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1556
In an earler message, I mentioned developing an A-Roll compatibility for my roll scanner. Last night, it all came together. For pics and comments, see: ...
Terry Smythe
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Oct 3, 2004
4:26 pm
1557
... Hi Terry, How do you handle the holes on the a-roll that turn on/off the other 'voices'? For example, my A-roll playing piano has a hole the drops the...
John Haskey
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Oct 3, 2004
10:14 pm
1558
... The CIS scan file does contain all the data within the original A-Roll. The conversion to a midi type 1 file simply ignores those perfs unrelated to the...
Terry Smythe
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Oct 3, 2004
11:17 pm
1559
... Tim, Many thanks for your inquiry. My apologies for the delay in responding. With winter around the corner, we've been very busy battening down the...
Terry Smythe
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Oct 10, 2004
3:11 pm
1560
Couple days ago, my dedicated 366mhz roll scanning computer stopped short, seemingly never to go again. The motherboard seemed to have died. To keep...
Terry Smythe
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Oct 28, 2004
11:00 pm
1561
Greetings Rollscanners, My scanner that is based on Richard's system uses a built in 266 MHZ pentium. It runs faster and gives better results than any other...
Spencer Chase
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Oct 29, 2004
6:26 am
1562
Hi Terry, Very interesting results that you are seeing with the faster computer. Are you using the LAVA parallel port card to connect to the MK3a board or are...
WTrachtman
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Oct 30, 2004
2:42 pm
1563
Just curious whether a larger RAM memory and changing the buffer allocation in a faster computer would help? Of if there are speed tests which indicate why an...
Craig Brougher
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Oct 30, 2004
4:25 pm
1564
... When my old 366mhz computer appeared to die, I transferred its harddrive and LAVA card into my faster 1.8Ghz workbench computer. Then, on the faster...
Terry Smythe
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Oct 31, 2004
3:22 am
1565
Greetings Rollscanners, My tests with a few different computers were all done with a lava card. The faster computers were very much worse. I have no idea why, ...
Spencer Chase
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Oct 31, 2004
6:58 am
1566
I realize that for now at least, we can get away with running an old computer to make things work ok, but that isn't going to solve the problem ultimately, as...
Craig Brougher
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Oct 31, 2004
11:59 am
1567
Regarding the scanning problems of the current discussion, all of the difficulties mentioned are symptoms of a design flaw, not any fundamental limits of the...
Bill Wetzel
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Oct 31, 2004
1:09 pm
1568
I have not written to the group for quite a while. A little over 2 months ago I took delivery of my wide format scanner from Gerety Engineering and have...
Jack Breen
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Oct 31, 2004
4:13 pm
1569
Hi Jack, Although I understand that Gene has delivered some 2-CIS unit scanners that are working using the Rollscan1 board, that solution (to my knowledge at ...
WTrachtman
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Oct 31, 2004
5:48 pm
1570
... I have two rollscan-1 boards setting on the shelf here. Was there ever a distribution of the 'final' documentation and software that works?...
John Haskey
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Oct 31, 2004
9:41 pm
1571
Even when you boot into dos under windows, Most of the windows services are still running in the background. My dedicated CNC machine boots into pure dos. If I...
julie porter
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Nov 1, 2004
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1572
... I have wondered about the same thing. Microchip makes about 50 types of PIC controller that costs almost nothing. I have used the PIC16F628 for my...
Pete Knobloch
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Nov 1, 2004
4:06 pm
1573
Following a 6 week absence while Eleanor and I took an extended road trip, I finally got back to roll scanning and now have another batch available for...
Terry Smythe
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Nov 8, 2004
5:51 am
1574
Recently, an Apollo reproducing piano roll was sent to me for scanning. (Not an Apollo X) First one I've seen in 40+ years. It is: #3405 Madame...
Terry Smythe
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Nov 21, 2004
1:15 am
1575
Hello Terry and all, The Artecho and later Apollo roll series (having labels of the style shown in your example) are indeed identical, as Art Reblitz and...
David Saul
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Nov 21, 2004
3:43 am
1576
Terry, That's right about the Apollo Art Echo. They are one and the same. It had a "sub-intensity like the Ampico B, and can be converted to play Ampico rolls ...
Craig Brougher
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Nov 21, 2004
12:56 pm
1577
Many thanks for the feedback on this Apollo (ArtEcho) roll. In my splendid isolation up here in Winterpeg, this is the first time I've seen one of these rolls....
Terry Smythe
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Nov 22, 2004
2:43 pm
1578
I have just finished building my third, and last, roll scanner - Yet Another Roll Scanner 2. As before. it is patterned after my own scanner which is...
Terry Smythe
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Nov 28, 2004
12:50 am
1579
Terry, What a great solution to a difficult problem. There's a perfect way to scan all kinds of rolls accurately. And I really love the encoder floppy thingy! ...
Craig Brougher
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Nov 28, 2004
1:24 pm
1580
... I am curious about a TIF to CIS to MIDI piece of software. We acquired 24 or so QRS rolls a while back and looked around for a method to convert the TIF...
halfmeg
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Dec 14, 2004
9:31 pm
1581
Just a brief note to let everyone know that my 15th batch of roll scans in midi form is now available. There are 183 titles in this batch, bringing the...
Terry Smythe
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Dec 15, 2004
4:13 am
1582
OOPS! My apologies, I provided an incorrect URL to find and fetch my latest batch 15 of piano roll scans. It should have read: ...
Terry Smythe
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Dec 15, 2004
2:34 pm
1583
Regarding the use of a flatbed scanner, I've been using a Mustek Scan Express A3 USB with software written by jp jouandet, a member of this forum. His program...
Frank
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Dec 16, 2004
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1584
For Sale: ~1,100 player piano rolls, mostly 88n. This is not your typical 88n roll collection. This one has within it a huge array of rare ragtime,...
Terry Smythe
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Dec 17, 2004
10:42 pm
1585
While I have not yet received my own membership copy of the AMICA Bulletin, it has been brought to my attention that in the current issue, in addition to my...
Terry Smythe
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Dec 18, 2004
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