--- On Mon, 1/25/10, duncan wrote:
From: duncan Subject: [xl7] Re: FLASH SIMM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 4:47 AM�jack- first up, I'm in.
I own several protues-family modules, a couple of ultra samplers, three 32MB flash roms & one 16MB.
previous to this, I had been burning flash pcmcia cards for alesis quadrasynth devices....
lately I have been using a blofeld desktop with the sample option. great sound, loads of memory.... but the hardware is limited (one stereo out, lousy effects) & the o/s is still flakey. the proteus remains the yardstick for me.
(anyone here used the triton to play samples?)
afaik, the ultra creates "basic" presets in the preset memory so that the proteus can find the samples as mapped by the ultra.
thus, if I go to a great deal of time & trouble to split my fifteen mellotron samples across the keyboard in a reasonably realistic way, the proteus keyboard mapping will be the same. I can then take that basic proteus preset & apply all sorts of proteus processing to it, & this is (for my money) where the proteus scores first against the ultra itself.... I know a lot of the same mod routings & patchcords exist in the ultra, but (here it would say "citation needed" if this was a wiki page) I find these things more comprehensively implemented in the proteus.
besides all that, I hate taking hard-drives on the road or on stage, having been bitten by this in the past. back-up removables are all well&good if the drive itself still works.... but the flash rom is way more reliable & quicker too.
if it adds anything useful to the discussion, I can play sounds from the flash rom in the ultra, but I don't think it's possible to copy any data off of them. I tried this with a couple of factory roms that seemed to have been made using flash memory (the expansion for the audity, for example), so I think your theory about the presentation of the data as a file structure is probably good.
duncan.