[sdiy] uLaw DACs in the modern era?

[Tom Wiltshire]

Yeah, I’m not sure swapping the EEPROMs counts as “able to take external samples”, although it’s literally true - you *could* put whatever you wanted in there if you’re willing to do the work of preparing the samples, converting to 8-bit u-Law and burning the EEPROMs.


> On 22 May 2018, at 11:46, paula at synth.net wrote:
> 
> Not sure what you mean by "take external samples", the LInndrum, Drumulator, and many others are fixed (unless you change the EPROMs).
> 
> Paula
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> On 2018-05-22 11:02, cheater00 cheater00 wrote:
>> Those drum machines take external samples, too.
>>   On Tue, 22 May 2018 11:00 , <[1]rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk> wrote:
>>     I suspect that a lot of the perceived "punch" in the sounds of early
>>     digital drum machines is down to the same sorts of processing
>>     applied to
>>     the acoustic drum recordings before sampling that we would apply to
>>     drums these days to obtain a more punchy and "produced" sound.�
>>     Namely,
>>     things like dynamic range compression with artistically chosen
>>     attack/release times, gating, dynamic EQ, etc.�  Oversights in the
>>     recording process like allowing a fair degree of clipping also make
>>     things sound a lot harder too.�  Heavy clipping is not uncommon in
>>     the
>>     samples of these early drum machines!
>>     -Richie,
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