well, basically i start to back up or deleting them because internal memory ends rapidly; so i tend to load internal memory with short samples (drums & things etc)and, for example, i do the pitch scale or the chop functions and i clipboard the samples on the card memory...
anyone knows if it's possible to delete banks 1-4? i know, i questioned that yet other times, but who knows, maybe someone have found some tip to unprotect the samples to free those banks...




the su200 interested me too at the beginnig, because its concept is intriguing on paper:a cheap power battery sampler with full fx, a ribbon, .wav import/export etc...
...but reality is more sad: when you use fx the bpm of almost all types of samples is diveded in 2 or you can only use fx with samples of very low quality...plus, you don't have even a primitive sequencer, even the su10 got one (!)...in this case i think that the sp-202 is better...maybe the su200 was projected to go with the an200 or the dx200 yamaha synths/grooveboxes...
i repeat, it's a pity, but this machine is not very useful...

no, no, sorry if i wasn't clear: i don't mean the samples, i mean the PATTERNS (or sequences, or whatever they're called on the 505). basically you have (i think) 99 spaces for beats to be saved, doesn't matter what card you have in there, those User Sequences remain on the box.

I'm trying to find a way to back those up, or clear them out. but i guess i gotta just delete them?

yes i think.
if not i don't see other way.

up fauna if you go to the system page by pushing the system button and hitting card then save then patterns ithink it is... you can choose a backup slot to save all the patterns to.

also ellaguru the su700 is amazing. they make a card reader for it !
it can record in true 8 bit 11 kHz and therefor save lots of samples to a single floppy. so I never really minded using them but I honestly have two huge boxes full of smaller disk boxes full of su700 and s20 beats. it would be great to throw a whole box on a memory card.

sorry for my O.T. ....
the su700...



normally a 2HD floppy disk can contain only 1,44mb, so, i'm not able to save many samples with my akai remix 16 (pay attention, i don't have the memory increased on this)...how do you do that?



is it easy to insall this? it would be cool to have one su700 with a card reader...

the mpc was cool but you needed a SCSI drive of some type in order to use it because it recorded everything in cd quality which takes up a lot of space.

as far as upgradeing the memory on the remix16 goes like the s20 and most other older samplers that can be upgraded it takes 72 pin simms ram you can get it cheap. the remix16 can have 17 megs of ram total so if you put a 32 meg stck of ram in the empty slot the screen will read r17 when you turn it on. but that doesn't change the fact that a disk only holds under 2 megs

right, right....i forgot about that. i haven't ever tried to recall saved stuff either, so that'll be a trick.

good looking out tho, i'll read up on it.

thx ormo.

there are some mpc 2000xl with cf card reader (but, yes, they're expensive)



yes, i could do this upgrading, but the problem is to find a scsi cable+zi reader etcetc...

does the remix16 have a scsi port?

wow the s20 has no such port.

the ram though to increase the memory on your remix 16 is very very cheap.

yes, the remix 16 have this option. you have to install an IB-16s scsi interface. i neverd tried that indeed. i use only floppy disks.

the "cheap" ram you said is easy to find/install? is the 72-pin SIMM, right?

yeah just go on ebay and type in 72 pin simms and get like one stick of 16megs or more.

ok.
but maybe the IB-16s scsi interface it's hard (and expensive) to find.
i will see.

back to the original topic of this thread... which was about bringing the 505 on a trip and it was all that was needed plus some dad records.

I'm on a trip right now with my girl and her sister we went to NYC and now were in MA. so went and sampled a bunch of long phrases from some new records (3 banks full)

and I took it on the road with us slowly I've been going through and remembering all the shit I recorded and choppin it and just gettin down with this one box and those banks of shit I recorded before we bounced.

I love this sampler more every time fuck with it

ahah
good to hear.