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[lemonhorse]

“Where’s the Party At?” Bendable, Open DIY Sampler Brings 8-bit Back
By Peter Kirn
Todd Bailey’s “Where’s the Party At?” wants to return to a simpler, glitchier era of sampling. When CDM spoke to Hank Shocklee, Public Enemy’s legendary producer, he talked about how those artists really preferred earlier samplers because of, not in spite of, their flaws. And because lo-fi is a little easier to pull off, this makes a great project.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/09/25/wheres-the-party-at-bendable-open-diy-sampler-brings-8-bit-back/

http://www.narrat1ve.com/

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512K x 8 Static RAM
http://www.usbid.com/datasheets/CY7C1049%20Cypress%20SRAM.pdf

[lemonhorse]

Rompler is a nickname for an electronic musical instrument that playbacks samples stored in ROM chips to generate sound. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rompler

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by Harry Lythall - SM0VPO
It is funny that many of my ideas come to me whilst I am on the toilet. This one is no exception. In this project I will show you how to compose WAV audio files on your computer, then blow them to an EPROM that can be read using a simple pocket-sized CMOS reader. Unfortunately this project means that I need to explain loads of data about Micro$oft .BIN and .WAV files.
The electronics is ridiculously simple and the speech quality from this project is surprisingly clear, far better than the proverbial "BBC Quality" (I listen to the BBC World Service daily and I think that "BBC quality" on HF is crap!!). The unit I will describe is far in advance of those little "fart machines" or "laughing boxes" that seem to be quite popular as presents this Christmas. You will be able to record two seconds of decent quality AF on a 2764 EPROM, with a 4KHz sample rate. You can double this to four seconds if you drop the sample rate to 2KHz, which is the point at which noticeable distortion begins to appear. A 27256 will give you eight seconds at 4KHz sample rate and 16 seconds at half-rate. I only need 2 seconds to say "ESS EMM ZERO VEE PEE OH". If you want to recite 'War & Peace' then you will need a few hard disks. I am presently looking into a bit of logic that can read data from those old obsolete 40M/byte and 120M/byte hard disks that you have probably got lying around. Software Needed ...
http://h9n1fls307o1036.telia.com/eprom/wave_00.htm


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Thursday, November 13, 2008
A True Rompler (1): Raw Digital Audio
Introduction
I wanted to make a device that plays back digital audio, without the use of any programming or a microcontroller or a computer. In other words, the most basic rompler, as a hardware-only device.

Overview
A 32KB EPROM is used to store some digital audio. A counting circuit is used to sequentially (or otherwise) recall the samples from the memory byte-by-byte. These bytes are then converted to an analog waveform, ready for amplification and listening.

Preparing and Transferring the Audio
I sequenced a two bar loop at 240 bpm. This equals 2 seconds of audio. This was then converted to a sample quality of 8 bit / 16,384 Hz, so that two seconds' worth fits into the 32KB memory space exactly. ... (Sebastian Tomczak)

http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2008/11/true-rompler-1-raw-digital-audio.html

http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2008/11/true-rompler-2-drum-machine.html

[lemonhorse]

4-Mbit (512K x 8) Static RAM
The CY7C1049D is a high-performance CMOS static RAM
organized as 512K words by 8 bits.
http://www.compel.ru/pdf/CYPR/cy7c1049d_8.pdf

[lemonhorse]

The Quantix-8 module is a CV Quantizer / Wavetable Oscillator based on a 4Mbits Static RAM memory and a PIC microcontroler with a full MIDI implementation. The memory contain 2048 waveforms of 256bytes organised into a matrix of 32 Banks x 64 Waves. The Quantix-8 is a very polyvalent 7 in 1 module.
http://m.bareille.free.fr/modular1/quantix8/quantix8.htm

[lemonhorse]

Wave Table - for music synthesizers.
Bank and Wave tables can be selected either by a pulse on the appropriate input, or by pushing one of the front panel switches. The currently selected Bank and Wave are displayed by two single digit led displays.
http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/wavetable.html



standuino sampler
There are four buttons on the sampler which are used to trigger the samples and also walk through the menu. When the Menu Switch is turned off the buttons are used to perform the samples. Different combination of the button presses will play different sample which gives you possibility to trigger 15 different samples. To set up the samples you use the Menu. So if you turn on the Menu Switch you are in the menu. Use Button 3 and 4 to walk through the menu. If you change the possition in the menu and sound should tell you where you are....
http://www.standuino.eu/devices/tutorials/standuino-eno-nuno-sampler/