Okay, i love my es-1 mkII despite the fact i know it's a little dated, basically i've used up all the internal memory, is there anyway of getting some more memory? 95 seconds isn't that long really, i know the newer versions can take 285 seconds or so, is it a case of upgrading and therefore reprogramming all my tunes? Help me out please!
Ta very much,
Will
Extra memory for ES1-MKII?
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I may be wrong, but i think the memory is soldered onto the electribes and isn't upgradeable in the traditional sense. I'm sure people have tried and the operating system doesn't see the extra memory.
At least if you do have to upgrade to the ESX-1 , it's always in stock and readily available online.
Hope that helps you out.
At least if you do have to upgrade to the ESX-1 , it's always in stock and readily available online.
Hope that helps you out.
You can expand the memory in a primitive way, but its very fiddly. The ES-1 contains a flash RAM chip that it holds all the samples in when you power down. On power up, it loads these samples from the flash RAM into its main working memory RAM chips. This is what its doing when you see the "electribe" writing scrolling across the screen on startup.
If you put a larger flash RAM chip in it AND a larger memory RAM chip in it, that theoretically should work. Larger RAM chips have more address pins on them than what the original ones do - so they won't directly use the extra memory if you put the larger ones in (no space for the extra legs on the circuit board). What you then do is have a toggle switch that switches these extra lines to active or inactive to access the extra memory sectors.
The downside? Each extra memory changed by the toggle switch is isolated from the next. In other words, it won't increase the sample time in EACH bank. It will only give you multiple banks of the stock ES-1 memory capacity. Also, you can't save a sample to "memory bank 1" and switch it over to "memory bank 2" and then try to access that sample. Unless you load it also into memory bank 2. And you can't have a song or pattern with a sample in memory 1 and memory 2. You can only access the samples that are in the bank you are in at the time.
Which is still better than nothing - but after buying the bits and soldering and connecting (assuming you know how to do this, and that it DOES work) you may as well just save up for a used ESX and enjoy the ACTUAL longer sampling time and memory, with no work needed to be done.
I've done this type of memory expansion to some of my equipment (Alesis MMT-8 sequencer, Casio SK-8 sampler) and it does work well for them, because they have such small memory space, and there are no better equivalents of them available with more memory. But since the ESX is available, you may as well get it.
Cheers, Graham
If you put a larger flash RAM chip in it AND a larger memory RAM chip in it, that theoretically should work. Larger RAM chips have more address pins on them than what the original ones do - so they won't directly use the extra memory if you put the larger ones in (no space for the extra legs on the circuit board). What you then do is have a toggle switch that switches these extra lines to active or inactive to access the extra memory sectors.
The downside? Each extra memory changed by the toggle switch is isolated from the next. In other words, it won't increase the sample time in EACH bank. It will only give you multiple banks of the stock ES-1 memory capacity. Also, you can't save a sample to "memory bank 1" and switch it over to "memory bank 2" and then try to access that sample. Unless you load it also into memory bank 2. And you can't have a song or pattern with a sample in memory 1 and memory 2. You can only access the samples that are in the bank you are in at the time.
Which is still better than nothing - but after buying the bits and soldering and connecting (assuming you know how to do this, and that it DOES work) you may as well just save up for a used ESX and enjoy the ACTUAL longer sampling time and memory, with no work needed to be done.
I've done this type of memory expansion to some of my equipment (Alesis MMT-8 sequencer, Casio SK-8 sampler) and it does work well for them, because they have such small memory space, and there are no better equivalents of them available with more memory. But since the ESX is available, you may as well get it.
Cheers, Graham