Display:
You have saved something to the hard drive. Changes are kept only until this page is closed or reloaded.
How to use it
- Switch on. The sampler starts and loads its operating system from the hard drive. After a few seconds the display shows the folders at the top level of the drive.
- Open a folder. Choose a folder with the ▲ ▼ arrow buttons (or the Data Entry slider) and press YES to open it. EXIT TO … takes you back up. The arrow buttons ◀ ▶ show where you are.
- Load a bank. Inside a folder, press LOAD and then INST to list the banks and instruments in it. Choose a bank and press YES: the sampler loads its instruments (and its song, if it has one) into the instrument buttons 1–8.
- Load a single instrument. Choose an instrument the same way, press YES and then the instrument button (1–8) it should go to.
- Play. Press an instrument button to select it (its yellow light comes on) and play the keyboard below the panel, the keys of your computer or a MIDI keyboard. PLAY starts the song or sequence, STOP stops it.
- Restart. Hold POWER for about a second.
The hard drive is read while you browse, so the first time you open something it can take a moment (the DRIVE light in the corner shows when the drive is read). Anything saved to the drive stays only until the page is closed.
Computer keys
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| A W S E D F T G Y H U J K O L P | play notes (Z / X: octave down / up) |
| 1–8 or F1–F8 | instrument buttons 1–8 |
| Arrow keys | ▲ ▼ ◀ ▶ |
| Enter / Esc | YES / NO |
| Space / R | PLAY / RECORD |
| Number pad 1–9, 0 | the page buttons 1 ENV1 … 9 LAYER, 0 TRACK |
| F11 / F12 | Patch Select left / right |
| Mouse wheel on the panel | ▲ ▼ |
Notes are sent on the MIDI channel of the selected track, so they play the instrument whose yellow light is on (on this drive, track 1 listens on MIDI channel 1, track 2 on channel 2, and so on).
About
The hard drive is the recovered drive with everything that could be restored, including files that had been deleted, put back together from what was still on it. More about the drive: RammWiki.
Flake's sampler was the keyboard version of the EPS-16 PLUS. The emulator shows the front panel of the rack version, which runs the same operating system; the keyboard below the panel takes the place of the instrument's own keys.
Emulator: Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus Emulator by dudumil, built for the browser. It uses the Musashi 68000 core by Karl Stenerud, ES5505/ES5510 code derived from MAME (BSD-3-Clause) and SDL2 (zlib licence). Ensoniq and EPS-16 PLUS are trademarks of their owners; this site is not affiliated with them.