Apart from the Moog IIIc, does anyone know which gear was used by the Logic System (Hideki Matsutake)? I can't seem to find much info online, and neither any pictures of CD/vinyl liner notes with this sort of info

Desmond : Indeed, Logic 10.5 with its Quicksampler does look very nice! :D I had a brief look at it when attaching and booting into an external USB hard drive with MacOS 10.14 and Logic 10.5 on my 13" Macbook Pro (mid-2012). What's doable right now is to upgrade that laptop from 10.13 to 10.14 (I'm...

If you are using Logic, then upgrading to 10.5.x is *strongly* recommended, because Sampler and QuickSampler make working with samples 1000% quicker and more fun than the old EXS24... Yes, but I believe MacOS 10.14 Mojave is needed for that and with my Mac Pro (mid-2010) I'd need to replace my exis...

I'm particularly interested in the Akai X-7000/S-700 and S-612 factory sounds and Emulator I and II factory sounds. I believe several libraries have been compiled already, but none of them cater for other samplers than they're intended for. I've done it. And actually they DO cater for a wide range ...

Pretty much all the Emulator libraries are out there, factory and third-party. There's an EII thread on GS where a guy has compiled all these, and you can find them in native disk formats, converted to WAVs etc. All that stuff is out there, and an evening of googling will turn up all the stuff you ...

As mentioned in my previous posts, I'm willing to offer the Akai sound library disks to somebody that commits to digitize and share the samples with the community. By "digitize" you mean to sample the audio-output from the S-612 into a computer etc. in order to create standard audio files (WAV, AIF...

If the transfer from Mac to Yamaha must be via floppies, you have a problem...Apple hasn't been supporting floppy drives for a loooooong time. It's true that Macs haven't had built-in floppy drives for years, but I've been using an external USB floppy drive for this. I can't remember if later MacOS...

Thanks for replying. What you say about the difficulty of converting makes perfectly sense (unfortunately). I assume the biggest challenge is if I want to convert not only the audio itself but also whatever else has been included in the disk images such as loop-points, envelope generators, key-mappi...

There are many sample libraries online which come in the form of disk images. Obviously they're made for the specific sampler in question. Since I'd like to use "classic" sample library sounds (Emulator I, II, Emax etc., Ensoniq Mirage, Akai S-700/612/900/950/1000 etc. Fairlight, Synclavier and so o...

It's been a while, but how did the LCD replacement work out?

Fortunately I have a MIDI patchbay (Roland A-880), so that leaves the tactile feel. I should probably use the iPad app over time before deciding to sell or keep the PG-800.
Thanks for your input

Good suggestions.
Unfortunately no spectrum analyzer available here though.

Yes, the ensemble effect is definitely what makes things interesting! Do you have any suggestion as to how to set up the various resonant filters and how many? I was thinking I'd use one of the many filter plugins available along with the mentioned ensemble plugin after feeding a hardware synth (pro...

Thanks for the suggestion. That XILS Chor'X plugin works for me (instead of having to buy/build a hardware variant). Please explain about the multiple bandpass filters as I'm not familiar with them. Is it fair to assume that it's based on a very simple sound source (i.e. a sawtooth as with the strin...

What does it take to re-create the Roland VP-330 "human voice" sounds with a synth of some kind? I managed to re-create the "Strings" using a Roland MKS-50 using a single sawtooth waveform and fiddling with the filter. This gave me the basic sound, but of course the thing that makes the VP-330 so sp...