NOMAD'S SYNTH PAGE

Ok folks, this may turn into something great. For now, it's just a simple thing. See the features below.
[3/31/99] FINALLY updated the page to point to retrosynth http://www.retrosynth.com/ who is now holding the ENTIRE archive on his site! Get to it via a direct link at http://www.retrosynth.com/files/dss1/.
Now, there are NO local DSS-1 disks on this site. Please go to either Cary Robert's site above, or to Larry Hendry's very nice site at http://larry.retrosynth.com/larry/dss-1/disk.htm.
Quick pics: Speck 316
Speck 316 & Roland M480

More quick pics of my DSS1 for sale: Pic1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic5

DSS-1 DISK LIBRARY

Thanks to Christian Schroeder (his DSS-1 page) for the great tip on getting this working.
Looks like Christian's page is down...any info anyone?

UTILITIES

Here's the great CopyQM program -> CopyQM.
You can also get it from the above site (for european connections): CopyQM.

Here's some instructions you can download (again, from the above site): Documentation.
OR, follow the below:
To: Copy a DSS-1 disk to your hard drive:
Place the disk in the drive. Type the following command:
copyqm a: record= blind bios
It will then do the copy.

To: Copy a DSS-1 disk from your hard drive to a floppy:
Place a blank disk in the drive. Type the following command:
copyqm a: playback= blind bios
It will then do the copy.

NEW: DSM-1 Librarian for the Macintosh (sorry, pc owners). See this site for more info: http://members.aol.com/spaztech/SpazDSM1.html...

DSS-1 DISKS

Here's what you've been waiting for. First, a list of the ones at Christian Schroeder's site:
The above are zipped copies. Here's some from my library (and others):
Also thanks to Jeff mailto:duke@twave.net who has graciously volunteered to host a bunch of these on his web space....if you use this write him and thank him!
Also, retrosynth (http://www.retrosynth.com) for holding the ENTIRE archive. For the below, site 1 is the retrosynth site, and site 2 is Jeff's site (since he's not quite archiving the whole thing, this will look simpler). UPDATE(11/22/02) - Well, Jeff's site has actually been down for a while. I'll fix all the references eventually, but use retrosynth instead.. Still with us? Factory disks:
User disks(contributed by me):
- none currently, all turned out to be copies of factory disks -

Contributed by Larry Hendry: Well, that should get you started. More to follow....

REPLACING THE DSS-1 DISK DRIVE

I know some people have had the drive go bad on them. Well, I got some info from Christian who has had some success with this. He used a Copal (Fujitsu?) drive. Set the jumpers for drive select to 0, and set jumper drive RDY to ground. This worked for him. Larry Hendry has sent me information that Sony drives definitely do NOT work. So, you may have to experiment, but there are reports of successful replacement. Hopefully this info is useful to someone...
Here's some more info I pulled off of usenet. This information came from Doug (mailto:huseby@poke.srv.net, and was posted to rec.music.makers.synth:
I finally got a replacement drive installed for my Korg DSS-1. It works great.
FYI, the current compatible replacement drive is a Teac FD235HF-A529 (which replaces the -7500 which replaced the -6500 which replaced the original Canon FD).
Make sure you get a -A529 and not a -A291 or something. The A291 is easier to find, but is jumperless and won't work with the DSS-1
Out of several dozen Teac distributors, I found 2 that carried the -A529 and would sell them singly to a private individual. They are Arrow (phone: 800-833-3557) and Bell Industries (phone: 800-buy bell). Bell industries has a $100 minimum order, so I went with Arrow. Arrow charged me $50 for the drive (expensive, but better the $175 through Korg).
The -A529 has jumpers that need to be configured properly. The jumpers are configured the same way as on Korg's 01W and T series as shown on this web page:
http://net.indra.com/~cliffcan/01fdd.htm

Hope that helps someone. Search dejanews if you need to see the original article (although it is posted in its entirety above).

PROPHET 3000 DISK LIBRARY

UTILITIES

Again, you'll need CopyQM. Here are the links again if you need them:
CopyQM, here (CA/US) European site

Ok, this one was slightly more complicated. For this to work for me, I had to use the BIOS option to the command line. So, use the above lines but add BIOS to the end of it.

PROPHET 3000 DISKS

Not much yet, but more to come soon. For now, enjoy the following:
OS Versions: Program disks:
None here anymore, sorry... i sold the P3000, and the other site was destroyed before i could save any data.
The system disk above has a small drum set on it as well.

DIGITAL KEYBOARDS SYNERGY II

I don't have one of these, but I do have the software. Get it here:
Disk 1
Disk 2
It includes a CP/M emulator for MS-DOS. Enjoy! PS: Not enough room to keep this up, mail me and i'll mail it to you. BTW, I thought i had lost one of these disks, and told several people I no longer had them, but I have found them. So if you asked for them, ask again...

ADDITIONS TO THIS PAGE

If you've got anything to add to this page (either software/patches for odd synths that don't have a home elsewhere, or additions to what is already here) please mail me at corley.brigman@intel.com. Thanks! Note: If there's interest, I'll make a p2000 section too. But I'll need submissions - I don't have a p2000/2002.

MYSTERY WAVE FILES

Ok, they're not a 'mystery' any more. Just making sure these are still accessible. They were originally for a short 'is this analog or digital?' thing. A couple below are snippets of longer files; these longer files are up. Note that they are unedited, single-session recording and a bit rough...

MY STUDIO

I'll try to find some pictures to throw up here soon (so you can see everything). They'll just be web pictures (i.e. already existing), though, because I don't have a scanner or a digital camera.

Current

Synths

Effects

Other

Past residents of the nomad studio

There's a lot of these...the synths I own are rather nomadic as well :)

Synths

Effects

Other



times.

CREDITS

Pictures you see here are from Synth.Site at Sonicstate and The Synth Museum. Also thanks to Geocities for a great free home page site!
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