[sdiy] Oberheim Matrix 6r ROM image needed

[Terry Shultz]

Hi Martin,

No problem, Just happy to reach out to my audio friends on the synth web.

Garth over at Chicken Systems quizzed me on this at Namm a few years back.

Wonder if he made any head way??

If I can get my Audity computer back to working condition, I am sure I have just a ton of E-Prom Bin files on my 8 inch drive disk.

Paul Morte at PMTS put much of that on my computer when I left it at his shop for a couple of years.

Getting it back off is a challenge I think as most of my Zilog based equipment has not been used for over 10 years.

Yet another project for me.

best always,

Terry
On Aug 21, 2014, at 2:20 AM, Martin Fay <martin at martinfay.com> wrote:

> Hi Terry,
> 
> This has reminded me that you've posted about the move to PPG before. I wasn't trying to fish, just thought you might like to know people are still using E-mu kit! I guess you know there is software EMXP which deals with E2 disks and appears to be an active community of users?
> 
> (in fact EMXP deals with E1 to E3X and Emax 1/2, is free as in beer but not open source. I don't think that's ideal for the interest of preservation, the E4/ESI stuff I'm doing will be open sourced.)
> 
> Martin
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 20 Aug 2014, at 19:14, Terry Shultz <thx1138 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Martin,
>> 
>> I left E-Mu in 1984 to work in Hamburg, Germany with Wolfgang Palm on newer PPG products and that concluded in 1985 when, PPG was going into bankruptcy proceedings. I was at Motorola-Freescale for nearly 28 years responsible for the DSP56K family of devices foer Consumer, ProAudio and Industrial applications.
>> 
>> Sorry, I don't have any archived material after 1984 time frame.
>> 
>> best regards,
>> 
>> Terry
>> 
>> On 8/20/2014 9:17 AM, Martin Fay wrote:
>>> Hi Terry,
>>> 
>>> Did you stay at E-mu into the E3 era and beyond? I have an E4K and have been reverse engineering disk and file formats aiming to make it more practical to move data around. I've seen that E3 CDs have the single folder name set to "Designed by S&M." don't suppose you know who that might be?
>>> 
>>> (I've been able to create E4 bank files from a bunch of wav samples, and read the content of E3 onward disk images so far)
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 20 Aug 2014, at 15:03, Terry Shultz <thx1138 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> FYI,
>>>> 
>>>> When I was designing the Emulator II at Emu , I built my own E-Prom Programmer using an Audity CPU board we had for our Dev.
>>>> system. The Drumulator, Emulator 1 & 2 eproms were programmed on a Home made e-prom programmer that was wire-wrapped and built into the Audity CPU platform.
>>>> 
>>>> I built about 6 Audity CPU systems for Office and Engineering use but only one made it into the Synth.
>>>> 
>>>> The Audity CPU board was a clone of the Zilog ZDS-120 RIO development system.
>>>> 
>>>> Just thought you guys might like to know a bit o’ history on the Emulator.
>>>> 
>>>> By the way, the Emulator 1 & 2 were also based on the ZDS 120  RIO system too.
>>>> 
>>>> just my 2 cents.
>>>> 
>>>> Terry
>>>> On Aug 20, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Roman Sowa wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> wait a couple of years and even samplers will be considered as "that vintage sound". Wait, it happens now with MPC...
>>>>> 
>>>>> The E-mu II is pretty high on that list, I'd say, but admittedly it defined the sound of an entire era.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Microchip claims 200 years data retention in their eproms.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But only when programmed with "authorized" programmers, which means something in the Data I/O range, not GALEP, and of course not some crude DIY programmer offering 50ms "slow but secure" and "program/read back until the bits stick" algorithms.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rainer
>>>>> 
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