. I asked him about the "Audio Track" buttons. According to Michael (and the new documentation), these buttons are used to control the sampling source (whether you're sampling from the inputs and/or the output bus -- you can sample yourself playing or the sequencer -- and whether you're sampling stereo or mono) right now. They sure do have funny names, however, hmmm... I asked if these could be used to sample straight to hard disk when the SCSI port is installed. He said, "Not right now, but that's a very good idea (wink, wink)." He said that Ensoniq is emphasizing what the unit can do *now* rather than selling futures. He did say, however, that there will be more features supported in a future OS release (next year). It seemed pretty obvious to me that direct-to-disk recording *would* be supported some time. Michael wouldn't mention any other features... As it stands, the ASR looks like it fixes most of the problems I had with my EPS 16+: memory expansion via Mac-style SIMMS, flexible resampling, HD disk drive, and time compression/expansion. Now if mine would just arrive... Being without your main keyboard really sucks! I'll let you know more (like, how often does the thing crash) sometime next week. --- Keith From sand.sics.bu.oz.au!s057 Wed Oct 14 17:17:01 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 131.244.1.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 14 Oct 92 17:16 PDT Received: from surf.sics.bu.oz.au by kirk.bu.oz.au using SMTP (5.65b) id AA19836; Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:16:29 +1000 Received: from SAND.SICS.BU.OZ.AU by surf.sics.bu.oz.au using SMTP (5.65b) id AA11539; Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:16:46 -0900 Return-Path: Received: by sand.sics.bu.oz.au (5.57/Ultrix-32-V3.0) id AA11652; Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:19:23 EST From: Stephen Gregory Message-Id: <9210150019.AA11652@sand.sics.bu.oz.au> Subject: Hard Drive Problems To: eps@reed.edu Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:19:22 EST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Thanks to all who replied to my question about my removable hard drive giving errors. I bought a terminator for it but continued to have problems, so after about 5 toll calls around the continent I have had it fixed - to an extent. According to the Electric Factory's tech department (Australian distributors), because I had deleted a file (because I had put it in the wrong directory), the removable cartridge had been fragmented. I found this a bit hard to believe, because I had only shifted the file, not changed it's size. I knew that fragmentation caused the hard drive to slow down, but ccording to the Electric Factory "Once something goes on the drive it must NEVER EVER come off. The drives can't handle fragmentation at all, and will often seek around the disk forever looking for the rest". The guy told me that it was not really meant to do that, but that was that it worked, and tough luck. Well I guess I got it for archiving sounds, but I didn't realise it would be to that extent ... Regards, Steve Gregory Australia From psy.uwa.edu.au!scott Wed Oct 14 20:37:57 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.250.1.21 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 14 Oct 92 20:37 PDT Received: from wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au by munnari.oz.au with SMTP (5.83--+1.3.1+0.50) id AA14700; Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:37:29 +1000 (from scott@psy.uwa.edu.au) Received: by psy.uwa.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27311; Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:35:55 WST Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:35:55 WST From: scott@psy.uwa.edu.au (Scott Fisher) Message-Id: <9210150335.AA27311@psy.uwa.edu.au> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: RE: I say the ASR10 Subject: Re: I saw the ASR today. >Keith writes... > >[stuff deleted] > >Now if mine would just arrive... Being without your main keyboard >really sucks! I'll let you know more (like, how often does the >thing crash) sometime next week. > >--- Keith Yup, if you get it next week it'll be crashing sometime next week :-) I hope Bill hasn't got rid of our friendly "ERROR 144 - REBOOT?" message, I'd be lost without it. I think this may have been asked but....How many instruments can be loaded at once, 8 still? Regards Scott. _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth [32S, 116E]--> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v *** ERROR 144 - REBOOT? is a registered trademark of ENSONIQ Corp *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From moon.nbn.com!cyberden!xorcist Thu Oct 15 00:46:13 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.132.30.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 00:46 PDT Received: from well.sf.ca.us by nkosi.well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/nkosi-920918-2) id AA21334; Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:47:21 -0700 Received: by well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/well-921002-1) id AA04809; Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:45:27 -0700 Received: from cyberden.UUCP by moon.nbn.com (4.1/NBN-16/moon-35) id AA16884; Thu, 15 Oct 92 00:43:52 PDT Received: by cyberden.uucp (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 14 Oct 92 22:18:26 PDT for eps@reed.edu To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Hmmm... the back issues of the digest are not there From: cyberden!xorcist@moon.nbn.com Comments: The Devil Message-Id: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 22:17:50 PDT Organization: Indescribable Creations I've checked the ftp dirs at reed and all the so called back issues of the EPS Digest are no where to be found. Does anyone know where they are and how I can obtain ALL the back issues? orcist __________________________________________________________________________ | / |\ | H E \ Y B E R |/ E N [ xorcist@cyberden.uucp ] From umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!smills Thu Oct 15 02:22:12 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.255.1.3 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:22 PDT Received: from umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (5.64.jnf/920408) on Thu, 15 Oct 92 04:21:58 -0500 id AA00542 with SMTP Received: by umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (5.61.jnf/920629) on Thu, 15 Oct 92 04:21:44 -0500 id AA02494 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:20:42 -0500 (CDT) From: MuffinHead Subject: Re: I saw the ASR today. To: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <9210142107.AA02475@gateway.rsinc.