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...

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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.
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