DMP/EV/006 · HardwareReplaced
Ensoniq EPS sampler
| Accession no. | DMP/EV/006 |
|---|---|
| Category | Hardware |
| Dated | In service 1989–1990 |
| Condition | Original unit sold to Producer Bill Williams in 1994. A replacement unit of the same model was purchased in 2016. |
| Role | Vintage samples and sequences for any songs not transferred to Macintosh |
|---|---|
| Bank format | Proprietary, disk-resident |
| Sample rate (as found) | 26.04 kHz typical |
| Service | Replacement unit found in 2016: |
Curator's note
Every melodic and percussive sound in the archive originated here.
Because the disks are proprietary, no modern software reads them without loss. Original hardware was acquired to move over sounds and sequences to modern computers.
The decision to capture audio by playing the hardware in real time was made here, in 2016, the first time the original banks loaded again.