OBERHEIM SYNTH

>Hi Dan,
>
>Really impressed with your work on the Roland MC tape formats, and I
>wish you every success with the Oberheim DSX one. I don't own a DSX,
>but your attempts to contact the guy who implemented it reminds me of a
>similar experience I had a few years ago. At the time I owned an E-mu
>SP-12, and I wanted to write a sample librarian for it. It implemented
>a sample dump, but it pre-dated the MIDI Sample Dump Standard. As with
>the E-mu Drumulator - which originally featured a serial interface that
>was almost like MIDI but not quite - the SP-12 had a sample dump format
>that was based on early drafts of the standard. The guy who had written
>the firmware was impossible to reach, and hadn't left any documentation
>behind when he left E-mu! Somewhat off topic, and I hope your quest is
>a little more fruitful :-)
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris

Hi Chris,

Yeah, this is synthesizer archeology!  ;-)

Dan
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