stuff dealing with ensoniq eps16+/asr10/ts10

here's my contribution to the ensoniq world. i myself own a good old eps16+, and i love playing with it (although sometimes it doesn't seem to love me giving me <error 144 - reboot?> or similar). but over all the eps is still a powerful machine to make music with. yes, i know, 2 megabytes of sampling ram are really, really hard to use efficiently, but it's also some kind of sport to make good samples with only a few kilobytes :)

using the eps with a scsi interface is real fun. i upgraded the sampler with a scsi kit and attached a harddisk, a cdrom and a zip drive to it. now i can store huge sampling libraries on fast accessible media. the only problem is to keep the overview over the masses of files. i'm currently writing a windows tool to organize ensoniq files on scsi disks and disk images. visit my projects page for more details.

on my journeys through the web i collected some information for you ensoniq enthusiasts out there. some of these documents were hard to find, others you'll find quite easily.

(i am not the author of either of the following documents.)

general info:
eps16+ manual (german)
eps16+ manual (english OCR)
eps16+ reference card (parameter summary)
eps scales and tuning tables (Terje Finstad)
eps16+ service bulletin 03 (power supply diagnostics, main board)
eps16+ service bulletin 11 (hardwiring the keyboard connector)
eps16+ service bulletin 12 (keyboard issues, replaces #9b and #11)

for programmers:
the ensoniq EPS/EPS16+/ASR-10 bank format (Thoralt Franz)
the ensoniq floppy disk format (Gary Giebler)
eps/asr sequence structure (Terje Finstad)
faq on ensoniq file formats (Terje Finstad)
efe file format (Steve Quartly/Gary Giebler)

tools:
epsread & epswrite (for .gkh files)
ensoniq disk extractor 1.07 (writes .ede/eda/eds/edt files)
ensoniq disk extractor 1.09 (writes .ede/eda/eds/edt files)
epsdisk 1.21c (reads/writes/formats ensoniq disks and instruments)