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Up for sale for just 265 euro + shipping ( almost 60 euro within europe) this sampler-sinth by Korg with 8 voice and amazing analog filter

http://glenstegner.com/dss1/home.html

here some sound demo:

https://soundcloud.com/carillon_audio/s ... korg-dss-1
https://soundcloud.com/carillon_audio/k ... lator-wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAlZpItp4JY

The week point in this one is the floppy loading procedure that it could be improved by changing that for a modern sd card reader ( this cost almost 100 euro )

http://lotharek.pl/category.php?kid=26

You'll easily find all the disk library online available for free

best wish

Roberto

Buy this, then buy this: http://www.straylightengineering.com/pr ... purchasing

jksuperstar wrote:Buy this, then buy this: http://www.straylightengineering.com/pr ... purchasing

Really Thanks jksuperstar for the resource, i've not cited cause right now seems there's no kit available cause there will be something new cooked for the 2016

"Tom Virostek
on April 24, 2015 at 7:54 am said:
Hi xxxx, the current kit is no longer available. I’m working on a new version which should be ready sometime in 2016."

http://www.straylightengineering.com/pr ... ade-story/

Hope this can help other dss1's owner too

thanks again

i have all the last kits

and i have 2 left

the new kit is for the dsm1 rack mount sampler which is being done next

then after that it will be a revision for the dss1 which will then be rev 5

jhulk wrote:i have all the last kits

and i have 2 left

the new kit is for the dsm1 rack mount sampler which is being done next

then after that it will be a revision for the dss1 which will then be rev 5

I've another dss not to sell, so just to know how much for the kit jhulk?

thanks

the kit is £230

this gives you the new 24mb memory board and all parts for fitting this includes sip sockets for the replacement of ram chips a 6 way mfc connector and a 6 way mfc ribbon

then theres the digital board processor kit this is a usb and processor board with the mfc cable and all the dip sockets for fitting

there are 2 additional parts and sockets not part of the original kit but was decided that on some revisions that the ttl chips did not have pull up resistors and would glitch with the new cmos types so that 2 chips which are 74ls138 need to be changed to 74hc138

there is also a new dual cliff socket that you can fit on the back so that you dont have to change the original floppy drive these are made by cliff i provide a punch that you have to return for punching the hole and 2 extra internal usb cables that fit the 2 usb sockets on the cpu board
this is extra costing £8 for the cliff socket and 2x£5 for the 2 cables

and the other upgrade is a oled 20x2 display this is a very good upgrade and it does away with the angle control and the el foil transformer its also an easier install as you just dont fit the cables to the angle board and dont connect pin 3 on the display this stops the noisy transformer that can whine

as the led version requires De-soldering the transformer and adding a current reducing resistor and other angle mods which take longer

then there is the noise in the outputs mod this is relatively easy you have to reroute all the audio cables away from the main cable bulk which they are tie rapped to and direct them and tie rap them to the pillars of the button boards so that they are in the middle of the top panel and then fitting 3 ferrite clip on beads £3 each

there is a lot of De-soldering work and you have to be really careful as there are 2 chips that need De-soldering and keeping as one fits the cpu board thats the floppy controller chip and the other special chip which needs to go back in its location after a trace has been cut under the chip

then there is the button upgrade for new burrandbrown momentary switches this is £25 this makes using the dss1 like new

and it really changes the machine loading wave files is great and upto 4mb multisounds i have many 2400khz samples which give 10 seconds per sample that are like a long tape loop that have been recorded via a nice tube pre to tape then from tape to pc and saved as wave you then can cut the samples up in an editor and load them into the dss1-x

Thanks for all that infos jhulk

Right now i can't afford it cause i'm collecting money to grab an outboard i need from a friend ( that's the reason why i'm selling some stuffs ) but of course i'll take into account for sure for future upgrade

The DSS-1 with the upgrade is really, and whole new synth. No need for floppies, and a USB thumb drive serves to hold your complete sound library! It also allows for using WAV files, rather than specialized sysex dumps and such. Basically, aside from the much larger memory space for loading much larger multi-sample sets, it allows the synth to be used with current computers and sound sources.

There are no modern synths that can compare. The synth/sampler can go from gritty to creamy, or be both at once. 8 voices of analog filters and VCAs combined with digital samplers is great.

I have a deal on DSS-1 ...so this baby it's not more available

Thanks to all

Rob