From ibm4381.onet.edu!gwiner%UTCADMIN Mon Mar 8 06:17:53 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 141.110.8.15 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 06:16 PST Received: from OSCS_MAIL_GATE ([141.110.8.16]) by cognomen.onet.edu (5.59/1.34) id AA02451; Mon, 8 Mar 93 09:13:43 EST Received: by OSCS_MAIL_GATE with Microsoft Mail id <2B9B7EE1@OSCS_MAIL_GATE>; Mon, 08 Mar 93 09:14:09 EST From: gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu To: eps@reed.edu Subject: EPS Classic OpSys 2.49 Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 09:13:00 EST Message-Id: <2B9B7EE1@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Encoding: 14 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Does anyone have a list of bugs for this version? I've been running it for a few months now, and haven't come across any....yet ;) Maybe Ensoniq finally got it right? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= j a c k i n , b a b y: g r e g o r y n a t i o n o f t e f l o n s o u l s =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= my opinions do not neccesarily reflect the views of my employer From ibm4381.onet.edu!gwiner%UTCADMIN Mon Mar 8 06:23:15 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 141.110.8.15 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 06:22 PST Received: from OSCS_MAIL_GATE ([141.110.8.16]) by cognomen.onet.edu (5.59/1.34) id AA02472; Mon, 8 Mar 93 09:19:48 EST Received: by OSCS_MAIL_GATE with Microsoft Mail id <2B9B804D@OSCS_MAIL_GATE>; Mon, 08 Mar 93 09:20:13 EST From: gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu To: eps@reed.edu Subject: A pointless question Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 09:19:00 EST Message-Id: <2B9B804D@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Encoding: 8 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 OK all you engineering students out there, I have a trivia(l) question... Does electronic equipment run better hot, warm, or cold? The talk about cooling for the EPS has got me thinking...is room teperature OPTIMUM or if you sat that puppy in a sub-zero freezer, would it work better/worse/same. Just wondering.... gregory From ee.WPI.EDU!wrm Mon Mar 8 06:29:40 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.215.16.20 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 06:29 PST Received: by ee.WPI.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA12951; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 09:29:21 -0500 Received: by friskie.WPI.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14473; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 09:29:19 -0500 Message-Id: <9303081429.AA14473@friskie.WPI.EDU> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: ASR-10 Operating System Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 09:29:19 -0500 From: wrm@ee.WPI.EDU X-Mts: smtp Just a general note: The most recent version of the ASR-10 operating system is now 1.25 Bill From Ensoniq.COM!fred Mon Mar 8 07:07:14 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.126.220.104 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 07:06 PST Received: from ensoniq.UUCP by gvls1.VFL.Paramax.COM (4.1/mls/4.0) id AA21874; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:06:55 EST X-Info: VFL.Paramax.COM is the new name for GVL.Unisys.COM Please change any mailing lists or aliases. Both the old and the new addresses will work for a short time. Received: by ensoniq.Ensoniq.COM (4.1/mls/3.5) id AA11525; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:06:26 EST Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:06:26 EST From: fred@Ensoniq.COM (Fred Shaul) Message-Id: <9303081506.AA11525@ensoniq.Ensoniq.COM> To: eps@reed.edu Help: PD IBM PC programs to capture/send MIDI SYSEX There is a need at ENSONIQ for a simple Public Domain MS-DOS compatible MIDI SYSEX capture/send utility. We are currently experimenting with a version of the PD utility MIDIEX, alas without success. Thanx to the net ... - fred@ensoniq.com fredness@cup.portal.com fredness@bic.com From Ensoniq.COM!fred Mon Mar 8 07:37:53 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.126.220.104 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 07:37 PST Received: from ensoniq.UUCP by gvls1.VFL.Paramax.COM (4.1/mls/4.0) id AA24056; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:37:40 EST X-Info: VFL.Paramax.COM is the new name for GVL.Unisys.COM Please change any mailing lists or aliases. Both the old and the new addresses will work for a short time. Received: by ensoniq.Ensoniq.COM (4.1/mls/3.5) id AA12013; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:36:37 EST Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:36:37 EST From: fred@Ensoniq.COM (Fred Shaul) Message-Id: <9303081536.AA12013@ensoniq.Ensoniq.COM> To: eps@reed.edu > Just a general note: > > The most recent version of the ASR-10 operating system is now 1.25 > As of March the latest ASR-10 OS release is 1.60 and requires 1.50 ROMs. Ask you local ENSONIQ dealer for more information. - fred@ensoniq.com From ee.WPI.EDU!wrm Mon Mar 8 07:38:46 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.215.16.20 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 07:38 PST Received: by ee.WPI.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14155; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:38:29 -0500 Received: by friskie.WPI.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14566; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:38:26 -0500 Message-Id: <9303081538.AA14566@friskie.WPI.EDU> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: A pointless question In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Mar 93 09:19:00 EST." <2B9B804D@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 10:38:26 -0500 From: wrm@ee.WPI.EDU X-Mts: smtp >OK all you engineering students out there, I have a trivia(l) question... >Does electronic equipment run better hot, warm, or cold? Not totally pointless, but for practical purposes as long as no device is operating outside of it's prescribed temperature range you won't notice any difference. Generally, the allowable ambient temperature of a commercial spec component is 0 -> 70 degrees C (military grade is around -55->125 C). Actual die temperature may run MUCH hotter since the package acts as an insulator. The basic idea behind device cooling is to make sure that the ambient environment is cool enough that no individual die can exceed its allowable temperature. Now to the interesting stuff. Devices usually can be run faster as temperature decreases. This does not mean that at cooler product will run faster, it means that, for example, a 33Mhz 486 can be pushed to run 50MHz PROVIDED the die temperature is reduced (don't try this at home :-)). (early 50Mhz 486's had little "refridgerators" mounted on them). Oddly enough, if some devices get too cold, they stop working all together (same goes for too hot, but for different physical reasons). The bottom line is that freezing your EPS won't make it run faster, BUT if you are willing to perform outdoor concerts to the penguins in the Arctic circle a faster EPS could be probably designed without upgrading the components! (just don't use it in Miami!) Bill From ee.WPI.EDU!wrm Mon Mar 8 07:47:34 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.215.16.20 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 07:47 PST Received: by ee.WPI.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14298; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:47:06 -0500 Received: by friskie.WPI.EDU (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14597; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:47:04 -0500 Message-Id: <9303081547.AA14597@friskie.WPI.EDU> To: fred@ensoniq.com (Fred Shaul) Cc: eps@reed.edu, wrm@ee.WPI.EDU In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Mar 93 10:36:37 EST." <9303081536.AA12013@ensoniq.Ensoniq.COM> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 10:47:03 -0500 From: wrm@ee.WPI.EDU X-Mts: smtp >> Just a general note: >> >> The most recent version of the ASR-10 operating system is now 1.25 >> > >As of March the latest ASR-10 OS release is 1.60 and requires 1.50 ROMs. >Ask you local ENSONIQ dealer for more information. > >- fred@ensoniq.com Then why, when I called last week with a Multi-mode record problem, was I told that my version 1.2 was old and that Ensoniq would send 1.25 right out (which I recieved on Saturday, thank you, I think). Can you send me this 1.6 OS/ 1.5 ROM upgrade? In lieu of that who should I talk to to get accurate info??? Bill From natinst.com!radian!jlange Mon Mar 8 08:46:50 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.164.1.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 08:46 PST Received: from radian.UUCP by natinst.com with UUCP id AA02994 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:46:30 -0600 Message-Id: <199303081646.AA02994@natinst.com> Received: by zippy.radian.com (16.8/16.2) id AA03056; Mon, 8 Mar 93 09:58:48 -0600 From: John Lange Subject: Ensoniq's email address? To: eps@reed.edu Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 9:58:47 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30] I was just wondering if anyone knows if Ensoniq has an email address. If they have an email address, what is it? If they don't have an email address, does anyone know any Ensoniq employees that might maintain an external Internet email address? If NO Ensoniq employees have an Internet email address, does anyone know anybody (with an Internet email address) that has a FRIEND working at Ensoniq??? :-) Ka Plaa'? John Lange (jlange@zippy.radian.com) Radian Corp. (512)454-4797 Box 201088 Austin, TX 78720-1088 From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Mon Mar 8 09:07:46 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 09:07 PST Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <24751-0@pat.uio.no>; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 18:06:45 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 18:06:41 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 18:06:41 +0100 Message-Id: <9303081706.AAfidibus15756@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad X-Sender: tgf@fidibus Subject: Re: EPS Classic OpSys 2.49 Gregory wrote: >Does anyone have a list of bugs for this version? I've been running it for >a few months now, and haven't come across any....yet ;) >Maybe Ensoniq finally got it right? > What this mailing list and EPS-Classic OS concerns there is one difference between bugs and banks: The mailing list do not have it's own banker, but it does have it's own buglist keeper. My opinion: Otherwise, bugs and banks (setups for classic) appear to be pretty much the same thing. tgf From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Mon Mar 8 09:11:14 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 09:10 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA22885 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Mon, 8 Mar 1993 12:10:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 12:10:33 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Subject: Re: EPS Classic OpSys 2.49 To: gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <2B9B7EE1@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Message-Id: On Mon, 8 Mar 1993, gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu wrote: > Does anyone have a list of bugs for this version? I've been running it for > a few months now, and haven't come across any....yet ;) > > Maybe Ensoniq finally got it right? On a related note. What is this I hear about a hardware update. I was told on here by someone that you couldn't run OS 2.49 without getting the hardware update if you only had a 1.0 chip. What is this chip? Where can it be found? Who sells the update? I believe it is $39.00. And lastly why would I need it. (187- Mobile Live Techno Vibes) Joe From psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!sol4.cs.psu.edu!mchen Mon Mar 8 10:15:33 1993 Return-Path: <@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu:mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Received: from 130.203.1.6 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:15 PST Received: from sol4.cs.psu.edu ([130.203.2.12]) by psuvax1.cs.psu.edu with SMTP id <292754>; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 13:14:55 -0500 Received: by sol4.cs.psu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00699; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:58:54 EST From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Message-Id: <9303081558.AA00699@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Subject: Bugs in EPS-OS v2.49? To: eps@reed.edu (EPS List) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:58:53 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > Does anyone have a list of bugs for this version? I've been running it for > a few months now, and haven't come across any....yet ;) > > Maybe Ensoniq finally got it right? Well, I don't get the mysterious xx.xx.47 quantize bug, but I still sometimes get strange results. Sometimes it won't let me use clock 0 (from 47 to 1), and sometimes the last note is quantized a clock off (23 instead of 24). But other than that, I haven't had major problems. Except that I get error 137 (I think) a lot if I'm sending pitch-bend info over a sequence, but that might be my board, not the OS. -- Michael Chen | From the depths of our most lucid horrors | | spring our fond hopes and pure desires... | mchen@cs.psu.edu | except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92 | From SEAS.UCLA.EDU!chenc Mon Mar 8 10:43:10 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.97.2.12 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:42 PST Received: by mills.seas.ucla.edu (5.61-AIX-1.2/1.0(UCLA 5.17)) id AA1792761 (for eps@reed.edu, from chenc@SEAS.UCLA.EDU); at Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:42:53 -0800 From: chenc@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Christopher Chen) Message-Id: <9303081842.AA1792761@mills.seas.ucla.edu> Subject: Re: How would one wire? To: eps@reed.edu (EPS mailing list at Reed) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:42:49 PST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > |> Well, what you could do is plug the keyboard out into the computer > |> in. The computer out to your first tx81z's in. The first tx81z's > |> thru to the second tx81z's in. Finally, if your keyboard also > |> makes noise, plug your second tx81z's out to your keyboard's in. > ^^^ > You almost made it. Change this ---------| to thru. Ooops. That's what I meant. Thanks Dave! Chris > ...David Elliott > -- ========================================================================= Christopher Chen UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences chenc@seas.ucla.edu Los Angeles, California 90024 From SEAS.UCLA.EDU!chenc Mon Mar 8 10:55:27 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.97.2.12 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:55 PST Received: by mills.seas.ucla.edu (5.61-AIX-1.2/1.0(UCLA 5.17)) id AA1792821 (for eps@reed.edu, from chenc@SEAS.UCLA.EDU); at Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:55:02 -0800 From: chenc@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Christopher Chen) Message-Id: <9303081855.AA1792821@mills.seas.ucla.edu> Subject: Re: Bugs in EPS-16+-OS v1.3? To: eps@reed.edu (EPS mailing list at Reed) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 10:54:58 PST In-Reply-To: <9303081558.AA00699@sol4.cs.psu.edu>; from "Michael Chen" at Mar 8, 93 10:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > Well, I don't get the mysterious xx.xx.47 quantize bug, but I still sometimes > get strange results. Sometimes it won't let me use clock 0 (from 47 to 1), > and sometimes the last note is quantized a clock off (23 instead of 24). Well, that bug for the EPS-OS 2.49 reminds me of a problem I'm having with the EPS-16+ OS v. 1.3. If I try to modify the timing of an individual note in the sequencer, it will ask me if I'm ready to insert that note at that particular time. So with all the new info set, I say yes and voila! It inserts that note at that time. However, all the values have been redone and merely copied from the original. Sometimes, it's even difficult to change those values, as it won't let me. Moving away from the note after the change and coming back will just show the old info again (pressure, duration, etc.). From ebs330.eb.uah.edu!claassen Mon Mar 8 11:11:10 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 146.229.4.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 11:10 PST Received: by ebs330.eb.uah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13976; Mon, 8 Mar 93 13:04:00 CST Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 13:04:00 CST From: claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu (Arne Claassen (ISE)) Message-Id: <9303081904.AA13976@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: EPS Sequencer weirdness I recall someone talking about their sequencer starting to play at random times a little while back. Did anyone ever give an explanation of this. It happened to me last night, when i had a sequence still in memory and was loading same new instruments to play with. -AFC ---- claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu From AB.WVNET.EDU!WILLIAMS Mon Mar 8 11:41:52 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.71.2.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 11:41 PST Received: from DECNET-MAIL (WILLIAMS@AB) by WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU (PMDF V4.2-9 #042B2) id <01GVKHHJGHAO9I43SJ@WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU>; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 14:41:51 EST Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 14:41:51 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Williams Subject: OS 2.49 for the 13-minus To: eps@reed.edu Message-id: <01GVKHHJIMGI9I43SJ@WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU> X-VMS-To: NET::"eps@reed.edu" X-VMS-Cc: ME MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT OS 2.49 fixed many bugs, especially quantization problems. It also added a couple of features, like the ability to quantize a specific note range -- GREAT for drum tracks, as I can quantize bass drum to 1/8 notes, high hat to 1/16 notes, and the snare drum to 1/4 notes after sloppy real-time entry. Another bug fixed: load-while-playing crashes much less. Ironically, the backup/restore was never finished. This is why it is 2.49 -- it was supposed to be an interim version before the final Classic OS of 2.50. As 2.49 came out a couple of summers ago, this is probably the last release. -Tom Williams Alderson-Broaddus College WILLIAMS@AB.WVNET.EDU From umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!smills Mon Mar 8 12:24:23 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.255.1.3 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 12:24 PST Received: from umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (5.64.jnf/920408) on Mon, 8 Mar 93 14:23:56 -0600 id AA06285 with SMTP Received: by umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (5.61.jnf/920629) on Mon, 8 Mar 93 14:23:20 -0600 id AA27091 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 14:18:00 -0600 (CST) From: MuffinHead Subject: Different Scale Data To: ensoniq-list In-Reply-To: <9303081904.AA13976@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII When working with a sequence, is there a way to scale data gradually from one value to another? I have a drum track; the rhythm fades out as a corp type snare line fades in. I had to scale the data little bits at a time, like bar 1, beat 1 through bar 1, beat 2: 3%; bar 1, beat 3 through bar 1, beat 4: 6%; etc. I wore my thumb out punching buttons. Muff ___________________________________________________________________________ smills@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu -=<*>=- MuffinHed@aol.com From hpgrrd.gr.hp.com!daver Mon Mar 8 13:00:57 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 15.255.152.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 13:00 PST Received: from hpgrrd.gr.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (16.8/15.5+IOS 3.13) id AA08335; Mon, 8 Mar 93 12:59:51 -0800 Received: by hpgrrd.gr.hp.com (16.6/15.5+IOS 3.20) id AA22869; Mon, 8 Mar 93 13:51:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 13:51:55 -0700 From: Dave Ruska Message-Id: <9303082051.AA22869@hpgrrd.gr.hp.com> To: eps@reed.edu, vfx@ucdavis.edu Subject: New Ensoniq Synth/sample player ** New ENSONIQ SYNTH/SAMPLE PLAYER Announced *************************** The SD-1 is replaced by the TS-10. The SD-1 has been obsoleted. All new platform. No upgrades, and no compatability with VFX/SD-1 sounds. Uses an ASR-10 (or newer chip?) set. Over 63 effects algorithms. Looks like the ASR-10 keyboard. High density floppy disk drive. Loads ASR-10/EPS samples into optional sample RAM. 2 or 8 MB D-RAM (uses 1 or 4 MB SIMMS). 6 MB of ROM, 6000 wave combinations (samples). 24 track sequencer (like the SD-1). 30,000 sequencer notes expandable to 100,000. hyperwaves - combine up to 16 waveforms in any order. price: $2495 Thats all I know. daver (daver@hpgrrd.gr.hp.com) From u.washington.edu!palefox Mon Mar 8 18:19:40 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.95.136.13 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 93 18:18 PST Received: by hardy.u.washington.edu (5.65/UW-NDC Revision: 2.22 ) id AA22470; Mon, 8 Mar 93 18:16:59 -0800 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 18:16:59 -0800 From: Dagmar Pepping Message-Id: <9303090216.AA22470@hardy.u.washington.edu> Sender: palefox@hardy.u.washington.edu To: daver@hpgrrd.gr.hp.com, eps@reed.edu, vfx@ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: New Ensoniq Synth/sample player From Ensoniq.COM!fred Tue Mar 9 06:31:12 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.126.220.104 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Tue, 9 Mar 93 06:29 PST Received: from ensoniq.UUCP by gvls1.VFL.Paramax.COM (4.1/mls/4.0) id AA21013; Tue, 9 Mar 93 09:29:40 EST X-Info: VFL.Paramax.COM is the new name for GVL.Unisys.COM Please change any mailing lists or aliases. Both the old and the new addresses will work for a short time. Received: by ensoniq.Ensoniq.COM (4.1/mls/3.5) id AA18857; Tue, 9 Mar 93 09:28:35 EST Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 09:28:35 EST From: fred@Ensoniq.COM (Fred Shaul) Message-Id: <9303091428.AA18857@ensoniq.Ensoniq.COM> To: eps@reed.edu > Help: PD IBM PC programs to capture/send MIDI SYSEX > > There is a need at ENSONIQ for a simple Public Domain MS-DOS > compatible MIDI SYSEX capture/send utility. We are currently > experimenting with a version of the PD utility MIDIEX, alas > without success. Thanx to the net ... BONK! Take it back, bad PC MIDI card is the problem. MIDIEX works fine. Thanks to the net :) - fred@ensoniq.com From PSUVM.PSU.EDU!SRJ102 Tue Mar 9 11:46:42 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.118.56.