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Synhouse has customers in 42 countries.
Synhouse ships to your country and has since before eBay existed.
If you are looking at a small/normal item in the Synhouse eBay listings
and seeing no shipping options to your area or seeing a notice that
says the seller doesn't ship to your address, this is incorrect. I've
been shipping to Australia, England, etc. since 1990, five years before
eBay even existed, and eBay has deleted ALL the shipping options and
prices I've spent many hours setting up, in order to enable eBay
International Shipping, and then tells people in the most commonly
shipped to countries that shipping is not available there. This is fake
and idiotic; eBay had already been shipping there with the eBay Global
Shipping Program for a few years, now says they don't with eBay
International Shipping AND deleted my own shipping options without my
permission or knowledge, when it could have and should have been left
in place as an option because at least it WORKS and eBay doesn't know
what they are doing.
This goes WAY back to 2017 with people in New Zealand (one of the most
commonly shipped to Synhouse countries) telling me that I don't ship
there, and 1) multiple calls to eBay didn't solve it, 2) they sometimes
said they solved it but didn't, and 3) said "Uhm, wait 24 hours and it
will be working.", which is how eBay gets you off the phone. And I
could never get that New Zealand problem solved. The new problem since
early 2023 is eBay deleting my own shipping options in order to put
theirs in, then theirs tells people no, the seller doesn't ship there,
but I CAN manually set up a shipping method (usually with Synhouse it's
one price each for USA, Canada, Asia/Australia, and the rest of the
world.
Now I'm getting messages like these:
5/16/2023: Hi, Wondering how much shipping would be to Canada, postal
code T2N 2P7. Thanks!
Can you enable the ebay international shipping option for me? I am very
interested.
1/1/2024: Hi there can you post to London uk and how much would postage
be?
Hi how much would postage be to London England
Thanks for your reply. Im trying to check out but im get the message
saying seller doesn't ship to your address. Please advise as i really
need the new faceplate.
1/30/2024: Hello synhouse, I have a T8 and would like to buy your
Optical-Emitter-Set just to make sure to have it in the future. Is
there a reason you don't ship to Germany?
If you see that any small/normal Synhouse item does not ship to
you/your area, this is FAKE and wrong, please send an eBay message to
tell me and I can manually enter shipping to your area AGAIN.
Sorry for this incompetent platform I've been struggling with for 25
years now...
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This is an
expanded Synclavier Winchester hard drive that
has
a massively upgraded real-time operating system and is loaded with
all versions of the entire New
England Digital Timbre Library.
This contains 2,909 sound samples from NED.
This is a massive collection of pop and orchestral sounds. It has
drums, bass, percussion, cymbals, grand piano, more keyboards, strings,
brass, guitars, woodwinds with saxophones and more, and orchestra hits.
The New
England Digital Timbre Library includes orchestral and pop
sounds.
NED advertising referred to this
thousand-megabyte
collection
as "the standard-bearer for sampled musical instrumental libraries".
This is a
bootable modern (relatively modern, for 50-pin SCSI drives, that is)
3.5" Synclavier SCSI Winchester drive that is loaded with Synclavier
sampled sounds and software. It is a 1990s style 1gb or 2gb SCSI drive, a
bare 3.5" 50-pin SCSI drive with no SCSI case or ATS enclosure, so you
will mount it in your own SCSI enclosure (unless you have the trademark
Synclav com 1U Superfloppy rack which has two places to mount a 3.5"
hard drive, beside one Superfloppy drive or behind/below two
Superfloppy drives), or in the built-in drive tray if you have a
Synclavier 3200, Synclavier 6400, Synclavier 9600, PostPro, or PostPro
SD.
It will ship set in the most standard Synclavier SCSI configuration,
which is terminated and set to be the main bootable system drive. This
means that, regardless of what connectors you have on the inside of the
panel, outside, or 34-36-50-pin adapters it may be going through, this
is just to be connected directly to the Synclavier D24 or D24/50 SCSI
card and will not need any jumper changes or terminator put on it.
This 2.14gb Seagate SCSI drive is 3x the size of any Winchester
drive that NED ever sold, and faster than their last (the Wren 6
variety).
I'm supplying this as a bare drive instead of in a SCSI case (2
pounds in the case of the smallest computer store desktop case, 35
pounds for the original NED blue ATS Winchester case [of which I have
about 35 of in my warehouse]) because it will save a lot of money on
shipping, especially
overseas. Postal shipping prices for a hard drive sent overseas are
just about 100% more than they were ten years ago in 2009.
About the New England Digital Timbre
Library:
This is actually not just one library
for
sale, but at least two (possibly three), because the NED library was
revised and updated.
