Roland GS SCC-1

[Narcisus]

Well .... Helping my best mates mum by sorting out and selling all his old kit .....

Todays collection has turned up a Roland SCC-1 !

I do remember him buying it now it looks like I will have to build an old system to test it out haha !

Funny because I've just bought a 486DX-50 which was my first PC Processor I was going to mount it in a frame now I'll have a chance to really see if the eBay sellers claim of it working is true !!

[tribbles]

Oddly, I found two WaveBlaster compatible cards yesterday.

The first was a Yamaha-based unit which was okay - the second was a Kurzweil-based unit, which we rebadged at the company I worked for. This one was a customer returned unit that went wrong years after it was sold, and I never got working.

I appears as thoigh the Roland SCD-10 / 15 were the WaveBlaster equivalent of the SCC-1.

[Narcisus]

tribbles said:

Oddly, I found two WaveBlaster compatible cards yesterday.

The first was a Yamaha-based unit which was okay - the second was a Kurzweil-based unit, which we rebadged at the company I worked for. This one was a customer returned unit that went wrong years after it was sold, and I never got working.

I appears as thoigh the Roland SCD-10 / 15 were the WaveBlaster equivalent of the SCC-1.

That's interesting ! I think I still have my full size AWE32 kicking about somewhere in the loft.

I nearly fell of my chair yesterday when I did a search on eBay and the SCC-1 is selling for around 500 quid ! There is a sealed and boxed on in Germany or Italy for 3.5k !

Of course pricing it at that and actually selling it is another matter .... There are SCC-1's though that have actually sold for £500 +

[Jinx]

Green with envy over here - had to make with an Adlib sound card in my Amstrad PC1640 in 1992...

$499 new No wonder I had an Adlib card (which was £69 new IIRC).

https://archive.org/details/1992-09-compute-magazi...

Edited by Jinx on Monday 5th June 14:26

[Narcisus]

I remember when he first got it playing Dune and was amazed the quality.

I started out with an 8 bit Adlib card in the early days then moved onto a 16bit blaster followed by an Orchid Soundwave 32 then an Awe32.

After that it’s all kind of blurry over the years …

[Narcisus]

And here it is

[Jinx]

Narcisus said:

And here it is

Very nice - looks a little better than the Adlib I had:



Served me well that PC though - used it all through university (I was one of the few people who wasn't handing in hand-written work) and finally upgraded to a 486 machine (with a sound blaster 16) long after the 8086 machine should have been put out to pasture.

[nebpor]

Nice find! I’m a roland fanboy …. Shame there are no solutions to make these work on a modern PC these days

[Narcisus]

Yeah I’m desperate to test it and thought I would knock up a quick 486 build them saw the prices now on eBay !

There is an old pc at my mums that has a very, very slight chance of having an ISA slot ….

Looking at the prices now and thinking of the probably thousands of machines I’ve just binned over the years.

[nebpor]

Don’t start me - the amount of kit thrown away that is now either useful or valuable!

I have a Yamaha SW1000XG card in a drawer. It’s PCI but can’t work in 64bit. When I upgrade this PC shortly I might put XP32 back on the old motherboard and have a vintage card and SCSI machine - I use SCSI with my samplers and it’s a pain in the hoop on 64 bit windows …. Randomly decides to stop working etc, and none of the old debug tools work

[Narcisus]

Ooohh that Yamaha card ! I remember having great fun messing with the Yam XG soft are synth.

On another not my 486DX 50 processor arrived today so that’s the first bit !

[nebpor]

Yes it was a lovely card, plus like the Roland a full synth if you dig into sending it control changes and sysex!

Good luck on your DX adventure