By "legato mode," do you mean that the envelope isn't re-triggering? If you're running it from a sequencer, you should note that the MS-20 (or at least the MS-20 Mini, and I believe the original as well) require a minimum gap between the gate-off of one note and the gate-on of the next, otherwise it...

SCSI is usually the way to go for samplers, but I've heard some horror stories about the EPS's SCSI implementation.

You're floppy drive might be on it's way out. Hard to say. This is a worthwhile point; floppy drives can be sensitive little buggers. A common failure point for drives of that vintage is the drive belt, which was not uncommonly made out of that cheap rubber that degrades into sticky tar over time. ...

I've actually had better luck with the longevity of DSDD floppies than DSHD ones, myself.

The problem with 1.44MB floppies is that a huge percentage of the surviving blanks were made on the cheap and don't even hold up as well as 720KB disks do. Especially beware of the designer-colors ones from the late '90s, those are usually pure c**p. If you have a DOS or Windows 9x PC handy, do a fu...

Yes, the filter characteristics are at least subtly different on pretty much every C64. That said, it's still a very recognizable, characteristic sound.

(If you're going to try to mimic it, note that it's 18 dB/oct. rather than the more common 12 or 24.)

I'd do one with my new JP6, but until I get the scaling adjusted it's kind of already in detune mode...

I just wanted to give a hearty recommendation to this, I went yesterday and took two of my brothers and we had an absolute blast. Didn't get a chance to use everything, but there's always next time...

No, but I'll do it for real money.

I presume the reference is to the old Scopitone video.

Mellotron, Fairlight, Emulator II...all kinds of good uses for a hardware sampler

I feel that you can just send that on up my way and I'll cover the shipping ;P

If you must jack with an 808, please use a condom.

More flexibility. The SID has three voices, but only one filter and master volume control between them. (Though that's less of a problem if you plan to use it as a three-oscillator monosynth.) Adding a second SID gives you six voices and two filters.