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Tue, 9 Mar 93 11:44 PST Message-Id: Received: from PSUVM.PSU.EDU by PSUVM.PSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4147; Tue, 09 Mar 93 14:44:33 EST Received: by PSUVM (Mailer R2.10 ptf000) id 4718; Tue, 09 Mar 93 14:44:33 EST Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 14:44 EST From: Subject: Vacation To: eps@reed.edu Hi, Please take me off the list for a while; I'm on vacation, and my mail reader is filled! Thanks, Scott From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Tue Mar 9 19:41:06 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Tue, 9 Mar 93 19:40 PST Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <23129-0@pat.uio.no>; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:40:35 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:40:30 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:40:30 +0100 Message-Id: <9303100340.AAfidibus25625@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad X-Sender: tgf@fidibus Subject: krz002.gkh I made another deposit called: eps.reed.edu:/pub/eps/incoming/krz002.gkh I presume other people with expensive connections want to know something about it. All the SYNTxxx instruments are what often is called digital synth sounds. They are made into keyboard type instruments ( which is not obvious at all ). The krz in the diskname signals Kurzweil. They are from the Fairlight library which I think has been transferred to the AKAI library which is used by the K2000. Since those guys can read your EPS disks, there's no reason you cannot read theirs, so that's what I have done. The samples are declared public domain. ------------------------------------------------------------ NAME BlkSize Comments ------------------------------------------------------------ SYNTHAX12 INST 458 Gives some associations towards slap bass, upper register has a lush string-choir-pad type systain SYNTOMAC34 INST 611 Nasty sharp attack-very digital synth, exept little aliasing. SYNTHEPNO 5 INST 300 Has some of the characteristics of epno, not of the sparkling DX7 derivative kind. WEEPY BABY 141 In case you need practice. Play and endlesss loop sequence of this all through the night. ======================================================================= tgf From psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!sol4.cs.psu.edu!mchen Tue Mar 9 23:47:01 1993 Return-Path: <@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu:mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Received: from 130.203.1.6 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Tue, 9 Mar 93 23:46 PST Received: from sol4.cs.psu.edu ([130.203.2.12]) by psuvax1.cs.psu.edu with SMTP id <291997>; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 02:46:16 -0500 Received: by sol4.cs.psu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03849; Wed, 10 Mar 93 00:29:46 EST From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Message-Id: <9303100529.AA03849@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Subject: Effect offset entry for EPS Classic instruments? To: eps@reed.edu (EPS List) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 00:29:45 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] I was spelunking with the EPS's instrument files, and noticed that the effects offset entry (which would be expected to be zero for the Classic) actually gets the value 00100 (after decoding), or 00001000 (I think). Anyone know if either this is right, or why this happens? (EPS 16+ instruments come out right, though.) -- Michael Chen | From the depths of our most lucid horrors | | spring our fond hopes and pure desires... | mchen@cs.psu.edu | except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92 | From Bern.DoCS.UU.SE!bqt Wed Mar 10 01:27:45 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 192.36.125.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 01:27 PST Received: from Bern.DoCS.UU.SE by sunic.sunet.se (5.65c8-/1.28) id AA06173; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 10:27:33 +0100 Received: by Bern.DoCS.UU.SE (Sun-4/75, SunOS 4.1.1) with sendmail 5.61-bind 1.5+ida/ICU/DoCS id AA02044; Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:27:32 +0100 From: Johnny Billquist Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:27:31 MET Reply-To: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Hard disk for EPS... Message-Id: Hi, here is a nice question for all you hardware SCSI gurus out there. I have my classic EPS, and finally got my SCSI interface a short while ago. Now I'm trying to get a hard disk to work, but without success. I've tried two different Quantums, and one Rodime. The Quantums never go through the formatting phase, and the Rodime don't survive copying the OS to it. What happes is that the lamp on the disk goes on, and lever goes out again. My stomach tells me the drive hangs on some command to write big hunks of data to the disk. If I don't copy the OS down to the Rodime, I can create directories on the disk, and remove them. If I try to save sounds, however, the disk hangs again. Need to power cycle either the disk or the EPS to get it out of the hung condition. Is this a typical behaviour when using a disk which don't work together with the EPS, or is my SCSI interface bad? Any clues. (I can probably give some more info if asked the right questions...) Johnny From psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!sol4.cs.psu.edu!mchen Wed Mar 10 01:56:16 1993 Return-Path: <@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu:mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Received: from 130.203.1.6 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 01:55 PST Received: from sol4.cs.psu.edu ([130.203.2.12]) by psuvax1.cs.psu.edu with SMTP id <292029>; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:55:44 -0500 Received: by sol4.cs.psu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04141; Wed, 10 Mar 93 02:39:48 EST From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Message-Id: <9303100739.AA04141@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Subject: Sample format between EPS and GUS? To: eps@reed.edu (EPS List), ultrasound@dsd.es.com (Ultrasound List) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 02:39:47 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Can someone give me the lowdown on the sample encoding technique used for the EPS and the GUS? Signed/unsigned, etc. ? -- Michael Chen | From the depths of our most lucid horrors | | spring our fond hopes and pure desires... | mchen@cs.psu.edu | except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92 | From ebs330.eb.uah.edu!claassen Wed Mar 10 09:13:51 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 146.229.4.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 09:13 PST Received: by ebs330.eb.uah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28697; Wed, 10 Mar 93 11:05:59 CST Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 11:05:59 CST From: claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu (Arne Claassen (ISE)) Message-Id: <9303101705.AA28697@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: OS 2.49 using aDownloader I downloaded the .gkh file for the OS2.49 to use on my EPS Classic and tried saving it to two different disks. Each time i put it into my EPS and it starts up fine for a minute, then chokes and tells me that the disk is not formatted. Anyone know why? I'm currently on OS2.40 with 4X mem, 8 output and SCSI. Also, is anyone working on a SCSI implementation of aDownloader? Even something like accessing other SCSI devices written in EPS format from my Mac would be great. Thanks to Terje for EPSm tho'... Although it keeps crashing my Mac (really only when invoking aDownloader) it is an amazing utility... -AFC ---- claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu From hpgrrd.gr.hp.com!daver Wed Mar 10 09:51:10 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 15.255.152.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 09:50 PST Received: from hpgrrd.gr.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (16.8/15.5+IOS 3.13) id AA21185; Wed, 10 Mar 93 09:50:51 -0800 Received: by hpgrrd.gr.hp.com (16.6/15.5+IOS 3.20) id AA26044; Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:42:54 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:42:54 -0700 From: Dave Ruska Message-Id: <9303101742.AA26044@hpgrrd.gr.hp.com> To: eps@reed.edu, vfx@ucdavis.edu Subject: New Ensoniq Synth/sample player NOTE: I'm sending this out again since neither myself nor a few others I know (all in .hp.com) did not see it broadcast to the mailing list. Sorry if you have already seen this .... (dave) *** NEW ENSONIQ SYNTH/SAMPLE PLAYER *** The SD-1 is replaced by the TS-10. The SD-1 has been obsoleted. All new platform. No upgrade. No compatability with VFX/SD-1 sounds. Uses an ASR-10 (or newer chip?) set. Over 63 effects algorithms. Looks like ASR-10 keyboard. Load ASR-10/EPS samples into optional sample RAM. High density DISK drive. 2 or 8 MB D-RAM (uses 1 or 4 MB SIMMS). 6 MB of ROM, 6000 wave combinations (samples). 30,000 sequencer notes expandable to 100,000. hyperwaves - combine up to 16 waveforms in any order. price: $2495 Thats all I know. daver (daver@hpgrrd.gr.hp.com) From aero.org!obrien Wed Mar 10 10:04:34 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.221.192.10 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:04 PST Received: from antares.aero.org by aerospace.aero.org with SMTP (5.65c/6.0.GT) id AA00451 for eps@reed.edu; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 10:04:07 -0800 Posted-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:04:04 PST Message-Id: <199303101804.AA00451@aerospace.aero.org> Received: from anpiel.aero.org by antares.aero.org (4.1/AMS-1.0) id AA18992 for bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se; Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:04:06 PST To: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:27:31 +0700." Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:04:04 PST From: Mike O'Brien I'll tread dangerous waters here and say that I suspect your SCSI interface is bad. However, I'll also mention that you have to upgrade the ROMs in the classic EPS to 2.0, in order to include SCSI drivers that work. They're in the ROM, not the OS. From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Wed Mar 10 10:34:40 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:34 PST Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <12918-0@pat.uio.no>; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 19:33:53 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 19:33:46 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 19:33:46 +0100 Message-Id: <9303101833.AAfidibus00242@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad X-Sender: tgf@fidibus Subject: Re: OS 2.49 using aDownloader (Arne Claassen (ISE) writes: >I downloaded the .gkh file for the OS2.49 to use on my EPS Classic and tried >saving it to two different disks. Each time i put it into my EPS and it starts >up fine for a minute, then chokes and tells me that the disk is not formatted. > >Anyone know why? I'm currently on OS2.40 with 4X mem, 8 output and SCSI. > Read the documentation. From ebs330.eb.uah.edu!claassen Wed Mar 10 11:02:11 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 146.229.4.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 11:01 PST Received: by ebs330.eb.uah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29582; Wed, 10 Mar 93 12:54:26 CST Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 12:54:26 CST From: claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu (Arne Claassen (ISE)) Message-Id: <9303101854.AA29582@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: re: re: 0S 2.49 Since my domain server has failed me again and won't let me get in touch Terje directly, i'm going to use the list. Ok, i read the documentation and got that OS disks are special and don't like being moved around. Well, I tried just aDownloader with the file i transfered and nothing came of it. Furthermore I noticed at the end of the EPSm documentation it mentions a filetype called EPSb which is for OS disks, although i don't know what to do abou it. Hence, i read the documentation and i'm none the smarter for it. -AFC --- claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu From ronnie.cs.unlv.edu!dflint Wed Mar 10 17:15:18 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 131.216.22.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 17:13 PST Message-Id: Received: from ronnie.CS.UNLV.EDU by JIMI.CS.UNLV.EDU id aa17481; 10 Mar 93 17:10 PST To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 17:10:31 -0800 From: Michael Evans I think your problem is the EPS ROMs. I had an identical problem with my EPS, but with a Syquest drive. I had the ROMs upgraded, and everything works fine. Mike Evans dflint@unlv.edu From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Wed Mar 10 19:20:11 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 19:19 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA12411 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Wed, 10 Mar 1993 21:56:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 21:56:07 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... To: Michael Evans Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: Message-Id: On Wed, 10 Mar 1993, Michael Evans wrote: > > I think your problem is the EPS ROMs. I had an identical > problem with my EPS, but with a Syquest drive. I had the > ROMs upgraded, and everything works fine. > > Mike Evans > dflint@unlv.edu > How do you go about upgrading you're ROMS? I have heard this mentioned several times and I am wondering how I know if I have an old rom or an upgrade in my EPS classic as well as where to get the upgrade and how much it costs as well as how to install it. Is this the "hardware upgrade" I had been hearing about. Joe (187- Mobile Live Techno Vibes) From ronnie.cs.unlv.edu!dflint Wed Mar 10 20:42:02 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 131.216.22.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 20:41 PST Message-Id: Received: from ronnie.CS.UNLV.EDU by JIMI.CS.UNLV.EDU id aa22700; 10 Mar 93 20:34 PST To: Joe LeSesne cc: Michael Evans , eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1993 21:56:07 EST." Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 20:34:52 -0800 From: Michael Evans >How do you go about upgrading you're ROMS? I have heard this mentioned >several times and I am wondering how I know if I have an old rom or an >upgrade in my EPS classic as well as where to get the upgrade and how much >it costs as well as how to install it. Is this the "hardware upgrade" I >had been hearing about. > Joe > (187- Mobile Live Techno Vibes) To find out if you have old ROMs: Press Command -1 (Env 1). Press up arrow until you see "software information", press enter. "RAM VERSION=" should be displayed, on my EPS, the version is 2.49. Right arrow will scroll to "ROM VERSION=". My version is at 2.40. I believe that the above numbers are the latest (and last) versions of the EPS system & ROMs. Anyway, I had my local Ensoniq dealer upgrade the ROMS. I _think_ it cost $50, but it could have been closer to $80. I don't think that it is a difficult operation, (if you're lucky) you just have to pop out the old ROMs and put in the new. It might be that the ROMs are soldered to the board, in which case I would suggest having someone do it for you (that way it's thier fault and not yours if something goes wrong (-:). It was about 18 months ago when I had it done, so things might have changed (I doubt it though-- I seem to remember seeing something about this being the last revision for the EPS classic). Hope this helps. Mike Evans dflint@unlv.edu From ACAD.DRAKE.EDU!AAR001 Wed Mar 10 20:46:29 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 192.84.11.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 20:46 PST Received: from ACAD.DRAKE.EDU by ACAD.DRAKE.EDU (PMDF #2922 ) id <01GVNREQQAW000ACZB@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 22:44:44 CDT Date: 10 Mar 1993 22:44:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "YOU ARE BEING WATCHED, THE VIDEO SCREEN IS TWO WAY" Subject: EPS Clasic ROM V2. To: eps@reed.edu Message-id: <01GVNREQQAW200ACZB@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"eps@reed.edu" X-VMS-Cc: AAR001 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I just ordered the ROM upgrade from my dealer it cost me $39.95, included a disc copy or OS V2.49 and was installed for free... this may not be the norm, but I thought it was great!!! My $0.02 Andrew Russell. **Music Is just my hobbie** **In Life, I am a student** From aero.org!obrien Wed Mar 10 22:41:06 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.221.192.10 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Wed, 10 Mar 93 22:40 PST Received: from antares.aero.org by aerospace.aero.org with SMTP (5.65c/6.0.GT) id AA13220 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1993 21:33:27 -0800 Posted-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 21:33:24 PST Message-Id: <199303110533.AA13220@aerospace.aero.org> Received: from anpiel.aero.org by antares.aero.org (4.1/AMS-1.0) id AA26975 for dflint@ronnie.cs.unlv.edu; Wed, 10 Mar 93 21:33:26 PST To: Michael Evans Cc: Joe LeSesne , eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 93 20:34:52 PST." Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 21:33:24 PST From: Mike O'Brien I was a beta tester for an earlier version of the EPS classic OS, and I changed my own ROMs. It's very easy; everything is socketed and the ROMs are accessible when you flip open the case (i.e. you don't have to dismount the keyboard, as you do to get at part of the main board). If you've dealt with changing ROMs in other things there's nothing tricky about this job. The only hard part is convincing someone to sell you the ROMs directly instead of insisting on doing the installation. Mike O'Brien From Bern.DoCS.UU.SE!bqt Thu Mar 11 00:27:24 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 192.36.125.73 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 00:27 PST Received: from Bern.DoCS.UU.SE by beer.pilsnet.sunet.se (5.65c8-/1.28) id AA15976; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 09:27:05 +0100 Received: by Bern.DoCS.UU.SE (Sun-4/75, SunOS 4.1.1) with sendmail 5.61-bind 1.5+ida/ICU/DoCS id AA17320; Thu, 11 Mar 93 09:21:04 +0100 From: Johnny Billquist Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 9:20:59 MET Reply-To: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se To: Mike O'Brien Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:04:04 PST Message-Id: > I'll tread dangerous waters here and say that I suspect your >SCSI interface is bad. However, I'll also mention that you have to >upgrade the ROMs in the classic EPS to 2.0, in order to include >SCSI drivers that work. They're in the ROM, not the OS. I have 2.40 roms... 2.49 OS. What bothers me is that I get different behaviour on different drives. Also, someone posted a list of drives which was known to work on the EPS (from the TH) a while ago, and that list was rather short. Any clues why? Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus CS student at Uppsala University || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol From silver.lcs.mit.edu!jna Thu Mar 11 02:05:30 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 18.52.0.230 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 02:05 PST Received: by silver.lcs.mit.edu id AA07239; Thu, 11 Mar 93 05:05:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 05:05:11 -0500 From: jna@silver.lcs.mit.edu (spies like us) Message-Id: <9303111005.AA07239@silver.lcs.mit.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: 2.40 ROMS & anarchy :) Anyone out there have an EPROM burner and some blank 27128 EPROMS? We could just download the prom's and burn a shitload of them, cheaply.. and then give them away.. :) -john From Bern.DoCS.UU.SE!bqt Thu Mar 11 05:33:00 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 192.36.125.2 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 05:32 PST Received: from Bern.DoCS.UU.SE by sunic.sunet.se (5.65c8-/1.28) id AA18080; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 14:32:36 +0100 Received: by Bern.DoCS.UU.SE (Sun-4/75, SunOS 4.1.1) with sendmail 5.61-bind 1.5+ida/ICU/DoCS id AA20632; Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:32:35 +0100 From: Johnny Billquist Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:32:33 MET Reply-To: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se To: jna@silver.lcs.mit.edu (spies like us) Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: 2.40 ROMS & anarchy :) In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 11 Mar 93 05:05:11 -0500 Message-Id: > >Anyone out there have an EPROM burner and some blank 27128 EPROMS? > >We could just download the prom's and burn a shitload of them, cheaply.. >and then give them away.. :) They are 27256, but otherwise no big deal. But, why do you need the blank ones? It would be much easier to just dump the proms down on the net, and anybody could burn their own pair. Of course, Ensoniq might have an opinion on that... Johnny From ibm4381.onet.edu!gwiner%UTCADMIN Thu Mar 11 05:56:15 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 141.110.8.15 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 05:54 PST Received: from OSCS_MAIL_GATE ([141.110.8.16]) by cognomen.onet.edu (5.59/1.34) id AA05948; Thu, 11 Mar 93 08:51:20 EST Received: by OSCS_MAIL_GATE with Microsoft Mail id <2B9F6E0A@OSCS_MAIL_GATE>; Thu, 11 Mar 93 08:51:22 EST From: gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 08:51:00 EST Message-Id: <2B9F6E0A@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Encoding: 3 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 