EPROM rips

There are countless sample packs that people recorded painstakingly and often with questionable quality from drum machine outputs but you don't find many samples lifted straight from the chips.

Alesis HR-16 to get these ones you have to install "Setup_CEG_V1.4.2.zip"

Linn Drum

I have the Alesis SR-16 too but I don't think its public yet and the thing is still being sold in stores, should I post?

Anyone find more?

Nice!

cool but kind of weird without the griminess. Would be good for a Huge Chrome Cylinder Box 2 though. Guess I would have to mess with running it through effects before I can decide

An interesting thing about the raw samples is the older drum machines liked to use clever tricks to maximize sound content and reduce storage space, like mixing them together in different ways and at different rates so there are sometimes samples on the eprom that are never played on their own or at their correct pitch. Its kind of geeky and masturbatory but its a bit of fun.

Now, this is why I keep checking this forum. Thanks for posting!

oh wierd so it's like different samples than the ones everyone's heard before?

  On 12/17/2011 at 11:13 PM, RadarJammer said:

An interesting thing about the raw samples is the older drum machines liked to use clever tricks to maximize sound content and reduce storage space, like mixing them together in different ways and at different rates so there are sometimes samples on the eprom that are never played on their own or at their correct pitch. Its kind of geeky and masturbatory but its a bit of fun.

I noticed this when I tried to rip some samples from Star Fox. So all those sound effects are not just samples but sequences of these very short samples. Pretty fascinating stuff.

Another thing I've heard (not totally sure about this) is that some of the machines that had only 8 or 10 bits of sample resolution would use play back the samples so that the amplitude values were not evenly quantized: there was an exponentially greater amplitude difference per-bit at higher amplitudes. That way really soft samples didn't get totally decimated, there's still some dynamics intact.

  On 12/19/2011 at 5:41 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

oh wierd so it's like different samples than the ones everyone's heard before?

The Alesis SR-16 boasts "a great selection of 233 realistic, natural drum sounds, offered both in dry form and sampled with our incomparable digital reverbs" this is trickery, there are only 66 samples in the chip and 9 of them are 100% wet reverb samples that they mix in different strange ways to get a plethora of reverb room sounds. Some other drum machines do this same thing but they have a slider which would let you control how wet it is by fading between the two samples.

woah that's carazay.