Nice one, I never use my real disk drive or tape drive since getting mine last year!Quote:
Originally Posted by nivalis
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Nice one, I never use my real disk drive or tape drive since getting mine last year!Quote:
Originally Posted by nivalis
That Simon is so nice. I have the smaller edition, but withouy front-plate.
Playede it A LOT in the early 80's
Thanks! Yes costed me quite a lot too, more of an impulse buy but its really cool. Says it is copyright 1978 at the back :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by bitman
I still have my Simon (named "Genius" in Brazil) and will play with it this weekend. It is in my country house doing nothing for six months...
Hope I remembered to remove the batteries from it before leaving last time.:blased:
Picked up a couple items in the last day or two.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...327_073147.jpg
Received an A1200 from beaps. Pretty nice overall condition.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B...327_072936.jpg
Dell S2440L - 24inch 1080P monitor. One of the lowest lag monitors on the market. Support both 50 and 60 Hz over HDMI!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c...327_072900.jpg
XRGB-Mini Framemeister!! Gorgeous RGB to HDMI upscaler. Tested it so far with my SNES and it looks beautiful. Will test with PCEngine and look for my thoughts on it with the Amiga later today or tomorrow.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j...327_073914.jpg
Boatload of SNES Scart RGB cables. Importing these and modding them to be suitable on NTSC SNES and SFC machines for some folks @ neo-geo.com
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...327_070852.jpg
Bonus Framemeister screenshot of F-Zero with scanlines enabled.
My A1000 MIDI interface came in today, but that was expected.
What was not expected was the extra software that my friend Jozsi (tbtorro) sent me. I hope to have some free time soon to discover its' contents.
Thanks mate! :thumbsup:
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps884c8bfc.jpg
Ooh, fun. You should image that for the rest of us... ;)
Anyway, I made a stop in at Music-Go-Round this morning, and I'm afraid my addiction to old MIDI gear is growing worse...
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8531/emuproteus1.jpg
E-mu Proteus/1
Very simple; layers two ROM samples per voice, with a few tweakable parameters but nothing fancier than volume envelopes. But it's got some interesting presets (including a couple very nice Chris Squire-type bass sounds) and I've heard some great demos of what it can do when pushed.
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/6424/rolandjv880.jpg
Roland JV-880
Another layered-ROM-sample machine, but with four oscillators per voice, better samples, and a hell of a lot more tweaking potential :D
@commodorejohn: Nice catch on both rigs man! Are those stock pics, or were you lucky enough to get them like that?
Haven't much sampling gear myself, just the AKAI S3000XL, but my brother-in law has an E-mu e64 which is a great machine for its age. My 'main' synth is a JD-800.
Those are from vintagesynth.com; the Proteus is a bit battered (mostly the paint has flaked off the lettering,) but the Roland is actually in quite nice shape. They both work fine, anyway, so I can't complain :)
Yeah, I'm normally not a big fan of ROMpler-based synths (give me a subtractive synth with knobs to twiddle or an FM synth any day,) but I'm growing fonder of the ones that have some tweaking potential in the way they're layered/filtered, like these or my Korg 05/RW, or a hybrid model like the Roland MT-32/D-50 LA synthesis. It helps that a lot of these are old enough that they're not just a bland General MIDI box and nothing more, too...the samples have some character to them.