I heard the latest ROM version was the same as the OS: 2.49 From ibm4381.onet.edu!gwiner%UTCADMIN Thu Mar 11 06:00:57 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 141.110.8.15 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 05:58 PST Received: from OSCS_MAIL_GATE ([141.110.8.16]) by cognomen.onet.edu (5.59/1.34) id AA05952; Thu, 11 Mar 93 08:55:55 EST Received: by OSCS_MAIL_GATE with Microsoft Mail id <2B9F6F1D@OSCS_MAIL_GATE>; Thu, 11 Mar 93 08:55:57 EST From: gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu To: eps@reed.edu Subject: SCSI Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 08:54:00 EST Message-Id: <2B9F6F1D@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Encoding: 3 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Being somewhat ignorant in the implementation of SCSI on the EPS, would it be possible to attach a CD-ROM drive to the EPS SCSI port? From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Thu Mar 11 06:16:54 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 06:15 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA22163 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Thu, 11 Mar 1993 09:15:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 09:15:25 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Sender: Joe LeSesne Reply-To: Joe LeSesne Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... To: Mike O'Brien Cc: Michael Evans , eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <199303110533.AA13220@aerospace.aero.org> Message-Id: Thanks to you and everyone else who helped me out here. So Ensoniq still carries these ROMS? Why couldn't I just order them from Ensoniq since I am in the same state (PA). Joe (187- Mobile Live Techno Vibes) From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Thu Mar 11 06:20:16 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 06:18 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA22179 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Thu, 11 Mar 1993 09:18:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 09:18:30 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Subject: Re: 2.40 ROMS & anarchy :) To: spies like us Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <9303111005.AA07239@silver.lcs.mit.edu> Message-Id: On Thu, 11 Mar 1993, spies like us wrote: > > Anyone out there have an EPROM burner and some blank 27128 EPROMS? > > We could just download the prom's and burn a shitload of them, cheaply.. > and then give them away.. :) > > -john John to the rescue, ONCE AGAIN! Good Idea! Joe From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Thu Mar 11 07:18:56 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 07:17 PST Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <01991-0@pat.uio.no>; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 16:17:30 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 16:17:24 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 16:17:24 +0100 Message-Id: <9303111517.AAfidibus05472@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad X-Sender: tgf@fidibus Subject: Re: SCSI + CD-ROMS Gregory asked: >Being somewhat ignorant in the implementation of SCSI on the EPS, would it be >possible to attach a CD-ROM drive to the EPS SCSI port? I just add some question to the above: I see no reason why you cannot in general. Of course the details of different makes CD-ROM drives could cause only some of them to work, out of the box, similar to what we witness with SCSI hard drives. They still give away Apple CD 150's here, Is that one compatible? There's no way to test that it really works without having a CD ROM. Are Ensoniq shipping CD ROMs now? (I have asked about this before; no-one knew/cared. Since my local dealer have not got replies from ensoniq yet, I ask here again. Ensoniq PR material said they should ship autumn 1992, but I guess the material was made long before that idea was finalized ) Are any third parties marketing CD-ROMS for EPS/16+/ASR10 ? Are there any guidelines for how to prepare a CD-ROM for the EPS? ( Only developers know this I guess, but there are a few on the list ) tgf From silver.lcs.mit.edu!jna Thu Mar 11 10:13:26 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 18.52.0.230 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 10:11 PST Received: by silver.lcs.mit.edu id AA10135; Thu, 11 Mar 93 13:11:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 13:11:32 -0500 From: jna@silver.lcs.mit.edu (versatile for parties and discos) Message-Id: <9303111811.AA10135@silver.lcs.mit.edu> To: eps@reed.edu, t.g.finstad@fys.uio.no Subject: Re: SCSI + CD-ROMS I have a SCSI Cd-Rom (sony) for my SPARCstation IPC... It's SCSI-2.. maybe it'll work with my eps if I build the proper cable.... ? Then again, who makes anything in a CD-ROM format for the eps..? the majority of CD-Rom discs out there are for the AKAI S1100.. -john From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Thu Mar 11 11:22:42 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 11:21 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA24953 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Thu, 11 Mar 1993 14:21:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 14:21:36 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... To: gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <2B9F6E0A@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Message-Id: On Thu, 11 Mar 1993, gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu wrote: > I heard the latest ROM version was the same as the OS: 2.49 > > I only have 2.0 ROM OS. I have 2.49 RAM OS. Joe (187- Mobile Live Techno Vibes) From psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!sol4.cs.psu.edu!mchen Thu Mar 11 14:05:34 1993 Return-Path: <@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu:mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Received: from 130.203.1.6 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:04 PST Received: from sol4.cs.psu.edu ([130.203.2.12]) by psuvax1.cs.psu.edu with SMTP id <293803>; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 17:04:01 -0500 Received: by sol4.cs.psu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07179; Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:47:58 EST From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Message-Id: <9303111947.AA07179@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Subject: Replacement data slider? To: eps@reed.edu (EPS List) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 14:47:57 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Since the data slider on my EPS went out and it's over warranty, I figured I'd try to save some money and fix it myself. But I can't find a replacement. Anyone know where I can get one? P.S. Does anyone know what exactly should be done to fix the keyboard calibration failure problem? -- Michael Chen | From the depths of our most lucid horrors | | spring our fond hopes and pure desires... | mchen@cs.psu.edu | except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92 | From aero.org!obrien Thu Mar 11 14:49:15 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.221.192.10 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:48 PST Received: from antares.aero.org by aerospace.aero.org with SMTP (5.65c/6.0.GT) id AA10053 for eps@reed.edu; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 14:48:03 -0800 Posted-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:47:58 PST Message-Id: <199303112248.AA10053@aerospace.aero.org> Received: from anpiel.aero.org by antares.aero.org (4.1/AMS-1.0) id AA07493 for bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se; Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:48:01 PST To: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 93 09:20:59 +0700." Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:47:58 PST From: Mike O'Brien > I have 2.40 roms... 2.49 OS. 2.40 ROM release? Well, that's more recent than me! Should have nice things in it like disk interleave factor (very valuable if you happen to wind up with a dismally slow Seagate mechanism like I've got!). > What bothers me is that I get different behaviour on different drives. Probably not too surprising...whatever's wrong, the handshaking is failing at different points. It's possible that your problem is in the cable. Do you have a SCSI terminator at the EPS end? If not, you're probably better off using an UNshielded ribbon cable, otherwise the shielding will give you too much capacitive "ring" due to the impedance mismatch at the two ends of the cable (I assume the drive end does have a terminator). I couldn't get things to work worth squat using a shielded cable until I put a SCSI terminator on the EPS end. Same sort of symptoms you're seeing. Ribbon cable (keep it short!) works fine for me, terminator or no. I'm now using a terminator on general principles because I understand enough about electronics and signals to get the heeb-jeebs just thinking about what's really going on on the cable in the absence of a terminator at both ends of the SCSI bus. But if you keep the bus short and don't use shielded cable you can probably get away with a single terminator at the disk drive end of the bus. > Also, someone posted a list of drives which was known to work on the > EPS (from the TH) a while ago, and that list was rather short. Any > clues why? Most SCSI drives of the capacity typically found on the EPS were designed for the Apple computer market. Many of these manufacturers cut corners. Apple published a spec of all the SCSI commands which disk drive manufacturers had to implement as a minimum in their drive logic. However, manufacturers soon discovered that Macs in fact only ever issued a subset of these commands, and quickly shaved corners by implementing only this subset. Ensoniq, blithely ignorant of this seamy state of affairs, looked at the official Apple spec and said, "Well, we can use any of these we want!" Hence, the only SCSI drives which work on Ensoniq equipment are those which implement the full Apple SCSI spec... and of course the manufacturers who DID cut corners aren't talking! So the only way to find out which disks work is by experiment. The "officially approved" list from Ensoniq lists those drives whose manufacturers have sent units to Ensoniq for testing and verification. The market's so small that most manufacturers haven't bothered. Many other drives do work; I use a CMS 80-meg drive myself which works fine (Seagate innards). One thing I have discovered is that it is often necessary to turn the drive on before you power up the EPS. SCSI drives go through a power-up sequence which can take quite a bit of time. If you don't give them time to finish, they won't respond properly when the EPS tries to talk to them. From aero.org!obrien Thu Mar 11 15:20:33 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.221.192.10 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 15:19 PST Received: from antares.aero.org by aerospace.aero.org with SMTP (5.65c/6.0.GT) id AA10705 for eps@reed.edu; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 15:19:33 -0800 Posted-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 15:19:28 PST Message-Id: <199303112319.AA10705@aerospace.aero.org> Received: from anpiel.aero.org by antares.aero.org (4.1/AMS-1.0) id AA07872 for raver909@telerama.pgh.pa.us; Thu, 11 Mar 93 15:19:30 PST To: Joe LeSesne Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Hard disk for EPS... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 93 09:15:25 EST." Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 15:19:28 PST From: Mike O'Brien Ensoniq tends not to believe that its user population knows how to change ROMs, plus they do not want to undercut the business of their authorized repair shops. Hence, unless special circumstances exist, they won't sell ROMs directly to end users. Oh well. Although you're certainly welcome to try talking them into it! From PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!OUACCVMB.BITNET!CLEARY Thu Mar 11 18:02:06 1993 Return-Path: <@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU:CLEARY@OUACCVMB.BITNET> Received: from 128.112.129.99 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 17:59 PST Message-Id: Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0489; Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:57:03 EST Received: from OUACCVMB.BITNET (NJE origin CLEARY@OUACCVMB) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 5618; Thu, 11 Mar 1993 20:57:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:56:09 EST To: eps@reed.edu From: CLEARY%OUACCVMB.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU Comment: CROSSNET mail via SMTP@INTERBIT Date: 11 March 93, 20:55:11 EST From: CLEARY at OUACCVMB To: EPS at REED.EDU Please unsubscribe me or whatever one does to get off this list. Thanks From ebs330.eb.uah.edu!claassen Thu Mar 11 18:23:05 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 146.229.4.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 18:22 PST Received: by ebs330.eb.uah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12197; Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:15:32 CST Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:15:32 CST From: claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu (Arne Claassen (ISE)) Message-Id: <9303120215.AA12197@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Stratovia I do not remmeber who left this at the FTP site. it was bundled with Celestia. In any case, i was wondering how many oscialltors it uses at one time. I noticed that when i play some notes and then hit a chord the decay from the previous notes gets killed, so i figure i'm exceeding my polyphony. If the creator could contact me, i'd like to know, so that i can figure how many voices i have left when using Stratovia. Thanks, -AFC PS: I'm seeking a good electronic bass drum, the kind so popular from Rap and now almost everywhere. The kind of sustained bass drum sample. The only sample I have is from NIN's Head like Hole and has a click in it. From umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!smills Thu Mar 11 18:26:45 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.255.1.3 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 18:26 PST Received: from umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (5.64.jnf/920408) on Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:26:20 -0600 id AA07645 with SMTP Received: by umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (5.61.jnf/920629) on Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:25:51 -0600 id AA22397 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 20:24:04 -0600 (CST) From: MuffinHead Subject: Re: Cmd-1 To: ensoniq-list In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Who's Mr. Knob? :D Can someone explain what all the tests are doing in a technical sort of way? Like the Low and High Voltage and GPR Read/Write? Muff ___________________________________________________________________________ smills@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu -=<*>=- MuffinHed@aol.com From msc.edu!danw Thu Mar 11 21:10:02 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 137.66.12.254 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 21:08 PST Received: from uh.msc.edu by noc.msc.edu (5.65/MSC/v3.0.1(920324)) id AA00553; Thu, 11 Mar 93 23:08:29 -0600 Received: by uh.msc.edu (5.65/MSC/v3.1r(920220)) id AA06200; Thu, 11 Mar 93 23:08:26 -0600 From: danw@msc.edu (Dan Waylonis) Message-Id: <9303120508.AA06200@uh.msc.edu> Subject: EPS and Hard Discs... To: eps@reed.edu Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 23:08:22 CST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Hi, I have a 4x Maartist SCSI expander on my EPS. I also have a Ehman (R.I.P) 44 meg Syquest HD. I found that I need to: 1. Insert cartridge in powered-down HD. 2. Turn on HD. 3. Wait until spun up to speed. 4. Turn on EPS. Any deviation from the above list causes the EPS to Flash ``Insert System Disk''. And, if I try to change disk device to the HD, it says that it's not connected. :-( Dan /||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||\ | Dan \\ MN Supercomputer Center| Passion makes idiots of the cleverest | Waylonis \\ 1200 Washington Ave S | men, and makes the biggest idiots | Graphics \\ Minneapolis MN 55415 | clever. | danw@msc.edu \\ (612) 626-0340 | -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Thu Mar 11 21:45:48 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 93 21:44 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA02040 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Fri, 12 Mar 1993 00:43:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 00:43:52 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Subject: Electronic Bass Drum To: Arne Claassen Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <9303120215.AA12197@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> Message-Id: Try an 808 Kick. Joe (187- Mobile Live Techno Vibes) From aero.org!obrien Fri Mar 12 00:06:03 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.221.192.10 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 00:05 PST Received: from antares.aero.org by aerospace.aero.org with SMTP (5.65c/6.0.GT) id AA17487 for eps@reed.edu; Fri, 12 Mar 1993 00:05:12 -0800 Posted-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 00:05:09 PST Message-Id: <199303120805.AA17487@aerospace.aero.org> Received: from anpiel.aero.org by antares.aero.org (4.1/AMS-1.0) id AA13922 for danw@msc.edu; Fri, 12 Mar 93 00:05:11 PST To: danw@msc.edu (Dan Waylonis) Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: EPS and Hard Discs... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 93 23:08:22 CST." <9303120508.AA06200@uh.msc.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 00:05:09 PST From: Mike O'Brien > I found that I need to: > > 1. Insert cartridge in powered-down HD. > 2. Turn on HD. > 3. Wait until spun up to speed. > 4. Turn on EPS. > > Any deviation from the above list causes the EPS to Flash ``Insert System > Disk''. And, if I try to change disk device to the HD, it says that it's > not connected. :-( That's because the EPS, just after it's "Am I awake and sane?" check on power up, goes bipping merrily along the SCSI bus, sending "Who's there?" messages to all possible SCSI ID's, 0-7, except 3 (itself). Anybody who answers is a candidate for booting from, anybody who doesn't answer doesn't exist, now and forever, amen. It won't ever try again no matter what you tell it to do. Your disk isn't about to respond to any SCSI commands until _it's_ completed _its_ own "Am I awake and sane?" sequence. My drive is the same way. So, the disk has to be woken up first, before the EPS is turned on. Experiment has taught me the amount of permissible overlap, but of course that'll depend on how long your disk spends in deciding it's awake and sane. Mike From fys.uio.no!t.g.finstad Fri Mar 12 01:42:07 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.240.2.50 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 01:41 PST Received: from ulrik.uio.no by pat.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <09077-0@pat.uio.no>; Fri, 12 Mar 1993 10:41:21 +0100 Received: from [129.240.22.194] by fidibus.uio.no ; Fri, 12 Mar 1993 10:41:06 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 10:41:06 +0100 Message-Id: <9303120941.AAfidibus09592@fidibus.uio.no> To: eps@reed.edu From: Terje Finstad X-Sender: tgf@fidibus Subject: Re: OS 2.49 using aDownloader Andrew Corradin writes: >I know Scandinavians can be somewhat terse -- >it would be helpful if you actually posted at least a short answer to the >question, rather than a vague reference to the manual. I gave a short answer giving a reference where you could find the answer. If you call that terse then we have a problem. The EPS in general uses the file allocation table on the floppy for acessing individual files. It does so for every file exept the O.S. It ignores the FAT when it acesses the O.S., both for reading and writing. It is not a priori certain that thats the way it would have to be for all combinations of already installed ROM and OS versions. It could for instance have been so that the running OS would patch this procedure ( OS reading procedure ) when it was running. Since there are two ways to get the OS on disk: 1) writing it on the new floppy as a startup or by 2) the -command and inserting the new floppy as a source disk. Why I say it is/was not a priori certain is because in one way of looking upon it you could view the practice of not using the FAT as an inconsistency. In addition to the above I advice against moving OS system from one image to another in general with any tool I have written, since I do not know the requirements for doing that. There is a reference to the particular floppy (for 16+) inside the OS file and visa versa. I don't know the minimum requirements nor the general systematic (and I don't want to find out). You may need to read something somewhere in order that this give any meaning. The issue is not very important in my opinion. When it comes to the EPS classic, it would normally only be once in your lifetime you would need to transfer the OS from your computer. May be the same for the 16+. I have myself gotten OS2.49 by other means. And to answer Andrews question: I am neither drunk nor particularly ugly. From millie.loc.gov!jeff Fri Mar 12 05:27:39 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 140.147.2.12 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 05:27 PST Received: from millie.loc.gov by rs1.loc.gov (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA07167; Fri, 12 Mar 1993 08:26:35 -0500 Received: by millie.loc.