The return of ampfea.org ..

[Mikael Hansson]

Yup, though I guess you meant something smaller than a GB as it was max 128 MB...but as you say, a program with many small samples took forever to load.

/Micke

> On 18 Jan 2022, at 19:22, moron <moron at industrial.org> wrote:
> 
> The A3K sadly has internal hardware limitations that greatly limit its
> SCSI transfer rates.  
> 
> It's a wonderful and very fun creative sampler but is burdened with
> attrocious load / save times compared to other hardware samplers from
> that period.  If memory serves, it took somewhere around 3 to 5 minutes
> for me to load a gig's worth of samples and I tended to use mostly
> short mono samples.     
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ron
> 
> On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 11:09 -0700, Matt Seil wrote:
>> So I obviously haven't used it, but:
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.vintagecomputercenter.com/product/rascsi
>> 
>> 
>> It's a SCSI adapter that lets you plug in a raspberry pi.  So, if
>> it's 
>> like my Kurzweil, it'll read/write as fast as the attached drive. 
>> ZIP 
>> quick.  Compact flash is slow.
>> 
>> Unless the A3K was already slow via SCSI.  That might be a hardware 
>> limitation based on the processor.  (Can't get around that.)
>> 
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