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII So, will the ASR10 have a rack-mount version as well? We drummer don't have a big need for keyboard behind our sets. ;) Muff ___________________________________________________________________________ smills@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu -=<*>=- MuffinHed@aol.com From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Thu Oct 15 03:07:14 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 03:07 PDT Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <01424-0@pat.uio.no>; Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:06:44 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:06:37 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:06:37 +0100 Message-Id: <9210151006.AAfidibus10852@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad Sender: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: backissues of digests/ Re: Hmm.. Cc: moon!cyberden!xorcist@well.sf.ca.us GENERAL INFO: Previous mail to the eps mailig list are kept at: reed.edu The mail archive is there contained in the directory /pub/mail-lists/eps The archive is machine maintained, the postings are stringed together chronologically. A new digest appear now approx every other week. The name of these digests are eps-digest01.Z eps-digest02.Z and so forth until eps-digest35.Z The latest is kep in 'latest' There are machine generated indexes in /pub/mail-lists/eps/indexes The index files are called index.01-09.Z index.10-19.Z index.20-29.Z ======== I have given this info before and have cross checked it anyone see an error? However I don't know whether you have recieved it. ========================================================= Specific info/misinfo: How to get ALL the digests: (Why not aim at getting just ONE first?) A week ago you had to use ftp-mail to get to reed.edu I assume that's still the case. What you do depends upon the mail server you use. The way you set it up may vary depending upon the server. In any case set it up and connect, After that, you give the server a string of ftp commands. So this latter is the same as normal ftp commands. A suggestion is: hey-mail-server--send-the-following-messages-to reed.edu ftp reed.edu ; if this is not implicit ; in the above cd /pub/mail-lists/eps binary get eps-digest??.Z ; the ?? are wildchars. ; I think the mailserver ; will generate a local ; directory and filename ; automatically, and will ; send you the file automatically bye That's it, However it may be that you may have a problem actually getting connected to reed.edu at all. First try getting a directory listing back, to see if your connection works at all. ------------------------------------------ tgf From fl08-g.comm.mot.com!schickda Thu Oct 15 05:17:22 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.188.136.100 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 05:17 PDT Received: from pobox.mot.com ([129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA01318; Thu, 15 Oct 92 07:17:26 CDT Received: from comm.mot.com ([145.1.3.2]) by pobox.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA27927; Thu, 15 Oct 92 07:17:25 CDT Received: from fl08-g.comm.mot.com (node_27d3b.comm.mot.com) by comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA22800; Thu, 15 Oct 92 07:20:54 CDT Received: by fl08-g.comm.mot.com ( 5.52 (84)/5.17) id AA11135; Thu, 15 Oct 92 07:56:13 EDT Message-Id: <9210151156.AA11135@fl08-g.comm.mot.com> From: schickda@fl08-g.comm.mot.com (David Schick) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 07:56:09 EDT Subject: yourself to the pleasures within. To: eps@reed.edu Hello there, boys and girls! just a quickie: > I think this may have been asked but....How many instruments can be loaded at > once, 8 still? > > Regards Scott. 8 instruments may be simultaneously loaded in the ASR10. --------------------------------------------------------------- Zoltan Android. Fighting for *your* right to exist in | time and space. | | schickda@fl08-g.comm.mot.com | --------------------------------------------------------------- From fl08-g.comm.mot.com!schickda Thu Oct 15 08:19:38 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.188.136.100 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:19 PDT Received: from pobox.mot.com ([129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA05245; Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:19:38 CDT Received: from comm.mot.com ([145.1.3.2]) by pobox.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA04379; Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:19:35 CDT Received: from fl08-g.comm.mot.com (node_27d3b.comm.mot.com) by comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA27814; Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:24:34 CDT Received: by fl08-g.comm.mot.com ( 5.52 (84)/5.17) id AA11513; Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:59:42 EDT Message-Id: <9210151459.AA11513@fl08-g.comm.mot.com> From: schickda@fl08-g.comm.mot.com (David Schick) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:59:35 EDT Subject: Re: I saw the ASR today. To: eps@reed.edu Ethmoid! > So, will the ASR10 have a rack-mount version as well? We drummer don't > have a big need for keyboard behind our sets. ;) > > Muff Yes, a rack-mount version will be available in time. Riki Brown, a District Sales Manager 4Ensoniq, said "Santa Claus will deliver the rack version," implying 2me th@ it would bAvailable around Christmas. He didn't want 2talk about it much, so there must still bA few details 2hammer out on the rack. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zoltan Android schickda@fl08-g.comm.mot.com | Bureau of Control | The Sprawl | ---------------------------------------------------------------- From uunet.UU.NET!bristol!arisb Thu Oct 15 08:46:15 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 137.39.1.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:46 PDT Received: from bristol.