Roland S760 Sampler
S760 trick
If you need to bolster up the bottom of a kick even if it's in a loop try the following in an S760: Having sampled your kick/loop and assigned it to a partial aply a High Pass filter ( bare with me - I know this seems wrong ) to the loop, drop the frequency of the cuttoff so the sample sounds unaffected, crank the resonance to about 33% and start to bring the cutoff gradually up from the depths and the S760 filters will 'inflate' the lowest frequencies of the sample...depending on the amount of resonance you can get woofer blowing bottom end as it starts to add sine wave frequencies to the cuttoff point selected... just a superb thing... transforms a very vanilla drum loop into a banging remixed ghetto shaking Mo FO !
Disk Dump Files into floppies
On FreeBSD, you can easily dump and restore floppy disk image files by using the basic commands. You may find the similar methods on Linux, NetBSD, BSD/OS, and other PC UNIXes. The important point is to find out the appropriate settings of the density of the floppy disk media. See man dd(1), fdc(4) and fdformat(1) for the further details.
How to Read/Write a 720k Floppy Disk (image file name: waves760.sdk)
How to Read/Write a 720k Floppy Disk (image file name: waves760.sdk)
- Formatting: fdformat /dev/rfd0.720
- Reading from: dd if=/dev/rfd0.720 bs=18k > waves760.sdk
- Writing to: dd if=waves760.sdk of=/dev/rfd0.720 bs=18k
- Formatting: fdformat /dev/rfd0.1440
- Reading from: dd if=/dev/rfd0.1440 bs=18k > s760-223.sdk
- Writing to: dd if=s760-223.sdk of=/dev/rfd0.1440 bs=18k
Disk Dump Files into HDDs
Roland S760 Midi CC controlled
> Volume and filter cutoff can be controlled via CCs. Go to Patch/
> Control (assuming you have a CRT monitor). In the lower half of the
> screen there's a modulation matrix. Here you can set the sensitivity
> for (Pitch) Bender, Aftertouch and Ctrl controlling TVF (cutoff
> frequency) and TVA (volume).
> The controller source "Ctrl" can be assigned to any MIDI CC# from 0
> to 95 in the upper half of the screen.
>
> Filter resonance cannot be controlled directly via MIDI CC. As a
> workaround, I once layered several patches with different resonance
> settings (otherwise they were identical), and crossfaded between them.
> Control (assuming you have a CRT monitor). In the lower half of the
> screen there's a modulation matrix. Here you can set the sensitivity
> for (Pitch) Bender, Aftertouch and Ctrl controlling TVF (cutoff
> frequency) and TVA (volume).
> The controller source "Ctrl" can be assigned to any MIDI CC# from 0
> to 95 in the upper half of the screen.
>
> Filter resonance cannot be controlled directly via MIDI CC. As a
> workaround, I once layered several patches with different resonance
> settings (otherwise they were identical), and crossfaded between them.
Burn Roland format Sample CDs from images on a Mac
So perhaps you've figured out that AKAI, EMU, ROLAND, KURTZWEIL sample CD images can't be read on a Mac, can't be mounted on a Mac, and can't be burned on a Mac with the usual included utilities like diskutil or hdiutil, But you'd still like be able to burn your sampler's CD images without the hassle of emulating a PC to use raw CD burning software.
If you want to save some cash on buying programs to do this for you, Macports or Homebrew really come in handy. Use either one to install a UNIX utility called 'cdrdao' by opening a Terminal window and invoking the command:
brew install cdrdao
(homebrew), or
sudo port install cdrdao
(macports)
Then, once cdrdao is installed, change it to the directory of your Akai CD image. If you're using a .bin/.cue file image you can burn your CD simply by using the following command:
cdrdao write image_name.cue
Where "image_name" is obviously replaced with the name of your image file. Also, the .bin and .cue files have to be in the same location.
