The return of ampfea.org ..

[Niall Munnelly]

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?

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 9:28 AM Matt Seil <xeno6696 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't worry.  I jumped on the opportunity like a fat kid on the truffle
> shuffle!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.)
>
> I will gladly help with testing.
>
>
>
> On 1/18/2022 12:00 AM, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>
> 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 ..
>
> j.
>
>
> On 17.01.2022, at 22:30, deeplfo <deeplfo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> cheers,
> Mohsen
>
>
>
> On Sunday, January 16, 2022, 02:47:36 PM PST, Matt Seil <
> xeno6696 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I honestly forgot that you were responsible for ampfea.org.  I bet
> that's exactly how I found out about the 'bar!  :-)
>
> Looks like you competed with me to get the A3k someone else was
> selling.  I had no idea how cool that box was until that post and I
> started researching it.  If I ever stumble upon one--I will.
>
> (No worries.  I had money in my pocket and used it to get a Nymphes
> which should be here tomorrow!)
>
> I'm currently learning my new Squarp Pyramid.
>
>
> On 1/16/2022 2:07 PM, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> > Well, I thought that some of you -bar’ians would find it interesting to
> know that I finally got back control over the ampfea.org 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.)
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > j.
> > —
> > Jay Vaughan
> > ibisum at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
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> j.
> —
> Jay Vaughan
> ibisum at gmail.com
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Yours,
Niall.
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