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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the Roland S-760 Digital Sampler. The Roland S-760 is a single rack space,
stereo, multitimbral, 16-bit digital sampler that has the power and flexibility of Roland’s well known 700
series digital samplers. The S-760 is able to sample and edit complex waveforms, as well as play back
samples from Roland’s unique, high-quality Sample Archive CD-ROMs. You will need a compatible
CD-ROM player to utilize the Preview CD-ROM Disc that came with your S-760.
With the addition of the OP-760-1 Option board, DA-400 Output Expander, SIMM memory, an external
monitor and external SCSI storage devices, you can increase the performance of the S-760 by adding
capabilities found on professional studio samplers like Roland’s S-770/750 Digital Samplers.
Connections with External Equipment
SCSI
“SCSI” stands for Small Computer Serial Interface, which is the type of interface that the S-760 uses to
interact with external storage devices, such as hard drives and CD-ROM players. Since digital samples
can quickly fill-up a standard floppy disk, digital samplers need to take advantage of large storage
devices to speed-up retrieval of sounds and to help organize the sounds in a sample library. You can
use floppy disks as well. However, you’ll find it tedious to use save a 16MB Performance on multiple
floppy disks. Software Version 2.0 allows you to save sound parameters onto a floppy disk without hav-
ing to save the actual samples (See Volume Dump to FD).
Example of a typical SCSI system setup
Setting-up the S-760 Digital Sampler with a hard drive or any kind of SCSI device requires some basic
steps. The first step is to assign a specific SCSI “ID” (similar to MIDI channels) to each device in the
SCSI chain. You can think of the SCSI ID as the SCSI “channel.” The S-760 is normally set to ID #7. If
you’re using several external drives with the S-760, such as a Syquest removable drive and a CD-ROM
player, you will need to set a separate ID for each device. Most SCSI devices have external switches to
change their ID number.
See the manual that came with your drive to determine how its SCSI ID number can be changed.
An important factor to consider when using an external hard drive is SCSI termination. The devices on
each end of a SCSI chain must have either internal or external termination. An external terminator is
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(internally termination)
External Fixed or Removeable drive
(no termination)
CD-ROM Player
(external termination)
25N to 50 pin SCSI cable
50N to 50 pin SCSI cable
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