an incredible car boot find....

andy_wheels · 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!

) 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...

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.

untune · November 12, 2006, 07:14:26 PM

I wish I had the motivation to get up on a Sunday morning

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

Circuitbenders · November 12, 2006, 08:24:33 PM

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! ) 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.

Circuitbenders · November 12, 2006, 08:28:22 PM

oh, and you are a jammy bastard!

andy_wheels · November 13, 2006, 04:17:51 PM

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

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!

Signal:Noise · November 18, 2006, 09:03:13 AM

maybe you should spread the jamminess around and do car boot safaris for aspiring benders.

amazing find though, talk about jealous.

iqoruvuc · December 11, 2006, 02:02:26 PM

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!