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET with UUCP (5.61/UUNET-uucp-primary) id AA13144; Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:46:00 -0400 Received: by bristol.UUCP (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04279; Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:11:53 EDT From: bristol!arisb@uunet.UU.NET (Aris Buinevicius) Message-Id: <9210151311.AA04279@bristol.UUCP> Subject: More ASR questions To: eps@reed.edu Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 9:11:53 EDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Sorry if I missed past discussion on this (work has been hectic lately!), but is the new Ensoniq sampler going to be sample-compatible with the EPS-16+, and/or EPS? ie, are all the cool new sounds that Rubber Chicken, et al will be generating be able to be used with the old EPS' (assuming they can fit in memory of course)? Thanks for any info Aris Buinevicius arisb@bristol.com ------------------------------------------------ Bristol Technology Makers of HyperHelp, Wind/U, and XPrinter Bring your Windows applications to Motif without effort! From horde Thu Oct 15 08:51:15 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 127.0.0.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:50 PDT Message-Id: To: Terje Finstad cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: backissues of digests/ Re: Hmm.. In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:06:37 BST. <9210151006.AAfidibus10852@fidibus.uio.no> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:50:57 -0700 From: "Mr. Heiji Horde" In message <9210151006.AAfidibus10852@fidibus.uio.no> you write: >Previous mail to the eps mailig list are kept at: > reed.edu >The mail archive is there contained in the directory > /pub/mail-lists/eps Close...REAL close... Host: ftp.reed.edu Directory: /pub/mailing-lists/eps Note: At the current time, reed.edu and ftp.reed.edu are the same machine. This may change in the future. So please use ftp.reed.edu to go to the "right" place. -Heiji horde@reed.edu From rsinc.com!keith Thu Oct 15 15:43:25 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.5.156.17 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 15:42 PDT Received: by gateway.rsinc.com (rsinc-gateway.920524) Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:43:18 MDT Return-Path: Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:43:18 MDT From: Keith R. Crosley Message-Id: <9210152243.AA02724@gateway.rsinc.com> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: ASR load while play... NOT! In response to some specific questions about the ASR, I stopped by my dealer today, experimented with the demo model and found the following things: 1. The ASR *does not* allow instrument loading from the front panel while the sequencer is playing. Instead you get the friendly "STOP SEQUENCER FIRST" message. However, I suppose that inserting program change commands into the sequence *will* work because: 2. The ASR is bank compatible with the EPS 16+. EPS 16+ banks, even multiple-diskette banks, are read by the ASR just fine -- sequences, effects, and all. My dealer suspects that load while play *might* work once they get the SCSI interface available (i.e., you could load instruments from the SCSI drive while the sequencer plays). Of course, the current ASR OS is only version 1.0 and is essentially identical to EPS 16+ OS version 1.3. --- Keith From nwnexus.wa.com!sounds!brianw Thu Oct 15 17:52:02 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.135.191.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 15 Oct 92 17:51 PDT Received: from sounds.UUCP by nwnexus.wa.com with UUCP id AA16375 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:40:09 -0700 Received: by sounds. (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) id AA02974; Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:54:03 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:54:03 -0700 From: Brian Willoughby Message-Id: <9210152354.AA02974@sounds.> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1) To: Keith R. Crosley Subject: Re: ASR load while play... NOT! Cc: eps@reed.edu | 1. The ASR *does not* allow instrument loading from the | front panel while the sequencer is playing. Instead you | get the friendly "STOP SEQUENCER FIRST" message. However, | I suppose that inserting program change commands into the | sequence *will* work because: | [...] | My dealer suspects that load while play *might* work once they | get the SCSI interface available (i.e., you could load instruments | from the SCSI drive while the sequencer plays). I don't know about the ASR, but the EPS has a 2-channel DMA chip on the board. One channel handles floppy transfers and the other handles the optional SCSI port. Since the EPS allows load while sequencing only upon receipt of a MIDI Program Change (not from the front panel), I would assume that the ASR will as well - independant of whether the data is coming over DMA channel one or two. Your dealer may be exercising "wishful thinking" about features magically appearing once an option is purchased for the unit (s)he wants to sell you. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened. --- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Sound Signal Processing Software and Consulting NeXTmail welcome - NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission From moon.nbn.com!cyberden!xorcist Fri Oct 16 03:32:47 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.132.30.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 16 Oct 92 03:30 PDT Received: from well.sf.ca.us by nkosi.well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/nkosi-920918-2) id AA09969; Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:31:56 -0700 Received: by well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/well-921015-1) id AA13298; Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:30:03 -0700 Received: from cyberden.UUCP by moon.nbn.com (4.1/NBN-16/moon-35) id AA08806; Fri, 16 Oct 92 03:27:57 PDT Received: by cyberden.uucp (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Thu, 15 Oct 92 23:35:10 PDT for eps@reed.edu To: eps@reed.edu Subject: epswrite.exe.z From: cyberden!xorcist@moon.nbn.com Comments: The Devil Message-Id: <1F6PsB1w165w@cyberden.uucp> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 23:34:23 PDT Organization: Indescribable Creations Does this file need to be converted somehow once received on an MS-DOS system? I got it in the mail and it won't run at all and LTAR (a tar extracter on the PC side), pukes... Is there another process neeeded after it's uudecoded? orcist __________________________________________________________________________ | / |\ | H E \ Y B E R |/ E N [ xorcist@cyberden.uucp ] From uservx.plk.af.mil!CONLEY Fri Oct 16 07:04:41 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.238.32.