Hi, Crazy unique idea… How about writing an importer that loads and Decodes EPROMS from the LinnDrum 1+2/ Drumulator/ DMX/ DrumTrax/ SP-12/ Lindrum9000/ Akai XR-10/ Kawai R50/100 etc…
inspired by this mindblowing VST drum machine which runs on real Eproms
original Eproms in the hardware of the S2400’s 12bit engine would sound great.
it’s can’t be that complicated? 
aly is a great guy who writes awesome music software!
It already exists though - sox will do this. SoX - Sound eXchange download | SourceForge.net
you just need to carefully construct command lines
these will prob work -
μ-law encoded like LinnDrum or DMX
sox -t raw -e mu-law -b 8 -r 32000 input.bin -t wav -e signed -b 16 -r 48000 output.wav
linear pcm like drumulator or drumtrax
sox -t raw -e unsigned -b 8 -r 32000 input.bin -t wav -e signed -b 16 -r 48000 output.wav
If the audio is distorted, noisy, or pitched weirdly, adjust sample rate (-r) or encoding (-e).
If there is unused data you can trim it with sox, too, with the trim effect
there are other utils here as well
They are old dos/windows apps but will probably run on Wine or Crossover on a Mac
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