If you're using a .iso file, it's not that much more difficult. Just create a .toc file by typing:
nano image_name.toc
Once in the Nano text editor, enter the following text:
CD_ROM
TRACK MODE1
DATAFILE "image_name.iso"
Making sure to preserve the quotes in the example - they're necessary for the .toc file - but again, replacing "image_name" with the name of your Akai disk image.
Hit CTRL-X to exit, and hit 'Y' for yes to save, and then type:
cdrdao write image_name.toc
For an iso file, you may need to add the --driver generic-mmc-raw option, by typing:
cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc-raw image_name.toc
But I would recommend you try burning your CD without it at first. Then try it if you get an "ERROR: Drive does not accept any cue sheet variant" response.
If you're having trouble getting these commands to work, you may want to check to make sure your CD-R drive is ready by typing:
cdrdao scanbus
If you wish to use a different drive than the one automatically mapped by cdrdao, or other features, check out the cdrdao manual page, or type 'man cdrdao' at your terminal prompt.
An additional tip: You can use diskutil (GUI) to eject your disk even if it is not showing up in the finder (as Akai SCDs don't show up anywhere in the finder since they can't be mounted by the Mac file system).
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Using Toast to burn Sampler-format CDs:
Note -- If you want to go the pay software route, you CAN use Toast. It's DEFINITELY easy, but I don't think it's as fun ;) Here's how:
1) Open Toast and go to disc copy
2) De-select 'fit-to-DVD video compression'
3) Choose image file you want to burn
Toast will prompt you saying that it doesn't know what format the image file is. I'm guessing you're certain you want to burn the disc, so choose "continue"
4) use '0' for both pre and post gap, and '2048' for sector size
5) Hit the ominous red button in the bottom left hand of the window
Jolly burning!
If you want to save some cash on buying programs to do this for you, Macports or Homebrew really come in handy. Use either one to install a UNIX utility called 'cdrdao' by opening a Terminal window and invoking the command:
brew install cdrdao
(homebrew), or
sudo port install cdrdao
(macports)
Then, once cdrdao is installed, change it to the directory of your Akai CD image. If you're using a .bin/.cue file image you can burn your CD simply by using the following command:
cdrdao write image_name.cue
Where "image_name" is obviously replaced with the name of your image file. Also, the .bin and .cue files have to be in the same location.
If you're using a .iso file, it's not that much more difficult. Just create a .toc file by typing:
nano image_name.toc
Once in the Nano text editor, enter the following text:
CD_ROM
TRACK MODE1
DATAFILE "image_name.iso"
Making sure to preserve the quotes in the example - they're necessary for the .toc file - but again, replacing "image_name" with the name of your Akai disk image.
Hit CTRL-X to exit, and hit 'Y' for yes to save, and then type:
cdrdao write image_name.toc
For an iso file, you may need to add the --driver generic-mmc-raw option, by typing:
cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc-raw image_name.toc
But I would recommend you try burning your CD without it at first. Then try it if you get an "ERROR: Drive does not accept any cue sheet variant" response.
If you're having trouble getting these commands to work, you may want to check to make sure your CD-R drive is ready by typing:
cdrdao scanbus
If you wish to use a different drive than the one automatically mapped by cdrdao, or other features, check out the cdrdao manual page, or type 'man cdrdao' at your terminal prompt.
An additional tip: You can use diskutil (GUI) to eject your disk even if it is not showing up in the finder (as Akai SCDs don't show up anywhere in the finder since they can't be mounted by the Mac file system).
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Using Toast to burn Sampler-format CDs:
Note -- If you want to go the pay software route, you CAN use Toast. It's DEFINITELY easy, but I don't think it's as fun ;) Here's how:
1) Open Toast and go to disc copy
2) De-select 'fit-to-DVD video compression'
3) Choose image file you want to burn
Toast will prompt you saying that it doesn't know what format the image file is. I'm guessing you're certain you want to burn the disc, so choose "continue"
4) use '0' for both pre and post gap, and '2048' for sector size
5) Hit the ominous red button in the bottom left hand of the window
Jolly burning!