I'd like to find an Ensoniq that used the old Smartmedia memory cards... especially if it can also format those cards.
I didn't know Ensoniq ever used those? I have a Roland JP-8080 which uses the rare 5V SmartMedia. Those cards go for $80 - $150 on eBay (well, that is the asking price.) The 3.3V ones are dirt cheap and large in storage capacity vs the 2MB/4MB 5V ones. I think you could do a resistor voltage divider on the VCC pin of the card and convert the machines to run on a 3.3v since there is a separate logic voltage pin on the card that according to datasheet could handle 5V -- but research it first. I got my 5V 2MB card by buying a Fuji camera from eBay that came with the card for ~$15. True story, the camera is at the NJ police department right now, it was stolen from the back of my friend's truck before the last swapmeet but then the police recovered all the stuff. The curse of the camera, all I wanted was the card but I can't get rid of the camera. The camera can use 3.3v cards too. The Roland SP-303 I think also uses SmartMedia, and maybe something from Boss? Boss is a sub-brand of Roland and Roland seemed to use Smartmedia the most. My first digital camera (Epson PhotoPC) had a 16MB smart media I think, but it was 3.3V. The Apple Quicktake 150 I believe uses the 5V ones that are hard to get -- that along with Roland are probably the entire market for the 5V SmartMedia cards. Most of the Ensoniq stuff I have had in my hands (Mirage, TS-12, ASR-10, SQ-2, others) were either ROM cart (SQ), floppy based (Mirage, TS-12, ASR-10), or SCSI (ASR-10.) The TS-12 has a SCSI option that is super rare, but someone re-makes it. That gives it the option to load data from an ASR-10, with some limitations. Not sure if others use Smartmedia cards, will research. The ASR-10 is the popular/expensive Ensoniq on the market since it was used in hiphop (Pharrel/N.E.R.D., Timbaland and Wutang Clan to name a few.) People used it similar to how the Akai MPC series machines are used. Record phrases from vinyl, cut up the sample and assign the chunks to different keys, then play them back out of sequence to make something new. - Ethan