Re: OT: Drum machine eprom question..

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

fwiw I recently gave away an old Oberheim Prommer to Mike Quinn's 
electronics in Oakland. This is a product from the 70's that 
addressed this idea. It even had an analog input so you could sample 
directly to an EPROM, what a concept. I think it may have been able 
to deal with chips from Simmons and Linn boxes as well as Oberheim.

I imagine that thing is still over at Quinn's if anyone wants it. 
Quinn's is one of the quintessential electronics surplus places, 
you've been warned.

-Alex S.

At 5:07 PM -0500 6/7/02, Gary Phillips wrote:
>I'm not an electronic genius or programmer,
>just a dabbler and a power user...
>But.....
>Could anyone tell me why it is so difficult or why
>there are never any techniques mentioned for exchanging
>the sample rom chips in dedicated drum machines ?
>I've heard about eprom burners....is the sample data always
>very proprietary on different boxes, or is it just memory at
>a specific data rate and sample rate stuck on a  memory chip ?
>EI...I've got an old Yamaha RX11 that is a great machine but
>with a very dated soundset.....  is it totally not worth the effort
>to try to "burn your own" eproms ?  Anybody have any
>expertise in this area....?
>Curious in Memphis........
>--
>gary
>@friendlyspider.com