I don't know why many consider $50 to $150
as "heavily overpriced" for ROMs.....that is still less than the original price
for those ROMs and certainly worth it for about 500 new samples that are based
in a hardware ROM, plus some presets to boot. There are plenty of ROMs for
less than $130 out there and I would not wait on your music on the hope of
something a few dollars cheaper, even if reusable/reloadable. When the
universal Flash SIMM is available, it will be just one more tool, not the
only tool. And there still needs to be beta tested prototypes on the
Universal Flash SIMMs and software to load and translate common
files and that seems still a while away....
I paid about $50 for my last Xtreme Lead
ROM and that has plenty of material to work with....Emu has put much time and
effort in squeezing so many samples into the 32MB. I have Flash ROMs with
my own sounds using the Emu Flash SIMM and an Ultra sampler but have only been
able to put a small fraction of the number of samples into the 32MB space so I
still predominately use the commercial ROMs. There is so much processing
available in the P2000/Command Station series that 2 people can use the same
sample and create an entirely different sound and
atmosphere....
Bob
El Segundo, CA
----- Original Message -----From: BrunoSent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 10:35Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: FLASH SIMM2011/1/2 rweidne <kazukoric@...>:
> pardon my newbieishness, if this is a way of getting a hold of more rom sounds on my px-7 (currently with the single rom chip) i am interested.....
You can get more ROM sounds just by buying more ROMs - mostly on ebay,
and most of the time they are heavily overpriced. There is also a
possibility of "burning" your own Flash ROM using the E-mu Ultra
samplers and E-mu proprietary Flash ROMs (if case the previous method
was not expensive enough).
The advantage of USB-Flash would be to put it once and emulate up to
four ROMs, as well as swapping the ROM content of your device without
opening the case.
Bruno