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 16 Oct 92 07:02 PDT Message-Id: Date: 16 Oct 92 07:47:00 MST From: "CONLEY, BOB" Subject: epswrite.exe.Z To: "eps" >Does this file need to be converted somehow once received on an MS-DOS >system? I got it in the mail and it won't run at all and LTAR (a tar >extracter on the PC side), pukes... > >Is there another process neeeded after it's uudecoded? The proper sequence to transfer this file and turn it into a PC executable is the following: 1. Use BINARY mode to FTP the file from nextweek to your machine. Type the\ command binary once you have established the FTP connection to nextweek, then type get epswrite.exe.Z 2. The file has been compressed using the UNIX "compress" program, so you must uncompress it using the UNIX "uncompress" program; tar and uudecode must NOT be used on this file. If you do not have access to a UNIX machine to run "uncompress", then you must get a version of uncompress for the machine which you to have access to. If your only machine is the PC, then you should be able to find a DOS version somewhere on the net. I do not have this program myself, or I would send you a copy. A good place to begin the search would be to use one of the "archie" servers to locate a site which has DOS "uncompress". If you do not know how to use archie, send me an e-mail message with your e-mail address, and I will have the archie output mailed to you. 3. If you uncompress on a machine different than the machine where you want to run epswrite, then you must transfer the file again, and you must again use binary mode in FTP or Kermit, or write a floppy if both machines have a common floppy format they can use. Bob Conley conley@uservx.plk.af.mil From rsinc.com!keith Fri Oct 16 08:12:11 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.5.156.17 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 16 Oct 92 08:11 PDT Received: by gateway.rsinc.com (rsinc-gateway.920524) Fri, 16 Oct 92 09:12:13 MDT Return-Path: Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 09:12:13 MDT From: Keith R. Crosley Message-Id: <9210161512.AA00534@gateway.rsinc.com> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: ASR load while play... NOT! Brian Willoughby writes: >Your dealer may be exercising "wishful thinking" about features magically >appearing once an option >is purchased for the unit (s)he wants to sell you. It wouldn't be the first >time that has happened. Oh please! I happen to have a NEED for the SCSI port, first off (my 16+ had SCSI and I use SyQuest carts instead of time-wasting floppies). And secondly, load while play (from the front panel) would make a LOT more sense at SCSI transfer speeds. Ensoniq is the source of this rumor, it's *not* a figment of my dealer's imagination. I'm sorry that the salespeople you work with are scummy. --- Keith From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Fri Oct 16 08:18:42 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 16 Oct 92 08:18 PDT Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <21698-0@pat.uio.no>; Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:18:18 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:18:14 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:18:14 +0100 Message-Id: <9210161518.AAfidibus16036@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad Sender: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: Q: mac, MAX and EPS Cc: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Is anyone using MAX for anything useful with the EPS? Non-useful uses are also of interest. tgf From vitalink.com!Erik.Murrey Fri Oct 16 10:39:05 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 132.240.17.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:38 PDT Received: from yamaha.NOC.Vitalink.COM by mail-relay.Vitalink.COM with SMTP id AA28818 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 16 Oct 1992 10:30:12 -0700 Received: from localhost by yamaha.NOC.Vitalink.COM (5.67-V2.1-X500e/V2.1-X500e) id AA19928; Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:38:38 -0700 Message-Id: <9210161738.AA19928@yamaha.NOC.Vitalink.COM> To: "Keith R. Crosley" Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: ASR load while play... NOT! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 92 09:12:13 MDT." <9210161512.AA00534@gateway.rsinc.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:38:38 -0700 From: Erik.Murrey@vitalink.com Wait a minute.... The EPS-16+ can load while playing and is fairly reliable. There was talk of load while sequencing, but this promise was recinded(sp?). It turns out that the SCSI and (I guess also) the floppy controller place a fairly high load on the EPS's CPU. Or at least it interrupts at a higher priority than the system hardware timer which drives the sequencer. The long and short of it is that the EPS cannot maintain an even tempo while loading files from the disk. My guess is that the ASR will have the same problems unless the SCSI and Floppy controller have an independent CPU or a more advanced interrupt controller. Just my $.02 ... Erik Erik Murrey Vitalink Communications Corporation ejm@Vitalink.com From iear.arts.rpi.edu!rose Fri Oct 16 11:33:41 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.113.1.7 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 16 Oct 92 11:33 PDT Received: from iear.arts.rpi.edu by rpi.edu (4.1/SMHUB35); id AA20650; Fri, 16 Oct 92 14:33:21 EDT for eps@reed.edu Received: by iear.arts.rpi.edu (3.2/HUB10); id AA21548; Fri, 16 Oct 92 14:29:49 EDT for eps@reed.edu From: Mike Rose Message-Id: <9210161829.AA21548@iear.arts.rpi.edu> Subject: mac, MAX and EPS To: eps@reed.edu Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 14:29:46 EDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] I have a student who is writing an EPS front panel emulator in MAX as an independant research project. I just gave her the MAX 2.2 update, and she's very happy. mikerose studio engineer, iear studios rensselaer polytechnic institute rose@iear.arts.rpi.edu From ecn.purdue.edu!davisonj Fri Oct 16 13:12:18 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.46.128.59 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 16 Oct 92 13:12 PDT Received: by en.ecn.purdue.edu (5.65/1.32jrs) id AA14942; Fri, 16 Oct 92 15:12:06 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 