looking round a car boot sale this morning i found a fully upgraded (turbo cpu and 16meg of ram) roland s770! there's even a 40meg (huge! :P) hard drive in there. it's a 3 unit rack and very very heavy. whahey!
it was over £5000 new back in 1989/90, there were rumoured to have been only 2000 made....
...and i bought it for £8... ;D bargain!
i love oldschool samplers and have been looking for one for a while. i used to love the sound my akai s900 before it died.
I wish I had the motivation to get up on a Sunday morning :D
Top find that! I have an S900, I hardly seem to use the bugger even though I love it :)
Might have preferred the 950, working with such a tiny amount of memory can be limiting but I love how lofi stuff sounds wen you start to cut the samplerate
Quote from: andy_wheels on November 12, 2006, 06:31:46 PM
looking round a car boot sale this morning i found a fully upgraded (turbo cpu and 16meg of ram) roland s770! there's even a 40meg (huge! :P) hard drive in there. it's a 3 unit rack and very very heavy. whahey!
thats not a lo-fi bit of kit in any respect
The S770 is probably the best sounding sampler ever made in my opinion. Rumour has it that it uses top end apogee A/D D/A convertors which is why they couldn't afford to make many. The DJ-70 is more or less the keyboard version and it sounds incredible.
oh, and you are a jammy bastard! ;)
Quote from: Circuitbenders on November 12, 2006, 08:28:22 PM
oh, and you are a jammy bastard! ;)
yeah, i've got jam coming out my ears, my nose... it's messy...
god, am i'm excited about this find... it's a dream come true for a sample whore like me ;D
i've just picked a msx mouse up from a local ebayer (another bit of luck that, msx mice are not easily found) and i'm now going to try getting the beast into my rack. i hope the rack can cope!
maybe you should spread the jamminess around and do car boot safaris for aspiring benders.
amazing find though, talk about jealous.
Not quite the league as Andy's find but I found a pss-100 at a carboot at the weekend. Not remarkable at all except it had a VL-1 stuffed in the box. I'm not sure what I am going to do with the VL-tone yet, perhaps use it as a paperweight - I can't say I am in love with the sounds!