I'm trying to hook up my s-760 sampler to a regular PC using the adaptec 1505 hostadapter so I can send samples via SCSI. Win95 recognizes the adapter fine but I can't get the adapter to find the s-760.

Different SCSI devices (ZIP etc) are scanned and found without any problems so there's nothing wrong with the hostadapter.

I've also set the s-760 on host-ID #6 so there shouldn't be any conflicts with the adaptec SCSI card (which is set to ID #7). I also tried to scan from the s-760 but with no results.

Is there a setting in the s-760 i've missed?

Thanks!

It was my understanding that Windows 95/98 didn't support the S-760 (or Roland didn't support Windows 95/98). Either way, I have heard that Windows won't recognize it.

This is a bummer, as I purchased Steinberg Recycle and a SCSI card specifically to hook up with my S-760, and come to find out that the 760 isn't supported. Luckily I took back the SCSI card and I use Recycle with Cubase, so all is not lost. I just wish I could hook up the 760 for quick sample dumps with the computer.

I think it is a shame that Roland has abandoned support of their samplers. I am sorry to say, but you are out of luck.

Thank you for your reply. Yes, it seems SCSI transfer with the s-760 is quite limited on a PC. I did some research and found out that Recycle (up to version 1.6) is supposed to handle SCSI transfers (I haven't had the time to try it myself). To get it working you should install the ASPI drivers for DOS, make sure the WIN95 SCSI drivers are disabled and also check that the s-760 is connected to MIDI as well.

It's sad to hear that Recycle has dropped the SCSI support for the s-760 from version 1.7.

I'm sure that Steinberg dropped S-760 support from Recycle (1.7) because of the problems of getting Win9x to recognize it as well as the S-760 being pretty old now. I just sold mine a few weeks ago and bought a new E-mu E5000 Ultra. I had bought the S-760 back in 1994 and it had already been out for a year or 2 at that time. I, too, hated the fact that it was very difficult to hook up to a PC for SCSI sample dumps.

Anyway, I've heard some rumours that Roland will be releasing a super-sampler at NAMM later this month. Apparently they've been working on it for a few years now and will be a monster. Some of the features rumoured are: 128-voice polyphony, 256 Mb RAM, ability to pop in expansion boards from the JV-1080/2080 as well as load the samples from the ROM boards and manipulate the samples, some sort of COSM modelling technology. Of course these are rumours and these features may not ever come true.

I do know for a fact that Roland has been working on something though as a local Roland rep told me earlier in 1999 that Roland has been working on something. He could not tell me more than that (you know, sworn to secrecy). I liked my S-760 but needed something else that could load more samples, had more outputs, and more polyphony. If the new Roland sampler is the monster that rumours say, I'm sure that it will be quite expensive. They will, however, have to compete with E-mu and Akai in terms of price. I would expect though that the price will fall in somewhere around $3500-4000 US. Keep your eyes open at NAMM.

Fernando

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