New Use for Qudra 605

[Aoresteen]

I found a new use for my Qudra 605. I recently bought a mid-90's Akai S2000 sampler for my studio. I needed to build an external SCSI cas to hold a CD-ROM, ZIP, and 500mb hard drive.

I used SCSI Prob 3.5 to verify that the SCSI devices were set on the prober IDs - 5 for the hard drive, 4 for the CD-ROM, and 3 for the Zip drive - and were working before I tried using them with the Akai sampler.

Worked great!

 

[Bunsen]

Pix?

Sounds great. I gather there's no logic board in the case still?

 

[Aoresteen]

The AKAI has a logic board. The display is 2 lines of 16 chacters. The Akai OS is, well, limited. It's a pain to configure SCSI devices using the Akai OS.

The Mac has mucho better tools.

 

[Bunsen]

I misunderstood - I thought you were using the case of the 605 to keep all your SCSI devices in! So ... the Akai and the Mac are connected to the SCSI chain at the same time? I remember you could do that with my old Ensoniq EPS samplers; they must have a different SCSI ID to the Mac, and there was some software that interacted directly with the sampler from the Mac. Is that the case with the Akai as well?