I recently set up my E5000 with Zuonics tool, bought after the price reduction - how can you say no now ? It worked perfectly after I sorted out my SCSI connection - termination at the PC end with an internal drive (zip), another zip on the chain with a SCSI hard drive. The PC had SCSI ID7, Internal Drives 6, External 5 and 4, and the Ultra ID 0, ignoring the PC on 7 with internal termination set to on in the sampler, and an internal IDE drive inside.
My SCSI controller is an old PCI Tekram 310-Ultra SCSI, and all the cables are nice chunky well shielded ones.
If you have anything wrong - like a shared ID on the sampler and on the chain, you will get Gen Traps, boot problems, PC startup problems, or just plain old "can't see sampler". Of course, I had to do the usual 8 search for driver for the sampler dance when XP found it again.
I also run ASPI 4.72 to complete the software interface side on XP to the apps.
The tool looks very impressive and I'll need a while to work through it, but that, coupled with Mobius from Squarecircle (squarecircle.co.uk) to transfer/slide/dice samplers from the PC to the Sampler without having to muck around with FAT32 shared drives is working like a charm.
It does work - and looks like a very capable bit of kit.
After a couple of years of using software samplers I've moved firmly back to the hardware world - Sampler, and resurrected analog gear. My workflow and focus has improved a lot in the short time back in front of the desk and kit and I'm sure my output will be equally tight.
No more plugins!
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