Ensoniq ASR-10 with SCSI2SD Drive

[@dudu046]

Great video! Some months ago I bought an Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus, and have been maxing it out, I installed the memory expansion in it, and this video made me order an Ensoniq SP-2 and a ZuluSCSI, it appears to be faster than the Gotek I installed in it. Thank you for showing us this!

[@HankCoffey]

Nice man, yeah Gotek USB drives are slow as floppies. SCSI is fast.

[@aldonova4082]

LoL that demo song "Gift Of Gab" is the reason I bought an ASR-10. Was at Sam Ash back in the day and the rep showed me that song and I was like yeep, give me this. It was between an MPC, SP1200 and ASR-10 my choices that day.

[@HankCoffey]

That Gift O Gab is pretty fire. LMAO

[@aldonova4082]

@HankCoffey The rap on it "I break it down mellow, pop in the disk to the ASR-10, sequence rewind get the mix on time, Ensoniq is ahead of it's time with the ASR-10". Word

[@aldonova4082]

​@HankCoffey I never tried that... recording vocals right to the machine. I remember Ensoniq came out with disk or hard drive recording on it think it was called Paris.

[@aldonova4082]

​@@HankCoffeyI never mixed mine correctly back in the day like individually processing each track til I realized there was an output expander available to route the tracks out individually into a mixer that was game changing for me later on.

[@ScottBrio]

This is helpful. I'm getting a ZuluSCSI drive for my ASR-X Pro and was hoping to see improved read/write speeds as the USB Floppy emulator is god awful. It's taking over 15 minutes and 10 user prompts (button presses) just to save a simple song. The SCSI with SD cards is light-speed indeed!

[@HankCoffey]

Yeah, if you have SCSI interface, SD is the way to go. Gotek USB drives are slow.

[@Rodarooni]

Nice informative video thanks Hank

[@HankCoffey]

Hi, thanks Rod!

[@2handzup]

Just got an asr! Thank you for this

[@HankCoffey]

Awesome!

[@juicefcmartinez4152]

I create new directories as "doors". Door 1, 2, etc. Keeps you organized.

[@melindarichardson9342]

great stuff honestly

[@HankCoffey]

Thank you so much Melinda!

[@Johnsormani]

Great vid Hank. Would be great if you would share the way to edit the bank directory structure

[@HankCoffey]

It's complicated John. I can offer it as a service.

[@Johnsormani]

@@HankCoffey ok Thanks Hank,good to know .Once i can get a hold of a scsi2sd Module i will give it a go and might come back to you if I can’t hack it :-)

[@MichaelDaniels241]

@@HankCoffey Price please for the copys

[@HankCoffey]

@@MichaelDaniels241 It would require you to flash your scsi2sd drive with my drive's xml file. So your partitions will be the same as mine. Then I would have to upload IMGs of my SD cards. You would have to download and put the IMGs on SD cards with something like Balena Etcher. My business email in on this channel. I've spent weeks making my SD cards. It was a ton of stuff to learn. So, I'm not gonna copy them cheap.

[@gatosoul]

Hi, are you using the original Ensoniq internal SCSI board or a new Remanufactured third-party "Scsi board" Thank you for sharing !!

[@HankCoffey]

Original Ensoniq, Thanks man!

[@Metamophisis]

Great video 🔥💣🧨🎹🤩

[@HankCoffey]

Thanks Meta!

[@gordonharper2961]

nice job on the video!

[@HankCoffey]

Thank you Gordon!

[@jessecook845]

good job!👍

[@HankCoffey]

Thank you Jesse! 💋

[@showbread9366]

Sweet!

[@joseph395]

Another dope video Hank! Which SCSI2SD (brand) did you end up going with?

[@HankCoffey]

Hey Michael, I don't know the brand. It's the v5.2 from Sampler Zone.

[@joseph395]

@@HankCoffey thanks bro, I’m going to check it out! Do you know if the external ones work as good as the internal ones? I wish their was someone out there who made a floppy/sd drive to have the best of both worlds. A mixture of modern and old school..

[@HankCoffey]

@@joseph395 there are 3 popular drive boards. 5.2, 5.5 mini, and 6.0. Wether mounted internal or in a external case, should be the same speed.

[@crooklyneny]

ASR 10 Familia

[@christianbeauchemin8637]

BB must have been on the 2-Track :D

[@HankCoffey]

He was on the patch that had multiple samples across the keyboard.

[@carlinhospapanegro]

Great video! How did you made format to SD Cards?

[@HankCoffey]

😉

[@dreamstaticsounds]

Where did you get the floppy drive-sized enclosure for the scsi2sd?

[@HankCoffey]

samplerzone dot com. Tell Garth I sent you.

[@barrywells2020]

like like like!

[@HankCoffey]

Thanks Barry!

[@ganormand]

do you still use your TS12?

[@HankCoffey]

Hi Glenn, I still have it. It is put away in it's flight case. I mostly use software these days.

[@Diddddu]

Now maybe if you would of installed it to the scsi drive instead.Triton is similar

[@hildashaw302]

subscribed for more!😌

[@HankCoffey]

Thank you Hilda! ❤️

[@thomasmatthews8873]

Load time is warp speed..wow! Will this work on the Eps16 plus?