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1-jjm2) id AA11509; Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:28:56 EST Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:28:56 EST From: jeff@millie.loc.gov (Jeff Mallory) Message-Id: <9303121328.AA11509@millie.loc.gov> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: TJF defense, though hardly needed I missed "Andrew's question" implying Terje's state of mind as being drunk or ugly, but must immediately jump to his defense having worked closely with the man decades ago in a far off lab in southern California. In person, Terje is amazing, all there is to say. He is relentlessly curious, dangerously conversational, inveterately abhorrent of authority and form (as opposed to substance), _and_, after all the excellent discourse, ideas, programs and fun he's contributed to this eps list, why he has to have any shit cast his way is a disgrace and humiliation to all of we eps-ers. He is _not_ ugly, but a tall, dignified Norwegian, always smiling at the unwary and wrapped in his impressive familial beard and his unconventional thoughts. Jeff Mallory jeff@millie.loc.gov From ibm4381.onet.edu!gwiner%UTCADMIN Fri Mar 12 06:03:17 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 141.110.8.15 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 06:02 PST Received: from OSCS_MAIL_GATE ([141.110.8.16]) by cognomen.onet.edu (5.59/1.34) id AA07163; Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:59:16 EST Received: by OSCS_MAIL_GATE with Microsoft Mail id <2BA0C168@OSCS_MAIL_GATE>; Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:59:20 EST From: gwiner%UTCADMIN@ibm4381.onet.edu To: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu, eps@reed.edu Subject: Replacement data slider? Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:58:00 EST Message-Id: <2BA0C168@OSCS_MAIL_GATE> Encoding: 45 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Yes, I've fixed a friend's keyboard after I figured out what they did to mine. It wasn't too hard. I probably would have done better if I had more electronic repair experience, but essentially what you need to do is remove 6 keys up and down from Middle C and solder some jumpers across the two boards there. It wasn't that hard once I got going...I think there's 12 pins. If you're friends with anyone who works at the authorized repair station, you can get a copy of Ensoniq's 1 page instruction set that tells you how to fix it. If you're really in, there's a little kit that Ensoniq sends out to the repair places with the right sized wires and a few other little things. .|. <-you just solder the jumpers across these pins, and everything's .|. hunky-dory .|. .|. .|. .|. .|. ...That is assuming that the calibration error is a result of the "loose pin" problem in earlier EPS's. I guess that the pins come loose after some playing because of X vs. Y stress on the above mentioned keyboard connector. If you want more info, contact me. Sorry, no info on the data slider (although I DID wreck mine once cause I hit it too hard). I think the replacement cost about $125, but that was years ago. Gregory ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLY FROM: Winer, Greg Return-Path: <@IBM4381.ONET.EDU,@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu:mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu> From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Message-Id: <9303111947.AA07179@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Subject: Replacement data slider? To: eps@reed.edu (EPS List) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 14:47:57 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Since the data slider on my EPS went out and it's over warranty, I figuredI'd try to save some money and fix it myself. But I can't find a replacement. Anyone know where I can get one? P.S. Does anyone know what exactly should be done to fix the keyboard calibration failure problem? -- Michael Chen | From the depths of our most lucid horrors | | spring our fond hopes and pure desires... | mchen@cs.psu.edu | except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92 | From ebs330.eb.uah.edu!claassen Fri Mar 12 07:49:47 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 146.229.4.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 07:49 PST Received: by ebs330.eb.uah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16283; Fri, 12 Mar 93 09:42:18 CST Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 09:42:18 CST From: claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu (Arne Claassen (ISE)) Message-Id: <9303121542.AA16283@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Multiple SCSIs Does anyone have experience with an EPS, a Syquest (or similar) and a Mac on SCSI together? How do the Mac and the EPS handle it, if you change the cartridge to the other format while powered up. SAy, I got the Mac using the Syquest to get some MIDI info, then I eject it, and put in an EPS disk to get some samples onto my EPS. Does either machine freak out because of the foreign format. How about going the other way? -AFC From ads.com!pdel Fri Mar 12 07:55:58 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.229.30.16 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 07:55 PST Received: from bert.ads.com by ads.com (5.65+/1.34v1.3) id AA09945; Fri, 12 Mar 93 07:56:39 -0800 From: pdel@ads.com (Peter Delevoryas) Received: by bert.ads.com (5.65+/4.7) id AA01771; Fri, 12 Mar 93 07:56:18 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 07:56:18 -0800 Message-Id: <9303121556.AA01771@bert.ads.com> To: jeff@millie.loc.gov Subject: Re: TJF defense, though hardly needed Cc: eps@reed.edu >I missed "Andrew's question" implying Terje's state of mind as being drunk or ugly, but must immediately jump to his defense I like his animated cursors. :) pd From psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!sol4.cs.psu.edu!mchen Fri Mar 12 13:36:35 1993 Return-Path: <@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu:mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Received: from 130.203.1.6 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 13:35 PST Received: from sol4.cs.psu.edu ([130.203.2.12]) by psuvax1.cs.psu.edu with SMTP id <294209>; Fri, 12 Mar 1993 16:35:00 -0500 Received: by sol4.cs.psu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09202; Fri, 12 Mar 93 14:12:38 EST From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Message-Id: <9303121912.AA09202@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Subject: EPSDisk v1.21 -- full support for COMPUTER format To: fred@ensoniq.com (Fred Shaul), eps@reed.edu (EPS List) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 14:12:37 -0500 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] The new version of EPSDisk (1.21) now fully supports the COMPUTER format of the ASR-10, allowing you to treat them as any other volume: format, copy, etc. Of course, the copy thing still doesn't like different disk sizes... is there interest in having an 800K COMPUTER format disk type (sector offset 1, but still 800K, to upload/download disk images) ? -- Michael Chen | From the depths of our most lucid horrors | | spring our fond hopes and pure desires... | mchen@cs.psu.edu | except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92 | From grouch.jpl.nasa.gov!BSS Fri Mar 12 13:41:28 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.149.16.6 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Fri, 12 Mar 93 13:41 PST Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 13:36:55 -0800 (PST) From: BSS@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov To: eps@reed.edu Message-Id: <930312133655.102@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov> Subject: subscribe From csd4.csd.uwm.edu!boottrax Sat Mar 13 01:02:42 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.89.7.4 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 01:00 PST Received: by csd4.csd.uwm.edu; id AA13434; Sat, 13 Mar 93 03:00:30 -0600 From: Boot Trax Message-Id: <9303130900.AA13434@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Strings and techno synths? To: eps@reed.edu Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 3:00:30 CST We finally created a good song, thanks to my new EPS, and some D50 strings I downloaded. I really like them, and plan to upload some of my own stuff to the nextues site. My question is: Are there any other sites with more sounds? And I guess this belongs more on the rec.music.makers news group than here but, what i a good sequencer, I'm stuck using voyetra right now and I am not familiar with what is good. I used the Cakewalk for Windows Pro version and found it's price much too high. Is ther eany good sequencer for under $200 that will do Sys EX well with my EPS, and do everything a sequencer should do? And work with my soundblaster MIDI? -- (( boottrax@csd4.csd.uwm.edu )) Basement Software Products )) )) 'Keeping my opinions to myself' (( (( Network Analysis - Systems Design - Software Engineering )) )) Make a system foolproof, and only a fool will want to use it (( From ebs330.eb.uah.edu!claassen Sat Mar 13 07:52:25 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 146.229.4.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 07:52 PST Received: by ebs330.eb.uah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12954; Sat, 13 Mar 93 09:44:42 CST Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 09:44:42 CST From: claassen@ebs330.eb.uah.edu (Arne Claassen (ISE)) Message-Id: <9303131544.AA12954@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Bass drum... Thanks to all those who replied. I got a virtual flood of messages pointing me to the TR 909 or 808. I got the TR x0x and the drum is fairly, although still not quite what i wanted. It'l do for a while tho'.... I guess, there is no way to resample the EPS with EPS without going to tape inbetween. I mean ccombine two wavesamples into one, without using the memory hogging of layering.. -AFC From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Sat Mar 13 12:17:37 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 12:17 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA20411 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Sat, 13 Mar 1993 15:17:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 15:17:10 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Subject: Re: Bass drum... To: Arne Claassen Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <9303131544.AA12954@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> Message-Id: On Sat, 13 Mar 1993, Arne Claassen wrote: > > Thanks to all those who replied. I got a virtual flood of messages pointing me > to the TR 909 or 808. I got the TR x0x and the drum is fairly, although still > not quite what i wanted. It'l do for a while tho'.... I guess, there is no way > to resample the EPS with EPS without going to tape inbetween. I mean ccombine > two wavesamples into one, without using the memory hogging of layering.. > > -AFC Ah, but you're wrong. You can use the command "Add Data" to do just that. First try the Merge Wavesample command and if that doesn't work for you then hit command, LFO and scroll to Add Data. You can then use this to combine two seperate wavesamples or make one wavesample louder by copying it to itself. Joe From andrew.cmu.edu!pd2m+ Sat Mar 13 13:17:05 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.10.105 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 13:16 PST Received: by po5.andrew.cmu.edu (5.54/3.15) id for eps@reed.edu; Sat, 13 Mar 93 16:16:48 EST Received: via switchmail; Sat, 13 Mar 1993 16:16:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from ccon.weh.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sat, 13 Mar 1993 16:14:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from ccon.weh.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sat, 13 Mar 1993 16:14:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from BatMail.robin.v2.13.