I just bought a USB eprom burner off the bay, so I'll be able to mess
around with "attempting" burning new sample eprom's soon.....

Too bad they aren't all jammed on one eprom, as that would make it ez
to use a larger size, and add switchable banks (by toggle the extra
address lines). I guess it makes it a little cool by them being
seperate, cause then you could have different soundset combos.... i'd
probably just do it to the interleaved ROMS (not crash & ride roms)...

Only problem is that large eproms & parallel SRAMS are expensive,
about 36 bucks a piece for battery backed 1mb SRAMS....but you could
fit quite a few sample banks on 'em (ie. 32). I don't know if Eproms
go up to that size

I know someone though email communication that understands how to
interleave samples on Eproms, i'll have to grab the visual basic
program he uses.

Ryan

--- In tr-707@yahoogroups.com , "acousmatique" <acousmatique@...> wrote:
>
> I was planning on ripping the sound SRAMs so that I could properly
decode the data and
> burn new sounds, but then I decided that it was too much hassle.
Except for the crash and
> ride cymbals, those are easy. I won't ever use the 707 sounds if I
rip them. Since I have
> wanted to make better clock controls I decided that the best thing
to do is bypass the
> whole "gate array" mess and simply reproduce the circuitry for the
cymbals for every other
> voice. This is a lot of new stuff, though - so I'll need to either
re-case or squeeze
> eerything onto a PCB. I am keen to try PCBs but I need a new printer
first, as mine died.
> Re-casing is a pain but cool since I can fit many other mods which I
simply don't have
> room for in there.
>
> This stuff is on hold with me until later in the spring. I am
working a lame 3rd shift job
> now and my garage workbench is frozen, so once it gets warmer out
there I'll get started
> again. I will desolder and rip all of the SRAMs sometime this year,
but I've had to put it off.
>
> I miss my modding!
>