[sdiy] OT: Do you guys know what's going on on eBay?

[Blandon Ray]

The DSS-1 is great. It's really more a synth than a sampler: it can
make a lot of the same sounds as the DW8000, plus the tiny "samples"
you get from the disks, and it even lets you "draw" your own
single-cycle waves with the slider. But the real kicker for me was the
twin digital delays, whose delay time can be set in milliseconds, or
swept by two dedicated LFOs, and they can be hooked up in series OR
parallel for all sorts of bizarre flanging/chorus type effects.

Someday I'm going to build a delay unit like that in a box by
itself... that's the DIY connection.

Seems like you can find DSS-1's all over for peanuts; the only reason
I sold mine was because it was too big to move to a new home. I guess
that's the same reason a lot of them get sold.

Blandon


On 6/15/05, nN AAt     e     e <timexheater at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Scott, you should trade up if you like the 6000.
> > The 8000 will sear your ears right off. It's got
> > some of the best organs, basses and leads on
> > the planet.... Very underrated....
> 
> yeah... the DW8000's fraternal twin, the sampling DSS-1, is a nice one
> too... some GREAT sounds... the delays are amazing and it's a very warm
> synth, but the disk drive is pretty slow and it weighs a TON; it's no CS-80,
> but when i first got it i was 16 and couldn't get it up the stairs into my
> room!
> 
> i recently had to pay someone back $200 after i drove an hour to meet him,
> he brought the DSS-1 home, and when he tried it out it didn't recognize ANY
> disks. some how within about 48 hours of me testing it, the disk drive
> managed to burn out a cap by it's power connector :\   i doubt it was on my
> end and i know his apartment's electricity is all wonky [i also heard his
> guitarist talking about dropping something after taking it out of the car...
> i wonder what he could have been talking about]... i even replaced the cap
> and it still wouldn't work... but i didn't find anything else wrong with it.
> synth works fine, drive won't spin up.
> 
> so now i've got to replace the drive, and then find someone to unload this
> thing onto :(    [any takers?]
> 
> - nate... if i don't go for a Bass Station i'm looking at pretty cheap,
> maybe i'll take a look at a DW-8000 :)
> 
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