Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:18:28 MET+1
From: Ulrich Reiter <REITER@aps.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi Ben !

I just read your Answer to Chris' question on PCM-expansion with the WS.

2.Is it possible, by hook or by crook, to create some PCM cards from samples to expand its waveform resources?

A much discussed question: basically, no. Unless you happen to have 50 grand knocking about the place...

That's not the whole truth. I own a Double Dutch SAM-1 sample expander which emulates PCM cards. I bought it second hand and I paid about 500 DM, that's about US $ 350. Though the manufacturer has gone under, there are still some in stock at the dutch distributor

Zadok Productions. I only called them last week to ask about a software update (which does not exist) and a memory expansion from 512 kB to 1 MB (which is also still in stock and costs about 400 Nfl, about US$ 300). Ialso asked for the price of a new SAM-1 and they told me it was about 1700 Nfl, that is more or less US$ 1000.

Okay, it is expensive, right, but I don't want to miss that thing.

Ciao, Uli

Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:36:55 MET+1
From: Ulrich Reiter <REITER@aps.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: SAM-1
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Hi everybody !!!

Joseph Beckitt wrote:

I am interested in some info on the SAM-1 device. I remember from a few previous posts (which I didn't keep) that it connected a computer to the PCM slot (tell me if I'm wrong). Is it possible to operate the SAM-1 device without being connected to a computer (ie on a gig!)??? I have been wanting a cheap sampler for a while (no money!) and this device might be the perfect solution (if it is portable)

Thanks in advance for replies!

The SAM-1 is a 19" wide and 1 RU high rack mount device which connects through the PCM-slot with the Wavestation. It is absolutely stand alone and features a HD-floppy-disk-drive. It can read Akai-Disks and some more formats, and it can be fed via MIDI Sample Dump Standard. It has 512 kB of memory on board, that is half the space available on a commercial PCM-Card, but as I mentioned earlier it can be expanded to 1MB of RAM. That means it can be operated without any computer, in fact as far as I can see there is no possibility to connect a computer (well, via MIDI of course...).

But I think you are also looking for a sampler, and this is what the SAM-1 cannot do. If you want to use self-sampled waveforms in your Wavestation, you will have to buy an additional sampler (there is one very cheap from Peavey, I think).

And by the way, the SAM-1 connects both ways via MIDI to the Wavestation, so you will also need a MIDI-merger or even better a patchbay, because I've always had problems with SysEx-Data and mergers.

Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 11:55:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Perkowitz (map@cs.washington.edu)
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Subject: Re: Romulator?
 

I just checked the music machines (http://www.hyperreal.com/machines/) site and there is indeed some info there on the SAM-1, by Zadok in the Netherlands... lets you load samples into its ROM and plugs into the WS PCM slot. The SAM-1 could read disks or accept SDS sample dumps.

I say "could" because I remember reading here that they had folded. Contact info:

Zadok Products

PO Box 1192

2260BD Leidshendam

The Netherlands

tel: 31-70-3.200.209

fax: 31-70-3.200.345