I still have 4 DPX1. They all got the CDROM interface,
and I have the player and all the CDROMs too. Can't
say they get much use now, the EII samples were the
stars, and they're available, for the most part, on
the EIIIx series of factory disks which can import to
S100/S300 and from there to the Kurzweil.Some
brilliant stuff, hundreds of man hours of careful
work. The Emulator Archive claimed all the EII stuff
was 16bit Sony pcm F1 recordings at source.
I never found a Mirage sample I liked, and the only
Prophet 2000 disks I wanted to read, wouldn't.
You can only load one disk at a time, that's why I got
4, and it turns out that the layering I so badly
wanted to try isn't that great as there are individual
tuning discrepancies that throw you, Steinway plus
Bosendorfer equals Honky Tonk, two clavinets aren't
worth a bird in the hand, and most samples just plain
don't add up, unlike all the beautiful Oberheim synths
which all add up perfectly.
The last vesion of DPX1 software has a few odd
refinements I've forgotten, but all ver 2 play S900
but only if you don't use a disk that has multiple
MIDI channels assigned to a preset, and you get
control over the filter at last. MIDI sample dump is
still a bit quirky, not much mileage in that IMHO,
even though I saw Hans Zimmer doing EII to S1000
transfers back in 87 with a DPX1. Maybe that much
talent makes things different.
S900 disks load directly into the Kurzweil 2000
anyway.
There was never S1000 compatability or EIII, which
were the two big players here until Korg joined in.
Many net people get exicted about the filters, but
life's too short for me to get into that.

--- Nicole Massey < nyyki@... > wrote:

> I wish they'd kept updating it so that we could play
> Kurzweil, Roland, and
> Ensoniq EPS disks in it. I remember seeing the
> display next to the player
> that it now had the capability to read Akai S900
> disks -- that wasn't in the
> original specs of the machine.
>
> How many samples will it load at one time
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf
> Of Damir Rogina
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:55 PM
> To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [oberheim] DPX-1 sample player
>
> I got DPX 1 V2.1 somewhere in studio as sampleplayer
> for II disks
> --- Nicole Massey < nyyki@...
> <mailto:nyyki%40gypsyheir.com> >
> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I may be dating myself, but I remember when
> they first came out.
> > It was a rather novel approach for a company known
> for their
> > Subtractive Synths almost exclusively to suddenly
> release a sampler
> > that was just a player. In fact, I was thinking
> about that unit late
> > last week.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:oberheim%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:oberheim%40yahoogroups.com> ]
> > On Behalf Of somethingkillingyou
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:32 PM
> > To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:oberheim%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [oberheim] DPX-1 sample player
> >
> > is there anyone there with one of these beasts
> >
> > they are cool 'cause they can read Emulator II,
> Mirage, S-900 and
> > Prophet
> > 2000/2002 samples disks...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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