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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".
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.
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:
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.
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.