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.ccon.weh.andrew.cmu.edu.pmax.ul4 via MS.5.6.ccon.weh.andrew.cmu.edu.pmax_ul4; Sat, 13 Mar 1993 16:14:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 16:14:36 -0500 (EST) From: Philip Dixon To: eps@reed.edu Subject: Unsubscribtion Please unsubscribe me from this list, I have now bought a Kog O1/W What you are, is God's gift to you. What you become, is your gift to God. --Think about it.... "I disagree with what you are saying, but, I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire Philip Case Dixon From ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!djk Sat Mar 13 18:02:22 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.83.135.26 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 18:01 PST Received: by tramp.cc.utexas.edu (5.61/1.34/CCWF 1.21) id AA19173; Sat, 13 Mar 93 20:01:53 -0600 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 19:54:57 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Keldsen Subject: Re: Multiple SCSIs To: Arne Claassen Cc: eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: <9303121542.AA16283@ebs330.eb.uah.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 12 Mar 1993, Arne Claassen wrote: > Does anyone have experience with an EPS, a Syquest (or similar) and a Mac on > SCSI together? yes. mac-syquest.44-quantum105-quantum210-eps. > How do the Mac and the EPS handle it, if you change the cartridge to the > other format while powered up. SAy, I got the Mac using the Syquest to get > some MIDI info, then I eject it, and put in an EPS disk to get some samples > onto my EPS. Does either machine freak out because of the foreign format. > How about going the other way? They don't care. Of course, neither the EPS nor the MAC will be able to read they other cartridges. Remember to keep them SCSI id's different. > -AFC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Keldsen | Are you now, or have you ever been: djk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | a. A Berklee College student? Univ. of Texas, Austin | b. A member/fan of Billy Death? Music Composition, MM | c. a MAX programmer? M & M Consultant (ask) | d. a Think-C & MIDI programmer? | if YES to any of these, contact me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!sol4.cs.psu.edu!mchen Sat Mar 13 19:59:49 1993 Return-Path: <@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu:mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu> Received: from 130.203.1.6 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 19:59 PST Received: from sol4.cs.psu.edu ([130.203.2.12]) by psuvax1.cs.psu.edu with SMTP id <292388>; Sat, 13 Mar 1993 22:59:01 -0500 Received: by sol4.cs.psu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11403; Sat, 13 Mar 93 20:43:02 EST Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 20:43:02 -0500 From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Message-Id: <9303140143.AA11403@sol4.cs.psu.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: EPSDisk v1.21c -- bug fix and minor enhancements Well, I have EPSDisk v1.21c here ready to upload, but the archive won't let me on. Oh well, why don't I say what's new. EPSDisk v1.21c fixes a 1-character typo which caused the destination volume's number of sectors per track to be set incorrectly to 10. Also added is the ability to accept single-sector errors in the copy routine. BTW, if you know enough about other disk formats, EPSDisk can be used for them too... I've been using it to archive and copy TX16W disks (as COMP_DD). -- Mike From physics.su.OZ.AU!studer Sat Mar 13 21:21:28 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.78.129.1 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 21:20 PST Received: from alfven.physics.su.OZ.AU by physics.su.OZ.AU with SMTP id AA19852 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sun, 14 Mar 1993 15:20:24 +1000 Received: by alfven.physics.su.OZ.AU (4.1/5.17) id AA12828; Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:20:23 EST From: studer@physics.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Studer) Message-Id: <9303140520.AA12828@alfven.physics.su.OZ.AU> Subject: Bass + drum sounds To: eps@reed.edu Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:20:22 EST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Given the recent call for drum sounds (bass in particular) may I suggest the use of the wonderful SYNTHESISED LOOP command to beef up those poxy samples that just don't sound quite right. All you have to do is set the start and end parameters of your loop so that they surround the main portion of the drum sample and play around with the parameters. Of course, your sound will be looped, but you can get a feel from the newly generated low noisy rumble of whether in fact your bass drum will sound any good. I usually use MEDIUM and anywhere from 50-100% as parameters, and if the samples end up really long I use CONVERT SAMPLE RATE to shift them down to a more respectable number (a little alias noise never hurt anyone). On my EPS 13 minus I shift all the way down to the lowest sample rate (10k from memory). Then I put an envelope on the new sound and, usually, layer it with the original (oops, looks like you'll have to remember to COPY your wavesample beforehand). That way you get the original bass "pumh" sound, fleshed out with the synth looped version. The envelope I use is usually a short triangle envelope that cuts in just after the original sample finishes. Also very useful for beefing up snare samples- particularly when you pitch shift up the synth looped version (I shift by a fifth, typically). By setting your synth loop parameters you can get a lot of variation in your drum sound- FINE or VERY FINE leads to shrill, metallic sounds, MEDIUM tends to most "resemble" the original sound, and the longer ones add a "rumbly", staggered feel to the drum. Just my 2c- as a general rule, if one of my sounds seems a bit naff, I try to look for solutions within the processin section of the EPS before hunting for new samples. Doesn't always work of course, but worth a try. Andrew Studer... studer@physics.su.oz.au From msc.edu!alan Sat Mar 13 22:33:04 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 137.66.12.254 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 22:31 PST Received: from af.msc.edu by noc.msc.edu (5.65/MSC/v3.0.1(920324)) id AA25748; Sun, 14 Mar 93 00:31:53 -0600 Received: by af.msc.edu (5.57/MSC/v3.0(901107)) id AA02242; Sun, 14 Mar 93 00:31:52 -0600 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 00:31:52 -0600 From: alan@msc.edu Message-Id: <9303140631.AA02242@af.msc.edu> To: eps@reed.edu Subject: patch editor for PCs Is there patch editor for the EPS or ASR, commercial or otherwise, that would allow adjustment of various instrument parameters from a PC keyboard? -- Alan E. Klietz Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc. 1200 Washington Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55415 Tel: +1 612 626 1737 Internet: alan@msc.edu Fax: +1 612 624 6550 From telerama.pgh.pa.us!raver909 Sat Mar 13 22:33:09 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 128.2.55.33 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sat, 13 Mar 93 22:32 PST Received: by telerama.pgh.pa.us id AA03864 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eps@reed.edu); Sun, 14 Mar 1993 01:32:20 -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 01:32:18 -0500 (EST) From: Joe LeSesne Subject: Re: Multiple SCSIs-While we're on the subject of HD's. To: Dan Keldsen Cc: Arne Claassen , eps@reed.edu In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Here's my problem. I am thinking of adding SCSI to my EPS classic 4X and I will be doing alot of live gigging in all kinds of temperatures, inside and outside. What kinda of HD should I get? I need something durable and possibly rack-mountable. Also there must, MUST be a relatively fast access time. Any suggestions? Joe (187- Mobile Live Techno Vibes) From bsc.no!tored Sun Mar 14 03:42:01 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 129.177.21.11 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sun, 14 Mar 93 03:41 PST Received: from reefe (reefe.bsc.no) by mailroom.bsc.no id ; Sun, 14 Mar 1993 12:41:32 +0100 From: Tore Dimmestol Received: by reefe id ; Sun, 14 Mar 93 12:41:57 +0100 Message-Id: <9303141141.AA16564@reefe> Subject: Request: Arabic bowed string instrument sample To: eps@reed.edu Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 12:41:56 MET X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] I am desperately seeking a sample of an arabic bowed string instrument, the name of which I don't recall. It sounds like some early viola, and is common within the popular 'Arabesque' rhythmic music. Any pointers to samples or samples sources would be highly appreciated. Tore Dimmesto"l email tored@bsc.no From aero.org!obrien Sun Mar 14 15:17:14 1993 Return-Path: Received: from 130.221.192.10 by reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:15 PST Received: from antares.aero.org by aerospace.aero.org with SMTP (5.65c/6.0.GT) id AA26881 for eps@reed.edu; Sun, 14 Mar 1993 15:14:19 -0800 Posted-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:14:16 PST Message-Id: <199303142314.AA26881@aerospace.aero.org> Received: from anpiel.aero.org by antares.aero.org (4.1/AMS-1.0) id AA12140 for raver909@telerama.pgh.pa.us; Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:14:18 PST To: Joe LeSesne Cc: eps@reed.edu Subject: Re: Multiple SCSIs-While we're on the subject of HD's. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 93 01:32:18 EST." Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:14:16 PST From: Mike O'Brien > Also there must, MUST be a relatively fast access > time. Any suggestions? When it comes to reliability, you're on your own. However, I'd point out that access time is or should be a non-issue on most SCSI disk drives on the market, because if you set up a HD on an EPS the way you're supposed to, you only pay that time once per instrument load, and just suck blocks over without moving the heads the rest of the time. The utter lack of buffering or readahead in the EPS software means that if you fragment the disk, it'll take longer to load an instrument, until (worst case) if you put the blocks out there completely randomly (through lots of file creates and deletes) you won't see much speed increase over a floppy. If what you're talking about is data transfer time, that's another matter, but even there, anything made in the latter half of the 20th century should be fine. I've got a really slow disk, and was seeing up to 17-second load times for things like Piano-88. Then I finally got a copy of the OS with Interleave (which, apparently, the EPS-M always had but which took its own sweet time getting into the EPS Classic OS), and when I put a 3:1 interleave factor on my (CMS-80, Seagate mechanism) drive, loading that sucker dropped down to about 2.5 seconds. It was really dramatic - you could see this absolute knee in the load time; I took the time to reformat that puppy using everything from 1:1 interleave (the default) up to 8 or 9 to 1, and the response time (like the EPS :-) was Classic. Long long time at 1:1 and 2:1, drop to a minimum at 3:1 (from 17 sec. down to 2.5), then crawl upwards slowly with the increased interleave factor. Hoo-raw. Mike