Re: WTD: Apple ][ Greengate DS:3 or similar

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Richard Kilpatrick wrote:

>Although I still have a hankering for a ROM 03 IIgs - quite badly - what 
>I really want, now that I am working with a very obscure drum machine 
>called an Inpulse One, is an Apple ][, //e or IIgs with the Greengate DS 
>sampling system. This was used to generate samples for many drum 
>machines including the Sequential Drumtraks, and may have been the 
>source for the AHB Inpulse One that I am desperate to get additional 
>sounds for!
>
>I have no idea of value; I can't spend fortunes on gear. I don't know 
>what the system did. But I'm curious.

If the Apple II was used to capture and format the samples, then
it is likely that they were at a relatively low sampling rate and
8-bit precision.  This means that they are easily captured by
virtually any modern computer, Mac or PC.

The main question is, what is the format of the samples required
to use them with the Impulse One?  It will probably be necessary
to write a small program to "massage" a sampled sound converted
to 8-bit, mono, x-kHz rate so that the drum machine can use it.

-michael

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