[@HankCoffey]

I don't mess with this stuff much anymore. But you should be able to get it working with a 16 plus if it has scsi installed. The hard part is getting the libraries to work. You almost have to be a software developer to get Ensoniq libraries to work properly.

[@dreamstaticsounds]

It should. I'm using Zuluscsi with a classic EPS just fine.

[@raulhumbertovernazagarcia4155]

good video. I have this same ensoniq asr 10. I bought a GOTEK usb emulator and every time I pass the image of the floppy disk of the operating system, I get this error (File op error num = 040). Could it be that you can sell me an image of the operating system of the asr10 by mail? or what could it be? Thank you

[@HankCoffey]

I can send you a link to where you can download the OS hfe/img for free. Send me a email. It's in vid description. The Goteks jumpers might not be set right.

[@patrickseanmclain2357]

AHHHH WORD I can tell you have fun making that track I know what it's like you just want to make another one another one another one you can make the track in order free space sample to track again go inside the track chop the track that you just made up all kinds of crazy s*** with the sr10 yeah have fun I hope everybody get a kicked out of that get yourself one even if you got it MP c even if you got the 44303 you keep the SR in the middle of all those you got some real serious tunes I mean they don't make the board anymore I will even go as far as grabbing every vintage Casio keyboard I can find and get all those sounds it's time to start keep tapping it the more we tap into the more we make music better all produces it shouldn't be no hate or selfishness putting the sounds out you know I apologize for not having a site out or how I'm going to do my joints but you know it's coming and I hope it smack everybody's silly to head they don't know what the hell's going on and hope it smack right by silly in the heart and spirit that wants to be sparked so we can make music better I'm tired of hearing the commercial b******* all this technology you see the studio fancy doing here to track it's not like they using nothing or they being creative you know it's funny and then you got cats that take something from nothing take a sk5 and you would have thought they used the asr-10 they probably had an xk5 and two three head tape decks doing pause at it I'm talking too long but I took all this and build off the ASR 10 to fill me peace

[@xMuSiQ14]

Hey Hank! Question, have you ever had to resolve a "KBD Failed" Calibration issue with your ASR-10? If so, how did you resolve?

[@HankCoffey]

If you are lucky, maybe a ribbon cable connection is bad, or unplugged. There are 2 keybed circuitboards. With a connector connecting the 2. It is usually a bad connection there. Some people bypass the connector with solder. There are adjustment pots on the keybed boards, if those somehow go out of adjustment, it will cause the error also. There are coiled circuitboard traces under each key. If any of those circuit traces are broken, it will cause the error also.

[@dianevrules]

nice

[@HankCoffey]

Thanks Diane ❤️

[@basedvato]

How did you format the SD card so it can boot? And do you run the scsi all the way to the back? Or you undo the scsi and have it housed in the case? I have one of those 2gb brick he that connects to the scsi and this looks way better and easier

[@HankCoffey]

I think I made one of the drive IDs bootable using Chicken Systems Translator. Samplerzone sells a cable kit that connects to the drive internally. And runs to the back jack. The scsi bus on Ensoniq isn't powered. So I used the floppy's power connection.

[@kanuke]

How were you able to get the O.S. onto the SD card?

[@HankCoffey]

Make at least one of the SCSI drive partitions bootable using Chicken Systems Translator. It's how I did it.

[@kanuke]

@@HankCoffey Thank you I've spent hours trying to do this with no luck. Are you using the free version of Chicken Systems Translator? Did you do everything in Chicaken Systems? Boot partitions/flash O.S. ALso would you be willing to sell a card with everything ready to go? Thanks alot

[@HankCoffey]

@@kanuke you can do everything yourself with Chicken Systems Translator. Probably with the Free version. Have fun! 👍

[@mattiesanders5102]

not bad 👏

[@HankCoffey]

Thank you Mattie!

[@G_ROBINSON89]

So you dont need the floppy disk drive or the emulator to boot the OS if you have one of these?

[@HankCoffey]

No, you can make a scsi drive bootable. I used Chicken Systems translator to make the bootable partitions.

[@G_ROBINSON89]

@@HankCoffey Would you be able to tell me if the ASR10 automatically switches from loading the OS via floppy drive, to loading the OS via the SCSI drive? Im just asking because im about to recieve a ASR with a busted floppy drive.

[@HankCoffey]

@@G_ROBINSON89 yes, it pings the drives in sequence looking for the OS. Unless you plan on buying and using original floppies, you don't need a floppy or Gotek.

[@jameshardy5578]

Can you help me with recording on tracks 9- 16 because I know the asr has a 16 track sequencer?

[@HankCoffey]

There's only 8 tracks on the ASR... but the sequencer can do 16 midi tracks.

[@jameshardy5578]

@@HankCoffey thanks

[@Metamophisis]

Btw where did you get the internal drive and what’s the cost?

[@HankCoffey]

SamplerZone, same company as Chicken Systems. I don't remember the exact price. I got a cable kit with it. Less than $200

[@Metamophisis]

Does this unit on the back use regular SD Cards or Micro SD Cards?

[@MichaelDaniels241]

@@HankCoffey ZULu

[@HankCoffey]

@@Metamophisis There is no unit on the back in this video? I am using regular SD cards in this video.

[@ginomakentino6719]

Hi, are you able to sell me a scsi2sd drive with the sd card library? thanks

[@HankCoffey]

Where are you located?