My Atari STE is down , the power supply went on it

[rcamp48]

I have had a little bit of bad luck on my newly acquired Atari STE , (I just picked up an Atari STE, color and monochrome monitors, 2 Megafile 30s, and a Megafile 60 , some type of 5.25 inch drive for the Atari ST, 2 external 3.5 inch drives and a lot of software to go with it). All of this I offered $700 for the guy took my offer, it may have been too much, it may have ben too little but the point is that I am happy with the system. And being 40 years old the power supply loosing one cap is not too bad , I will get the three hard drives all recapped as well as the monitors , floppy drives rebuilt or recapped as well.

 

Having said all of that I have some equipment that I have questions about, one is a Realistic Stereo Mixing Console that has been totally rebuild and gifted to me  , the other is an Axiom 25 keyboard controller , which I have had for 3-4 years. Th third piece of equipment is a 5 port (one port in and 5 ports thru) MIDI router, it has been very useful but I don't yet know if I can use the mixer or keyboard controller (I actually don't know a ting about the keyboard controller).

 

Maybe there is someone out there that has used something like this before.

 

Russ Campbell

 

[Shredder11]

Have a look at this video from two days ago, where someone refurbs an ST and replaces the PSU with a cheap modern one. He thought about recapping the old one etc, but went with a brand new modern one instead.  He seems to be very passionate about the Atari ST and STE in general and fixing them up, so his channel is well worth exploring.

 

https://youtu.be/WXL3SDvrkx0

 

Click on this link to jump straight to the part where he replaces the PSU

[Shredder11]

I have a little Alesis Photon X25 which can operate standalone using the MIDI I/O ports, without the need for a desktop PC via USB. If yours is the same then you can plug it directly into your Atari STE.

 

The 5-way THRU box you mention can be used to expand your STE MIDI output, to feed five synths etc although each port will only be a duplicate of the the main STE output data. It does mean you can avoid daisy chaining one synth to the next, and causing MIDI audio lag though.  You could instead plug the Axiom MIDI OUT into the 5-way THRU box, and feed your STE and other devices at the same time.  All depends on what you have in mind really, but usually THRU boxes are for controlling multiple synths from one keyboard.

 

The Atari STE is the perfect companion to MIDI sequencers like Steinberg Cubase, and that sequencer can also run a free sampler playback plugin called E.P.S.S. This can play up to eight samples at once on the STE, possibly more if using a Mega STE.

 

Copson EPSS (Original install files from 1993)

 

EPSS YouTube demonstration inside Steinberg Cubase with a MIDI file

 

EPSS YouTube demonstration inside Steinberg Cubase on an STE using 8 audio sample channels

 

Copson EPSS (New regularly updated project giving it even more power and functionality)

 

Not sure what to recommend about the little black mixer.  I used to have a four channel Realistic model in 1990/1, used as a sub-mixer to connect all my synths to a single channel on my 4-track Yamaha MT-100 MkII cassette recorder.  I suppose yours could be used to connect microphones to something like that.  Maybe grab a cheap sampler cartridge and connect the mixer to its audio input? For fun you could chop up some audio into small samples and use them in the EPSS player in Cubase?

[bfollowell]

I used a cheap Meanwell PSU from Digikey. I think the one in the video in @Shredder11's first video is a Meanwell, though a different model than the one I used.

 

My STE's PSU wasn't bad. It was just a U.K. model and I needed to convert it for U.S. use.

 

 

Edited September 20 by bfollowell