This is not only the entire New England
Digital Timbre Library from 1985 (aka NED I), but it is also the
New England Digital Timbre Library II from 1987.
BTW, Synclav com recently provided the Synclavier and programming for a
project with Alan Silvestri music, and I can confirm that the New
England Digital Timbre Library was used for the work on the soundtrack
of the movie Predator.
It has all the timbre
floppies copied in here, everything. Just the subcatalog "[NED2]" (see
photos) has 90 subcatalogs, each with 8 banks of 8 timbres, or 90
Superfloppy disks copied in there!
This also has
NED III, but I don't have clear documentation as to what that is. It
appears to be only 24 megabytes and could be just some additional
sounds that were added on to the existing libraries.
In
my view, these
New England Digital Timbre Library sounds are truly excellent and the
best way to get the most out of a
Synclavier that doesn't have a huge amount of RAM. The original New
England Digital
Timbre Library sounds are from
November 1, 1985, during the time when a Synclavier would commonly have
1mb or 2mb of RAM, and 4mb was a huge system (that is what the Glen
Glenn Sound/Jim Wolvington Synclavier profiled in the September 1986
Mix Magazine Film Sound/sound effects/sound design issue had, 4mb of
RAM), they had to be compact to be useful. These were the absolute best
sounds available
from
any company at the time.
When NED was in business, this huge
library had to be shipped on many 15mb data backup tapes or one 2gb
WORM optical disk.
The photos show actual screenshots to show you just a small
portion of the contents:
There
are seven major subcatalogs inside, just two of which are 438 megabytes and 500 megabytes each.
One view in the upper left shows the
software main menu.
The next view below that one on the
left shows the names of seven major subcatalogs listed together in the
top level Winchester catalog using the MONITOR view.
All the rest of the different views
(going down the left column to the bottom left, then starting again at
the top right and going down to the bottom right) show the next level
of contents in the seven major subcatalogs using the FORMCOPY view.
Each one of those "LSubc" subcatalogs has many more subcatalogs and
sounds nested inside it. This is the way of the NED XPL file
system. Here's the thing, timbres (patch files that map the sounds to
the keyboard and set the parameters, etc.) existed only in a file named
.NEWDATA. Sounds crazy, but that is how it was, not .NEWDATA1,
.NEWDATA2, just .NEWDATA. Since two files can't be in the same place on
any computer with the same name, each one has to be tucked away in its
own subcatalog (like a folder on a PC). To access those sounds, you
just navigate from the top level directory (W0:) to the library you
want, like NED1, then enter BASS1, and so on to get to a .NEWDATA file,
and those 64 appear on your A Timbre Directory page, or on the 8 x 8
keyboard button banks if you want to select from there.
You can navigate yourself to the
library you want just by using the mouse and clicking on the D.
Subcatalog Directory page, then clicking the one you want in that page.
Before the mouse and the menu-driven operating system (like this one
sold here), you had to go to the ready prompt and type XPL commands to
change the directory you were in.
There are more system files and utilities that are not shown because
they are in an "LSubc" subcatalog.
To see the
timbre files (patch files that map the sounds to the keyboard and set
the parameters, etc.) included in this library, see the photo of the
scan of a page from the rare ML Music Library
manual explaining all the
keyboard layouts, and that is just what you will see in the subcatalog
"[NED]" (see photos).
This is much
more than is listed below. This is not only the entire New England
Digital Timbre Library from 1985 (aka NED I), but it is also the
New England Digital Timbre Library II from 1987. It has all the timbre
floppies copied in here, everything. Just the subcatalog "[NED2]" (see
photos) has 90 subcatalogs, each with 8 banks of 8 timbres, or 90
Superfloppy disks copied in there!
This also has
NED III, but I don't have documentation as to what that is.
About the Synclavier Software (Real Time
Program):
This is a bootable W0 system hard drive with much improved software,
Synclavier Digital Corporation/DEMAS
Release 4.03 for the New
England Digital Synclavier Digital Audio System. This version is from
September 1997, five years after NED closed down.
I should note that Release
4.03 is important because it introduced removable hard drives (Jaz,
Data Express, etc.) as a replacement for tape backups and for the
recording media itself, and 4.03 eliminated the ADB EVE Key that was
kind of a buggy pain. I absolutely have to use at least this
one on some systems and for some types of jobs.
Other than that, Release 4.03 was
just a slightly reworked version of Release 4.02 from
May 1, 1997, five years after NED closed down.
I should note that Release 4.02 is
one of the all time best Releases for the Synclavier,
and far better than some that came after it. I used it for a few years
and returned to it a few times, I could use it forever if I had to.