15:12:06 -0500 From: davisonj@ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison) Message-Id: <9210162012.AA14942@en.ecn.purdue.edu> To: eps@reed.edu, keith@rsinc.com Subject: Re: ASR load while play... NOT! Brian Willoughby writes: >Your dealer may be exercising "wishful thinking" about features magically >appearing once an option >is purchased for the unit (s)he wants to sell you. It wouldn't be the first >time that has happened. Sure isn't; remember the effusive EPS review in _Electronic_Musician_ in which the reviewer reported that the Ensoniq people said that the EPS was capable of recording directly to hard disk, but that they didn't want to emphasize that too much "just yet"? OK, so they never promised anything, but... -- John Davison davisonj@ecn.purdue.edu From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Sun Oct 18 12:16:11 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sun, 18 Oct 92 12:12 PDT Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <24727-0@pat.uio.no>; Sun, 18 Oct 1992 20:11:34 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Sun, 18 Oct 1992 20:11:29 +0100 Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1992 20:11:29 +0100 Message-Id: <9210181911.AAfidibus25189@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad Sender: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: Re: mac, MAX and EPS Cc: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Mike Rose wrote: >I have a student who is writing an EPS front panel emulator in MAX as >an independant research project. I just gave her the MAX 2.2 update, and >she's very happy. > Well, that sounds both useful and fun. If she need something like beta testers sometime along the work, I and a few others would be very happy to have the privilage ;) Will it be for the Classic and/or for the 16+? If she is on the eps mailing list, which she should be, It would be nice if she would tell us a little about it sometime. This is the second student project I've heard about involving EPS, Of coarse I cannot say that's great because I'm getting very jalous and full of envy when I hear aboat it. :-) ----- Also a few others answered me privately, telling they were using MAX, but not specifically for the EPS. So there is interest in the MAX and none have a front panel. Terje From millie.loc.gov!jeff Sun Oct 18 18:46:57 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 140.147.2.12 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sun, 18 Oct 92 18:46 PDT Received: from millie.loc.gov by rs1.loc.gov (AIX 1.3/4.03) id AA08446; Sun, 18 Oct 92 21:42:06 -0400 Received: by millie.millie (4.1/SMI-4.1-jjm2) id AA21945; Sun, 18 Oct 92 21:42:50 EDT Date: Sun, 18 Oct 92 21:42:50 EDT From: jeff@millie.loc.gov (Jeff Mallory) Message-Id: <9210190142.AA21945@millie.millie> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: T J Finstad.. this is for you Terje, My mail to you bounces back from t.j.finstad@fys.uio.no Would you send me the address I should use to reach you? Thanks Jeff jeff@millie.loc.gov From cup.portal.com!fredness Mon Oct 19 20:52:29 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.83.245.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 19 Oct 92 20:50 PDT Return-Path: Received: by nova.unix.portal.com (5.65b/4.1 1.163) id AA23967; Mon, 19 Oct 92 20:50:34 -0700 Received: by portal.unix.portal.com (1.351) id AA04857; Mon, 19 Oct 92 20:50:32 -0700 Received: by hobo.corp.portal.com (4.1/4.0.3 1.21) id AA05481; Mon, 19 Oct 92 20:50:31 PDT To: eps@reed.edu From: fredness@cup.portal.com Subject: would like to join Lines: 8 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 20:50:30 PDT Message-Id: <9210192050.1.5450@cup.portal.com> X-Origin: The Portal System (TM) Greetings, I am new to internet, but have been using ENSONIQ gear for years. Currently I'm involved with ENSONIQ in the design of their next generation sampler/keyboard. I would appreciate being included in this mail thread. -fredness From kurango.cit.gu.edu.au!richard Tue Oct 20 17:27:39 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 132.234.5.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Tue, 20 Oct 92 17:26 PDT Received: by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au id AA15978 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Wed, 21 Oct 1992 10:29:36 +1000 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 10:29:36 +1000 From: richard hagen Message-Id: <199210210029.AA15978@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: K2000 Q and Bug Update Not really an Ensoniq question - just curiousity! Has anyone had a chance to play with a K2000 with the sampling option? Keep those bugs rolling in. BTW: I played with the bug I reported a couple of weeks ago - the one where you could get a crash if you tried to create a new instrument after creating a large (~4000 block) instrument - and found that I could easily replicate it *under certain circumstances*. These circumstances involved having a particular bank load being done earlier in the session. I think the memory is getting fragmented and that the memory compaction that should be done isn't. I'll do some more experiments and check this - I wish we had a memory monitor like the ones for <>. richard From ads.com!pdel Wed Oct 21 03:27:39 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.229.30.16 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 21 Oct 92 03:26 PDT Received: from deimos.ads.com by ads.com (5.65+/1.34v1.3) id AA12466; Wed, 21 Oct 92 03:28:09 -0700 From: pdel@ads.com (Peter Delevoryas) Received: by deimos.ads.com (5.65+/4.7) id AA18364; Wed, 21 Oct 92 03:28:08 -0700 Message-Id: <9210211028.AA18364@deimos.ads.com> Subject: DART Utilities To: eps@reed.edu Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 3:28:07 PDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Hey you guys (Mac users specifically), I was doing some archiving with DART, the utility for the Mac with which one can archive Roland sample disks, and said to my self, "self, why don't you try it on one o' them EPS disks and see if it works." "Good idea, I said to my self" So I put the EPS disk into the Mac drive, and let DART archive it to my HD. It worked. So the next step was to see if I could get it back from the HD to the floppy. So I formatted a disk in the EPS, then put it in the Mac. DART copied it to disk, I put it in the EPS, and loaded the instrument. Hm, I said, DART has a checkbox that says "Format Disk". I put an