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It's probably about to

It's turning into goo?

Oh

Isn't it a bit too early for rubber reversion

The x230 has a strip of rubber on the lid

What?

RUBBER STRIP IS FUCKED

THE GODDAMN

OH NO

OH

Ok, apparently the X230 has a pretty good PCMCIA interface

It's a thinkpad X230 so about 11 years?

How old is that laptop?

I can test both but i misplaced my two CF readers and the only laptop I have with a pcmcia interface doesn't have an OS right now

But if you can discard that then it has to be the Fantom-XR's interface

The CF to PCMCIA adapter's a different story though

Well, the CF card should be easy to test with a PC and a USB card adapter.

IF you're lucky enough

Nope that's for MIDI only iirc

Can it load samples through USB?

Yeah, I haven't found any info on it either.

Can't find any info on it

anon said:

Would be pretty stupid if it were PCMCIA 1.0

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it's roland, they invented the concept of stupidity

Would be pretty stupid if it were PCMCIA 1.0

I'm not sure what revision of PCMCIA the Fantom-XR uses. It was originally based on 16-bit ISA; so if it's using a really old revision of the standard, narrow SCSI might actually be faster.

TS0MCF2PC

Maybe it's the adapter? It's a regular transcend CF adapter

The card I got is a regular 1066x UDMA 7 card

Probably even slower then

So 5MB per second.

The XV's SCSI connector looks like a DB25. You'd be limited to narrow SCSI.

It's probably the PCMCIA interface then

I thought it was my CF card but I got nearly the fastest card I could find (I know they're still very slow though)

The limiting factor is probably going to be the SCSI interface on the XV

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SCSI can be a PITA

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friend of mine uses a SCSI to USB interface instead of a CD drive but I haven't asked him if it's any faster

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I checked the manual. It only specifies that it must be 70ns or faster. It uses 72-pin SIMMs. Also 8 and 32 MB SIMMs don't work on non-Ultra E4s. The memory ICs on my SIMMs are KM41C16000BK-6.

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That's odd, I can't think of a good reason why 8 and 32 wouldn't work. I've looked up some RAM for the E4 specifically and 128mb are relatively cheap these days

SCSI can be a PITA

You're probably better off with the PCMCIA interface.

It's the only modern sampler that can import S700 CDs (after converting them) after the XV-5080 (which can read them natively but it still uses the same kind of RAM and you'd have to load them through a CD drive connected via SCSI and I'm not sure if that would be any faster than the PCMCIA interface on the XR)

I checked the manual. It only specifies that it must be 70ns or faster. It uses 72-pin SIMMs. Also 8 and 32 MB SIMMs don't work on non-Ultra E4s. The memory ICs on my SIMMs are KM41C16000BK-6.

Xeraser said:

From the few tests I performed I was able to find out that you can't (or at least I didn't figure it out) import stuff to specific user patches, it's first in first out

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(when importing patches that is, I suspect you need a librarian if you don't want to lose your mind)

I also went through a small odyssey just to get the damn Roland sample CD converter to work

From the few tests I performed I was able to find out that you can't (or at least I didn't figure it out) import stuff to specific user patches, it's first in first out

More like PCMCIA to CF

Well I say CF

My hunch is that the CF interface is the bottleneck but I can't be too sure

I'm not sure if it's due to the PC133 ram or because it has to load the samples from a CF card

Navigating it is a pain when it comes to doing anything with samples and the load times even with 512mb are excruciatingly slow

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A full gigabyte? I did consider a Fantom-XR at one point. How well does it work as a sampler (loading and modifying samples/patches, etc.)?

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it depends honestly

I can't imagine how slow it'd be even when compared to pc133