<div dir="auto">I never used any of the Yamaha samplers, but I remember the EX-5 (?) workstation getting rave reviews when that came out. Reading Jay’s email, I gather there are some hoops to jump through if one wants to use this with current computers?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 9:28 AM Matt Seil <<a href="mailto:xeno6696@gmail.com">xeno6696@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
  
    
  
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    <p>Don't worry.  I jumped on the opportunity like a fat kid on the
      truffle shuffle!  <br>
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    <p>After I started learning more about the A3k, it brought back
      memories of being a high school kid who only had an Alesis SR-16,
      staring at the synths and samplers in Musician's Friend catalog. 
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    <p>Nostalgia aside, it was a very good time to be alive for sampler
      development.  You had the A3K, then within a couple years, Akai
      S5k, EMU6400, with Roland dropping out to just do the XV-5080.  <br>
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    <p>Supposedly the A3k's biggest pain was setting loop points because
      of the tiny display.  I don't think it can be any worse than doing
      the same thing on a Model:Samples.  (You're not supposed to use it
      as a phrase device but knob controls for sample start/end is too
      tempting.)  <br>
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    <p>I will gladly help with testing.  <br>
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    <div>On 1/18/2022 12:00 AM, Jay Vaughan
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      Oh man, please keep the A3k’s in the -bar family if possible.  I’m
      about to launch a new attempt to getting the Yamaha SFS driver
      from Disky to work in the RaSCSI, and I’d love to have some
      -bar’ians helping with testing ..
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            <div>On 17.01.2022, at 22:30, deeplfo <<a href="mailto:deeplfo@gmail.com" target="_blank">deeplfo@gmail.com</a>>
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                  <div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">I know
                    this is tangential, but just wanted to let you guys
                    know that I have a nice super clean A3K sitting in a
                    box in storage, that I'm more than happy to part
                    with.</div>
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                  <div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Matt, are
                    you in the US?  DM me if interested.  As I mentioned
                    I am happy to part with it, so I just need to cover
                    shipping :-)  Otherwise it'll be in a box of a few
                    other things that I may be donating to the high
                    school my boys went to here in San Fran.</div>
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                  <div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">cheers,</div>
                  <div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Mohsen</div>
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                    <div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> On Sunday, January 16, 2022, 02:47:36
                      PM PST, Matt Seil <<a href="mailto:xeno6696@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">xeno6696@gmail.com</a>>
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                      <div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">I honestly forgot that you
                        were responsible for <a href="http://ampfea.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">ampfea.org</a>.  I bet
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                        that's exactly how I found out about the 'bar! 
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                        Looks like you competed with me to get the A3k
                        someone else was <br clear="none">
                        selling.  I had no idea how cool that box was
                        until that post and I <br clear="none">
                        started researching it.  If I ever stumble upon
                        one--I will.<br clear="none">
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                        (No worries.  I had money in my pocket and used
                        it to get a Nymphes <br clear="none">
                        which should be here tomorrow!)<br clear="none">
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                        I'm currently learning my new Squarp Pyramid.<br clear="none">
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                        On 1/16/2022 2:07 PM, Jay Vaughan wrote:<br clear="none">
                        > Well, I thought that some of you -bar’ians
                        would find it interesting to know that I finally
                        got back control over the <a href="http://ampfea.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">ampfea.org</a> domain,
                        and due to popular request by the Yamaha
                        A-sampler user group, I am currently restoring
                        the old a3kcentral/samplelibrary/teklab/ampfea
                        file archive to the new server.  (Not gonna
                        restore the .php code though..  Just the files.)<br clear="none">
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                        > I hope to have it uploaded this week and
                        wrapped in a static site for us all to enjoy  ..
                        there was some great stuff in that archive at
                        one time, and especially the A-sampler users out
                        there are going to enjoy having access to some
                        of the old .a3k files again .. not to mention a
                        lot of stuff from the very early days of
                        music-bar/teklab that should bring back a few
                        fond memories .. stay tuned!<br clear="none">
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                        > Jay Vaughan<br clear="none">
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yours,</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Niall.</span></div>