unformatted floppy in and wrote the file again to floppy. I put it in the EPS and it recognized the filename. When I picked the instrument button to load it to, the display then said "Disk Not formatted" So it looks like DART can archive EPS disks, but can't write 'em back to floppy unless the floppy is formatted. I can live with that. Is this already common knowledge, or did I make the most amazing discovery since the wall wart. PD From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Wed Oct 21 04:36:11 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 21 Oct 92 04:35 PDT Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <04997-0@pat.uio.no>; Wed, 21 Oct 1992 12:34:34 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Wed, 21 Oct 1992 12:34:30 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 12:34:30 +0100 Message-Id: <9210211134.AAfidibus08530@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad Sender: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: Re: DART Utilities Cc: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Peter DART does NOT archive EPS disks! ( It just don't give you an error message ) Terje From ads.com!pdel Wed Oct 21 13:11:30 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.229.30.16 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 21 Oct 92 13:11 PDT Received: from bert.ads.com by ads.com (5.65+/1.34v1.3) id AA14555; Wed, 21 Oct 92 13:13:03 -0700 From: pdel@ads.com (Peter Delevoryas) Received: by bert.ads.com (5.65+/4.7) id AA03294; Wed, 21 Oct 92 13:13:02 -0700 Message-Id: <9210212013.AA03294@bert.ads.com> Subject: DART for EPS = no To: eps@reed.edu Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 13:13:00 PDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Re: my previous post about DART - Terje sent me info about it. It will NOT work; it only appears to. I didn't take the extra step and see if what was on the floppy really transferred. On the bright side, Dr. Finstad has supplied his own programs which work on the Mac and can translate EPS files back and forth. PD From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Thu Oct 22 16:26:36 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 92 16:24 PDT Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <08851-0@pat.uio.no>; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 00:24:21 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 00:24:17 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 00:24:17 +0100 Message-Id: <9210222324.AAfidibus14586@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad Sender: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: flute2ann.gkh.Z Cc: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Ann, this flute is for you. I uploaded an EPS classic disk: Title : flute2ann.gkh.Z size : 438 kB Content: Instrument Size Comment FLUTE MULTI 1015 Blks "Normal (=symphonic) flute, multismpl. I thought this had a certain charm - there are tonal inconsistencies across the instrument range : just like real flutes there are subtone aliasing: just like real samplers :-) I had some piccoloes on top which I will put on the next disk with another flute. ----- Does anyone have a guerrilja(sp?) flute sample(s) to share? I'm thinking of the playing style Roland Kirk popularized: grunts and multistops(may be not the right word - but it's like pronouncing a norwegian "rrrrr" whith the tongue while blowing ) May be I could grunt myself? Sure I can, but will it sound like what I whant if I just mix it with a normal flute? Can any on the eps mailing list double on flute with their nose? Terje From ads.com!pdel Thu Oct 22 16:50:17 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.229.30.16 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 92 16:50 PDT Received: from bert.ads.com by ads.com (5.65+/1.34v1.3) id AA19474; Thu, 22 Oct 92 16:51:47 -0700 From: pdel@ads.com (Peter Delevoryas) Received: by bert.ads.com (5.65+/4.7) id AA04030; Thu, 22 Oct 92 16:51:41 -0700 Message-Id: <9210222351.AA04030@bert.ads.com> Subject: Re: flute2ann.gkh.Z To: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no (Terje Finstad) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 16:51:38 PDT Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <9210222324.AAfidibus14586@fidibus.uio.no>; from "Terje Finstad" at Oct 23, 92 12:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > Can any on the eps mailing list double on flute with their nose? > > Terje That does it - Terje for President! From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Thu Oct 22 19:16:47 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 92 19:16 PDT Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <11832-0@pat.uio.no>; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 03:15:53 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 03:15:46 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 03:15:46 +0100 Message-Id: <9210230215.AAfidibus15101@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad Sender: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: Re: flute2ann.gkh.Z Cc: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no >> Can any on the eps mailing list double on flute with their nose? >> Terje > That does it - Terje for President! You folks must be hard pressed at the moment Well, I don't know all that much about beeing president of the United States, but it cannot be that hard? So, yes, I take the job! I need a few more votes I guess, so I need to think about a campaign. I have understood that one need a promotional demo recording. I have heard the simulations ( so they are called ) with Bush and a lady which "is obviously not his wife". ( their existence are well known to mac people - maybe not PC people? ) So that's what I need. and then I need some quite different samples. Maybe just sample the lady and replace Bush? Nah, not good enough. I'm sure there are many good campaign ideas among the eps list people that could secure any clown the precidency though. Terje I asked for guerilja flutes before . They were also called Bush flutes - From ads.com!pdel Thu Oct 22 20:03:56 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.229.30.16 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 92 20:03 PDT Received: from bert.ads.com by ads.com (5.65+/1.34v1.3) id AA20076; Thu, 22 Oct 92 20:05:37 -0700 From: pdel@ads.com (Peter Delevoryas) Received: by bert.ads.com (5.65+/4.7) id AA04087; Thu, 22 Oct 92 20:05:35 -0700 Message-Id: <9210230305.AA04087@bert.ads.com> Subject: Any EPS 'fans' out there ? To: eps@reed.edu Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 20:05:33 PDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Hey, anyone out there put a fan in their EPS 16+ (or other) keyboard? I stuck one in tonight with super-glue - it's on the far right side. But it doesn't seem to be cooling the board with the heat sink attached - or maybe it is, but the heat sink is still frying-pan warm (hot). The fan is cranking the air out, it's a 2/12" guy with a 14V WALL WART (there's that word again). Do I need more air inlets ? I'm thinking about drilling some holes in each side, would that help ? Don't worry, I'll make all the holes spell "16+" so it really looks cool. It's easy, just get into a CAD or drawing program and create a template, tape to side and have a drill-fest. If I ruin the keyboard, I'll just get an ASR-10. So, any experienced people please let me know what you did. thanks, PD From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Thu Oct 22 21:05:52 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 92 21:05 PDT Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <13067-0@pat.uio.no>; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 05:05:29 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 05:05:25 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 05:05:25 +0100 Message-Id: <9210230405.AAfidibus15353@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad Sender: t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: flute2eve.gkh.Z I uploaded an EPS classic disk to the incoming Title : flute2eve.gkh.Z size : 263 kB Content: Instrument Size Comment PICCOLO 407 Blks picolo flute, can be used with ann's flute. ANDERSEN FLUTE 141 Blks There was/is a band called Jethro Tull. They have/had a flute player called Andersen. They say he played flute with only one leg or something. I wonder how he did it. OPTIMIST 25 Blks Chiff synth FOR BAS 24 Blks Percussive synth bass. --------------------------------------------------------- tgf From psy.uwa.edu.au!scott Thu Oct 22 22:35:01 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.250.1.21 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 92 22:34 PDT Received: from wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au by munnari.oz.au with SMTP (5.83--+1.3.1+0.50) id AA07531; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 15:34:20 +1000 (from scott@psy.uwa.edu.au) Received: by psy.uwa.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01807; Fri, 23 Oct 92 13:32:49 WST Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 13:32:49 WST From: scott@psy.uwa.edu.au (Scott Fisher) Message-Id: <9210230532.AA01807@psy.uwa.edu.au> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: (beta) OS 1.17 Avaliable! Greetings EPS-ers, WARNING! WARNING! beta-test operating system approaching! I have uploaded an UNDERGROUND release of the EPS-16Plus OS-1.17 that loads files from floppies while the sequencer is running to... File's = OS-117.Z (Unix-compressed, GKH file) OS-117.txt (This file) Location = nextweek.reed.edu, it will either be in /pub/incoming or /pub/samples if it gets shifted. ...This was the OS that Ensoniq cancelled, hence I thought people who brought the EPS with this function in mind may like to have it (even though it is slightly brain-damaged :-) As such it will not get any official customer support or any of that as this is an unofficial, black-market OS ;-) Everyone got that?...if you are passing it on to a non-eps@reed type person make painfully sure the recipient is aware of this fact. That said it is probably inevitable that a letter turn up in Transoniq Hacker complaining that there is something wrong with their EPS and it turns out they are using this OS1.17 :-) Let's just try to minimize these occurences. That said, the OS does actually work with floppies and many hard disks. It works for many musical applications. It does not work if you own a fast hard disk AND you are picky about sequencer timing aberrations. I'd stress, once again that you can't hold Ensoniq responsible for this OS as they withdrew it from the update list, that's why we made the jump from 1.1 straight to OS 1.3. Here's how, and note this "I THINK" it works. The following docco is just my idea based on trobbing, tweaking and fiddling with my EPS... Doc--------cut here------- 1.17 appears different from 1.3 in that under the [COMMAND][SEQUENCE] page there is a "SELECT LOADABLE INST" option added. Let me take you through it... [COMAND][SEQ] scroll "SELECT LOADABLE INST" [ENTER/YES] "- - - - - - - -" then appears. Each blank stands for a instrument/track on the sequencer. Before you start you must load up the first batch of sounds for the sequence and then decide which ones will be loadable. This stage locks in just how much memory will be dedicated to loadable instruments. Example... INST = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 drum horn vox toilet fx1 fx2 synth bass blocks 500 200 400 200 40 40 300 200 So if you (on the select loadable instrument page) pick ... "1 - - 4 - - - 8" you will have set instruments 1, 4 and 8 to be loadable. Setting these is exactly the same as selecting layers on the [EDIT][INST] page, in that placing your cursor over the space and hitting [YES] or [^] will cause the number to appear. In the above example you will have also (by convention) allocated 900 blocks of RAM to loadable instruments. That means that not only 1, 4 and 8 may be load-while play but 900 blocks will be dedicated for load-while play between them. Any ratio of blocks per instrument can be use at any time. Just another example to clear things up...if you selected instruments 1,2,3,4 as "loadable" you would have (by default) also allocated 1300 blocks to be used for loadable instruments and no more. Make sense now? Yup, so depending on the size of the instrument/s you select to be loadable, that's your memory avaliable for load while play. It appears that you can have 1 or 8 instruments in the load while play category. [ENTER/YES] "Shuffling data" Now we are ready to go...record your sequence make your song, whatever. When you identify the place in the sequence where you want a sound to load you simply go into REC/OVERDUB mode and go through the motions of loading the sound you want, the display then shows "RECORDING..." but it does not appear to load the instrument at that point, when you stop the sequence and then start it again