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no offense taken. I was just throwing my opinion out there. My other issue also with the homebrew roms is the fact that someone else has control over the sounds. Imagine one of "us" does pull off burning roms somehow. Now that person is selling a burnt SIMMs to people in this yahoo group or on Ebay or whatever. Great. And say this person had the chops to pull off the mad scientist shit to do all this. This same person could have terrible taste in tones and voices. Here you go everyone... "rave sounds" for you all electronica folks. What?$%!! If I wanted cheesy unuseful sounds I would use my XL-7 stick. It';s like they had the ability to burn the sticks but just unfortunately to only put out more cheese out there for sale. Now if there was a way a person could send in a CDR of 200 tones/voices in wave format or FTP them somewhere than I would be interested. I would have some control there. But just kicking out more passe tones that would fit in the late 90's doesn't really stoke me to be honest. Does this make sense? It9;s just my thoughts on all this so far.

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, duncan <goddard.duncan@...>; wrote:

james- no offence, but an enthusiastic market for this technology is established here, & your own mileage is plainly achieved on a different sort of fuel.

I started using the proteus flash simms when an emu hardware sampler (w/ syquest cartridges) let me down on the eve of a trip to the US. I have never looked back. in fact, I got started on this approach by burning flash cards for an alesis s4+. anyone who's tried that will understand that some people will not be put off by any amount of work if they can have unique sounding instruments.

so, the allure of having your own sounds sitting behind your favourite synth engine & UI is a powerful one. I do use samplers, but they are bolted into the rack in the studio. when a new sound is designed & sampled, I can have a solid-state version in the live-rig without worrying about whether the hard-drive has survived the trip in the back of some rust-bucket transit van.

sadly, emu didn9;t market the flash simm approach very well, & eventually wound up their hardware business, leaving those of us that invested in it searching ebay for scarce parts.
that someone here has shown enough enterprise &; enthusiasm (not to mention ingenuity) to find another way to get custom sounds into the p2k synth engine is proof enough that there's a small but real demand.

I'll keep doing it this way until waldorf fix the damn blofeld properly & make a rack version with same/higher spec as the p2k.

d.

Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Re: [xl7] Re: Still a call for blank ROMs?

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