Anyone collect antique sound cards? What would be considered a "Classic?" Here's my list: E-Mu/Digidesign MacProteus - NuBus card for Mac, a whole Proteus sound module on a card. One of the all time classic synthesizer modules. E-Mu Drumulator - Early 80's drum machine with computer (Apple II!) interface Gravis UltraSound - Enough said... Digidesign Samplecell - Sampler card, I've always wanted to play with one of these. Ensoniq SoundScape - Early hardware wavetable card. 68000 controlled (had to load the firmware from DOS before booting into Linux to get it to work) Nice sounding samples for it's time. Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 - The old standard, now superceeded by AC'97. MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum - An early SoundBlaster competitor, arguably much better quality sound output My collection: Ensoniq SoundScape ISA - The original model Ensoniq AudioPCI - ES1370 model, interesting because you can use SoundBlaster PCI64 drivers with it, it's the same card :) MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16 NuBus - One of the first Mac sound cards, cool breakout box with PC joystick port Creative Labs 3doBlaster - 3DO game console on an ISA card. No drivers or anything, but it's so wierd it's cool. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Van Mersbergen, Ken" <KVanMersbergen(a)randmcnally.com> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: WTB: Roland SCC 1 GS MIDI Card > Hello- > > I am looking for a Roland SCC 1 GS MIDI Card. This is an 8 bit ISA card > that was made in 1991. > > I had one but it no longer works. > > Let me know if anyone has one they are willing to part with. > > -Ken V. > > > *************************************************************** > This E-mail is confidential. It should not be read, copied, disclosed or > used by any person other than the intended recipient. Unauthorized use, > disclosure or copying by whatever medium is strictly prohibited and may be > unlawful. If you have received this E-mail in error, please contact the > sender immediately and delete the E-mail from your system. > *************************************************************** >

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, The Design Fort DTP wrote: Well, I was going to ask about this on here at some point, but is there anyone on the list familiar with guts of Yamaha's DX7 II-FD? A number of years ago, one of my co-workers dumped her dead DX7 on me. It's been dragged across the country once and stored up in my attic for a while, until the last week or so. The initial symptoms were that none of its buttons worked and it failed to generate any sound. Inside I found a small and very dead battery soldered to the board which holds the main processors and memory. After soldering in a proper battery holder and replacing the battery, the synth lit up very happily once I powered it on. All the front buttons seem to work, and I can choose between the numerous available patches, but still there's no sound. At least I'm not able to get anything out of the headphone jack or the two audio jacks on the back of the keyboard. Does anyone happen to have any additional adice for me or schematics for this fellow? -brian.

Thanks for this post. I think that the impact of early computer technology in music is widely underestimated.

"Old" Synths like the Roland D-50, the Kawai K1 or the Korg M1 still fetch great prices on ebay and are a pleasure to use.

I've have a couple soundblaster Pro's (CT1350Bs I think), Several variations of SoundBlaster 16, the soundblaster wavetable add-on board for the 16, a Gravis Ultrasound PnP, a couple MS Windows Sound System cards, and a "Game Blaster" card. Most my SB16s are in PCs since they work well enough for modern stuff and work with "classic" PC games that want a Sound Blaster or AdLib card. I would like to have an AdLib card, but have not run into any. Paul On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 13:02, Jason McBrien wrote: > Anyone collect antique sound cards? What would be considered a

> > Here's my list: > E-Mu/Digidesign MacProteus - NuBus card for Mac, a whole Proteus sound > module on a card. One of the all time classic synthesizer modules. > E-Mu Drumulator - Early 80's drum machine with computer (Apple II!) > interface > Gravis UltraSound - Enough said... > Digidesign Samplecell - Sampler card, I've always wanted to play with

> these. > Ensoniq SoundScape - Early hardware wavetable card. 68000 controlled

> load the firmware from DOS before booting into Linux to get it to work)

> sounding samples for it's time. > Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 - The old standard, now superceeded by

> MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum - An early SoundBlaster competitor,

> much better quality sound output > > My collection: > Ensoniq SoundScape ISA - The original model > Ensoniq AudioPCI - ES1370 model, interesting because you can use > SoundBlaster PCI64 drivers with it, it's the same card :) > MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16 NuBus - One of the first Mac sound

> cool breakout box with PC joystick port > Creative Labs 3doBlaster - 3DO game console on an ISA card. No drivers

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Jason McBrien wrote: Very cool. Does it have it's own Apple ][ card? Is it MIDI? -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer

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