CF device by Lotharek
Not this particular one, but I have seen his as well. Mine was from the now defunct SCSI4Samplers.com, although the unit itself is a device for industrial equipment still available from China on ebay sometimes.
CF device by Lotharek
Marco Koeller wrote:Be happy that you dont have to repair a Yamaha CS-80 or a Roland Jupiter-8
gmeredith wrote:Here's one at the moment for $129 BIN on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CF-RaizinMonste ... 3cf88eba64
Here is a SCSI to SD card reader, $135 - 2 available:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SD-FuzinMonster ... 1156&rt=nc
synthroom wrote:Actually, I do have a Jupiter 8 that needs repair... :^(
gmeredith wrote:I have had SCSI hard drives in my ESi2000 and 4000. From memory there is a size barrier of 8GB, and some people have mentioned a 4GB - perhaps depending on the OS firmware version of the sampler. I have had 2GB scsi drives in mine with no problems - usually quantum fireballs or seagates that I ransacked from old apple computers.
I now have SCSI-CF card readers in both of mine - silent, fast, lightweight. I don't know why scsi hard drives have to be so noisy. For getting the samples onto the sampler I have a scsi card in my win98 studio machine. WinXP will handle SCSI but you have to do a lot of setup work to make it do it. Win98 handles it natively and smoothly. You'll need the Esi drivers loaded on the computer for the sampler for it to connect. Load up wav samples with Sound Forge or other editing program that allows single sample dump. Xtrakk works well for loading whole soundfont sf2 banks directly into the sampler over SCSI:
http://home.arcor.de/murmel999/files/xtrakkhelp.htm
Format - it's an Emu proprietary format - you can't see it under windows at least. Yes you can format the drive in the sampler - it's under the disk management menu, the manual should have the instructions. It's been a long while![]()
The yahoo esi samplers group has everything in it that you need - programs, ESi drivers, SCSI info etc.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/emu ... s/messages
I did a lot of work there on SCSI to USB adapters for it. Join up if you can - not sure if it's administrated any more. If you can't, I have all the resources anyway. Beware there is a nasty troll on the site - you'll know by reading the past posts who it is.
Avoid zip disks if you can - they're annoying and unreliable, I started out with them. You'll soon run out of space with them anyway if you've maxed out your Esi to 128MB RAM (which is a MUST)
Cheers, Graham
gmeredith wrote:I have both an ESi32 and Esi4000 with one installed. You need to format the card in the ESi through the disk menu, do a full disk format.
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