Synclavier 4.02 had a vastly improved
SCSI system, which had been a problem in previous Releases (I actually
use 4.02 install disk one every day, it can format drives that previous
versions can't), and allowed removable hard drives (like Jaz, Zip,
etc.) as the system Winchester or secondary drive, and magneto-opticals
as well. It also allowed the formatting of hard drives as optical
drives. I never got into this myself, but composers swear by it because
it lets the user sort sounds by instrument/sound category. It was
claimed that this Release also allowed the use of 9.1gb drives
(actually formatted out to 8.2gb), but I never really confirmed that
this wasn't possible before.
A super handy thing is that it
showed large catalogs and subcatalogs in megabytes instead of NED XPL
"sectors", which are confusing and result in huge numbers in these
larger drives. See the screenshots to see both in use by
the MONITOR utility software (included).
This drive is in
excellent condition,
configured to work as a main bootable system drive, and is terminated.
I
checked it myself and took the screenshot photos below.
A note about installing this in a
newer xx00 style Synclavier Control Unit:
This drive can be installed
inside the Synclavier tower (Control Unit)
itself because this is the correct type of drive and is terminated.
Just a cable from the D24 SCSI card to this drive, that's it, no
external terminator or anything else needed. But if you need to connect
additional drives externally, it will have to be inline with that
cable, or you'll have to change the jumpers to turn the termination off
so that your terminator can be the snap-on type outside the machine on
the back of whatever drive(s) you are using there.
This can be done very easily in the Synclavier 3200, Synclavier 6400,
Synclavier 9600, PostPro, and PostPro SD, as they have an internal
drive tray (for up to three SCSI devices in some cases), and the
hardware mounting can be done with a standard computer store
5.25"-to-3.5" adapter plate or side mounts, or by redrilling the holes
in the tray (be sure to remove other drives first or the drill
vibrations could damage them), or simply by using a single screw to
hold the drive in place (recommended only for Synclaviers that always
stay set up in the same place.
For rack mount internal installation in earlier Synclaviers, such as
retrofit upgraded Synclavier IIs, Synclavier PSS, and Synclavier PSMTs,
as many of you have seen on custom ordered Synclaviers from
Synhouse/Synclav com,
much more work is required, as they don't have the mounts, data cabling
or power cabling required, and often don't even have the space
available, so this is best for those with a lot of hardware and tooling
skills. Or just get the trademark Synclav com 1U Superfloppy rack which
has two places to mount a 3.5" hard drive, beside one Superfloppy drive
or behind/below two Superfloppy drives.
For users of other
brands who do not have a
Synclavier, here is a question
and answer that relates to these
Synclavier Winchester library auctions:
Dear
synhouse,
Hi,
since
the item has scsi, can the library be accessed with other scsi
peripherals for use with modern computers, or is the item only
compatible with a synclavier. Thanks
Thanks for writing about the auction. Thanks especially for writing before
bidding.
No, you need a Synclavier
to use a Synclavier sound library.
The fact that the Synclavier SCSI-1 style interface is somewhat
compatible to the SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and other SCSI interfaces on other
computers and peripherals isn't a sufficient common bond and really
doesn't matter. I say "Synclavier SCSI-1 style" because NED was making
and using their own SCSI drive
systems before any SCSI drives even existed in the computer stores.
What matters is that a computer needs to 1) be able to read the file
system on any piece of media (i.e., you can't connect a NeXT computer
disk to a Windows 7 PC and read it), and 2) a digital audio system
(sampler, DAW, computer with sound card, etc.) needs to be able to read
the digital audio file format.
If you don't have a Synclavier, you
don't have anything that can play these files, nor even look at the
directory.
Defects:
None whatsoever. This works perfectly, this is super clean and
collector's choice, as I like to say
about the best items I sell.
Shipping:
This has been handled properly from
beginning to end, and will be
handled properly and properly packed in proper anti-static packaging,
unlike the vast majority of sellers on eBay. As you can see in the
photos, it is touching only proper anti-static packaging and nothing
else. Not carpet, not plastic table tops, not sandwich bags.
The flat shipping rates to various
locations worldwide are shown on this listing.
There is NO remaining way for me to
send items like this overseas for less,
sorry. I accidentally undercharged on several items recently.
However, you may see the eBay Global
Shipping option there, it's a price I can't see, but it's always the
cheapest on heavy items, on this, it may or may not be cheaper than my
own shipping option shown here. You can choose the one you want.
If you are buying other eBay items I have for sale, let me know and I
will give you a heavily discounted combined shipping rate.
Please see my other listings for
other rare NED software, sounds, and manuals that I may have for sale
at the moment.