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Added 2022-02-23 00:12:48 +0000 UTCComments
Hey there, I have a DP2, curious about this ipad app you mentioned to control it if that also works for the DP2?
Conor Greive
2022-07-27 10:21:03 +0000 UTCI’m happy for your decision, Chris! Make sure to track down all the Waveboy effects disks as they open up all sorts of wonderful sonic landscapes. I’ve had an ASR-10 keyboard since 1995 and had a blast creating multi-track recordings with the various stock instrument samples but got the most out of directly sampling live acoustic sounds and mangling, resampling, cross-fade looping, etc. And that’s before running samples through the many built-in effects. Plus transwaves. It is a deep instrument and worth studying the hefty Ensoniq user manual. I look forward to hearing about your sonic excursions with it.
Russell Scheil
2022-02-23 03:49:38 +0000 UTCPreety sure the ASR has all the effects processing from the D/P 4 which is just an absolutely beautiful sounding rack unit. Currently trying to bring my D/P 4 back online after installing the latest and final firmware upgrade (so it will work with the unofficial iPad app to program it. Would love to see you model some of the more outre effects in that puppy. I once read (and totally agree) these have the unique quality of truly blending with the signal instead of merely seeming to sit on top of it. Blurry hypercolor goodness ✌️
John Olexovitch
2022-02-23 01:40:07 +0000 UTCNow is when you should tell me the wonderful things the lil' bugger can do (the ASR-10 keyboard, not the rackmount or anything like that). I'm definitely up to speed with taking stuff and resampling it to play back at strikingly different sample rates for effect: there's going to be a plugin just for that, which I can hopefully get pretty close. What else?
Chris Johnson
2022-02-23 00:21:42 +0000 UTCThe seller says this about the dongle: "Hi, thank you so much for your purchase! You're right to be excited about the SCSI2SD; it is an absolute game-changer for this instrument. Two 8GB micro SD cards are included with your purchase. These cards are already formatted to work immediately with the reader. One of them will already have some samples on it (from me and the library floppies which I saved for quicker access), but you can wipe all of this if you want, and it comes no where near to filling up the card data-wise. I hope that answers your question on a general level... here is a ton more info/ specifics, in case you're curious: The SCSI2SD mimics up to seven SCSI hard drives using a single micro SD card. It is a very popular source of reliable modern storage for vintage samplers, Macs, etc. It has the added benefit of being completely silent with no moving parts and you can just keep swiping out the micro SD card for more storage. Since the ASR-10 only reliably reads SCSI hard drives up to 2GB, you can have a single 8GB micro SD card partitioned into 4 2GB partitions available at SCSI ID's 0,1,2, and 4 (The ASR uses SCSI ID 3 automatically). Each partition is formatted with the default ASR-10 folder structure and OS. So, when you fire up the ASR-10, it will boot to the first SCSI ID with the OS. In this case, its SCSI ID 4. You can freely change the drive using the Change SCSI Drive command on the ASR-10. You can also reformat the SCSI partitions how you see fit from the ASR-10, and reconfigure the SCSI partitions using the SCSI2SD configuration utility for Mac or PC, though that's probably more trouble than it's worth."
Chris Johnson
2022-02-23 00:15:34 +0000 UTC
