.ROMs, samples ripped direct from old school casios?

Anyone know a good place to find all the samples from all the old school casio-yamaha type rompler keyboards in one place?

Just all the samples that came from keyboards that everyone had when they were a kid… sounds like “crystal raindrop”, “popcorn”, “shamisen”, “koto”…etc…

I have a yamaha portasound pss-170, and a yamaha portasound pss-280.

They are great sounds for tracking but I was hoping I could get the samples directly ripped from the .ROM for the clarity and not having to put in the effort of recording every key for every sound.

I was hoping I could get the samples directly ripped from the .ROM for the clarity

Well the PSS-170 used a yamaha 2 operator FM/OPL ‘synthesis’ chip, so you would probably find that there is just one basic sine wave stored in rom. In other words there isn’t a 4/8/12 bit ‘Popcorn’ sample that you can just cleanly rip from the rom binary data (even if you had the rom binary data.) You would probably have to reverse engineer the preset data to work out how the operators/envelope/algos ‘FM’ was wired for the ‘Popcorn’ sound (unless someone has already done this feat on the internet) and feed that into say a FM/OPL VST emulator and sample that output.

Noisetoys ‘sampled’ a PSS 150 → https://forum.renoise.com/t/80s-keyboard-samples-yamaha-portasound-pss150/46266However the link is down. Don’t know if someone can upload that again.

Also a couple of PSS 170 ‘samples’ at → http://freewavesamples.com/source/yamaha-pss-170