before or after saying KEEP NEW, the EPS will load the sound you selected to load at the moment in the sequence you did it. You can do this as many times as you want (as far as I could see). You can also insert "load" commands from the EVENT-EDITOR. I think you can take the "loadable" sounds from as many floppies as you want or grab, em off the HD. I didn't see any other features in 1.17 besides the load-while-play function, it is possible that I missed them tho :-) Oh, yes 1.17 appeared to have the macros disabled, don't know if that is significant. Regards Scott. _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth --> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v *** ERROR 144 - REBOOT? is a registered trademark of ENSONIQ Corp *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From psy.uwa.edu.au!scott Thu Oct 22 22:38:57 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 128.250.1.21 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 22 Oct 92 22:38 PDT Received: from wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au by munnari.oz.au with SMTP (5.83--+1.3.1+0.50) id AA07756; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 15:38:18 +1000 (from scott@psy.uwa.edu.au) Received: by psy.uwa.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01832; Fri, 23 Oct 92 13:36:47 WST Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 13:36:47 WST From: scott@psy.uwa.edu.au (Scott Fisher) Message-Id: <9210230536.AA01832@psy.uwa.edu.au> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Netxweek.reed.edu When I was uploading OS1.17 I noticed that the "incoming" directory was full of stuff and had not been cleaned up for ages. Is anyone in charge of nextweek.reed.edu? I realize they are likely to be volunteers who don't even own an EPS....just looks like some house-keeping is in order... what do you recon gang? Regards Scott. _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth [32S, 116E]--> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v *** ERROR 144 - REBOOT? is a registered trademark of ENSONIQ Corp *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From horde Fri Oct 23 09:42:56 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 127.0.0.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 23 Oct 92 09:40 PDT Message-Id: To: scott@psy.uwa.edu.au (Scott Fisher) cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Netxweek.reed.edu In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 23 Oct 92 13:36:47 +0700. <9210230536.AA01832@psy.uwa.edu.au> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 09:40:41 -0700 From: "Mr. Heiji Horde" In message <9210230536.AA01832@psy.uwa.edu.au> you write: >When I was uploading OS1.17 I noticed that the "incoming" directory was >full of stuff and had not been cleaned up for ages. Is anyone in charge >of nextweek.reed.edu? I realize they are likely to be volunteers who >don't even own an EPS....just looks like some house-keeping is in order... >what do you recon gang? Actually, its more like _A_ volunteer who also serves as the sysadmin of the reed.edu domain (and true I don't own an EPS). Anyhow, I did clean some things in there up. Don't have any idea if things are in the right places or not. Right now I'll look for suggestions for how to reorganize everything in there. Send your ideas on this to: eps-ftp@reed.edu Also, when you upload to nextweek, please send mail to there as well saying what you uploaded and where you think it belongs. Also available now... nextweek.reed.edu:/pub/INDEX A list of all the files on the EPS sample site and where they reside. ftp.reed.edu:/pub/mailing-lists/eps/indexes/index.30-36.Z Index of the subjects from eps digests #30-36 -Heiji (horde@reed.edu) Systems Programmer, Reed College From moon.nbn.com!cyberden!xorcist Fri Oct 23 22:28:26 1992 Return-Path: Received: from 192.132.30.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 23 Oct 92 22:28 PDT Received: from well.sf.ca.us by nkosi.well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/nkosi-920918-2) id AA19158; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 22:29:25 -0700 Received: by well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/well-921015-1) id AA11007; Fri, 23 Oct 1992 22:27:30 -0700 Received: from cyberden.UUCP by moon.nbn.com (4.1/NBN-16/MOON-38) id AA24555; Fri, 23 Oct 92 22:25:48 PDT Received: by cyberden.uucp (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Fri, 23 Oct 92 18:58:43 PST for eps@reed.edu To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: results of ftpmail request 719881611.6625 [-] From: cyberden!xorcist@moon.nbn.com Comments: The Devil Message-Id: <2Ro5sB1w165w@cyberden.uucp> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 19:58:24 PDT In-Reply-To: <9210240228.AA28545@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com> Organization: Indescribable Creations ftpmail service on uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com writes: > Orig message-id: > Orig subject: - > Orig from: cyberden!xorcist@moon.nbn.com > Orig date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 14:11:49 PDT > > --- connecting to nextweek.reed.edu... > Connecting to nextweek.reed.edu > 220 nextweek FTP server (Version 6.15 Fri Jul 31 11:10:28 PDT 1992) ready. > --- logging in as user=anonymous password=ftpmail/cyberden!xorcist@moon.nbn.c > ---> USER anonymous > 331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password. > ---> PASS > 230-Welcome, archive user! This is an experimental FTP server. If have any > 230-unusual problems, please report them via e-mail to ftp@reed.edu > 230-If you do have problems, please try using a dash (-) as the first charact > 230-of your password -- this will turn off the continuation messages that may > 230-be confusing your ftp client. > 230- > 230-*** Welcome to the EPS ftp site (nextweek.reed.edu/134.10.2.20) *** > 230-There are 40 megs free on this disk. Go wild!!! > 230- > 230-PLEASE ONLY DOWNLOAD DURING OFF-HOURS. 5pm to 9am PST. > 230- > 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. > ---> TYPE A > 200 Type set to A. > --- changing working directory to /pub/mailing-lists/eps... > ---> CWD /pub/mailing-lists/eps > 550 /pub/mailing-lists/eps: No such file or directory. > !!! can't chdir > ---> (end of ftpmail session) Ok... once again... there is no such dir as above... __________________________________________________________________________ | / |\ | H E \ Y B E R |/ E N [ xorcist@cyberden.uucp ]