If I can do anything to help, as the DPX-1's oldest
fan, and probably most units owned too, I'll gladly
put in whatever I can.

MIDI sample dump gets the samples out OK in many
cases, but I couldn't figure out the mapping etc, so
gave up and bought eMax CDROM with similar samples
which can work in the EIIIxp I have, then into the
S3000, then K2000, job done. PC reads and write
Kurzweil to floppy, zip, HD and CDR. K2000 quite cheap
now and reliable too. Libraries load into newer
Kurzweils if you can afford them.

The mac software Sound Designer did look at EII stuff
I think, and I did collect old macs and have the Sound
Designer cards, but never made it work. I could offer
that to someone with more time and enthusiasm. There's
a mac IIci that would be about right for it I think,
and all the peripheral mon, mouse, kbd, CDR drive, and
even SoundTools Hardware thrown in. No shipping, got
to be collection from London. Quick, free antique
gear! I must be mad!
No I'm serious it's going.

Taking a more modern and probably more valid route,
Chicken Sytems have mentioned trying to read EII CDROM
files as a possible future area of work for their
Translator P{ro of son of, and although the DPX1
really wants to see floppies I think, unless someone
has tackled and unlocked the almost unique CDROM
interface, we may need Hi-tech help.

I also have a large floppy library, mostly of EII 5
1/4 floppies and DPX1 copies of these, and as
previously mentioned, all three Universe of Sounds
CDROM, and the hardware required, so samples do exist
in Europe already, and almost certainly in the US too.
It was all we had and good work was done by the best
talent.

Again, good luck.
..


--- somethingkillingyou < somethingkillingyou@... >
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> my DPX-1 is now resurrected, and I was thinking
> myself to set up a
> dedicated user group...
>
> the "goals" will be:
>
> -to format disks (with a PC) in ANY format that the
> DPX-1 plays
> (except EII which is impossible...)
> -to write sound disks in those formats
> -to use midi sample dump correctly
> -to share our knowledges and sound banks
> -OS updates
>
> ...everything we can do with a DPX-1!
>
> the DPX-1 is a powerful tool!
> with some work, we could unleash the power behind
> its shortcoming...
>
> we just need some extra (working) tool, like right
> softwares...
>
>
> Fabio
>
>
>

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