Fostex Foundation 2000

Izok · 12th February 2008

Any user of this sexy baby ?
Fostex Foundation 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm looking for the user manual of the Dacing Fader Control or any other manuals
concerning the Foundation 2000 (not the re system)

If someone could help ?

Thank you.

Izok.

Izok · 15th February 2008

No user of Foundation ?

paul steffen · 15th July 2008

I have a Fostex Foundation 2000 (not the RE system) with the User's Guide, which I've already scanned if you are interested. It covers a few things on the dancing faders mixer including the MIDI spec. I've heard there's a technical manual and service manual for it and I'd love to have a copy of those.

Cheers!

p.s. I notice your in France. I've chatted a few times with a fellow Fostex Foundation owner from there named Lumiere.

Eganmedia · 16th July 2008

Try Welcome to bobmerrill.com!

He was one of the designers at Fostex (formerly NED) when the Foundation was being born. I sold one RE, know where there are at least two more, and have a full Foundation 2000 (no DFM) in storage if you're interested.

I still think the Foundation was the fastest, easiest editor I've ever seen. The "forced" migration to PT made it too difficult to integrate the Foundation into our studios though. Shame. An even bigger shame is that no one has yet matched their scrubbing/ touchscreen integration in another control surface to my knowledge.

paul steffen · 18th July 2008

Thanks for the info! I absolutely love toying around with the Foundation, even if it is currently mostly impractical for working with any computer-based projects. One way I've looked at solving this is to write a fuse driver for the Foundation RPE disk format. An external hot-swappable SCSI drive dock on the Foundation works just as nicely as the internal proprietary one, and with a similar dock on a PC, one could potentially integrate the Foundation fairly nicely into a ProTools environment. Such a fuse filesystem handler for later Fostex machines already exists.

Trapdoor Developer's Collective - The scientific art

I've managed to decode the basics of how raw audio is stored on an RPE drive (in 16bits, interleaved in large chucks per channel) but in order to achieve that lightning-fast non-destructive editing with multiple levels of undo, the engineers had to come up with an elaborate filesystem that would take way too much time to reverse engineer. It would be considerably simpler if someone had the original firmware source code or the RPE filesystem handling code from the defunct Airworx app (which reads RPE projects on a Mac).

I might definitely be interested in another Foundation 2000, especially one with multiple algorithmic cards or the multichannel analog i/o board.

Cheers!

Eganmedia · 19th July 2008

You can try to get a hold of Cameron Jones at Welcome to Synclavier! (his sister is my aunt through marriage). He was one of the founders of New England Digital- makers of the Synclavier. He was one of the primary designers of the Foundation 2000 when Fostex took over NED R&D. He's a great guy and one of the smartest people I've ever met. I don't know whether or not the code is owned by Fostex, but if anyone could make the RPE talk to other computers, he'd probably be the guy.

Izok · 27th August 2008

Hi,
Yes Paul, I'm interested by your scanned manual ! I will pm my email . Thank you

that's a great news !

Eganmedia, you're right, Foundation 2000 is a very fast editor system.
I own one till the beginning and made a Demo for Fostex at the French A/V SATIS.
so many years from now...

. I really enjoyed to work with it.

This unit sounds very great, I dismantled one once and saw that there were apogee builted in converters .

You can get very cheap apogée AD/DA 8 channels now, seen the price of the Foundation...!

12th February 2008	#1
Izok Gear maniac Joined: Oct 2006 Location: France Posts: 223 Thread Starter	Fostex Foundation 2000 Any user of this sexy baby ? Fostex Foundation 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I'm looking for the user manual of the Dacing Fader Control or any other manuals concerning the Foundation 2000 (not the re system) If someone could help ? Thank you. Izok.

15th July 2008	#3
paul steffen Gear interested Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	Fostex Foundation 2000 I have a Fostex Foundation 2000 (not the RE system) with the User's Guide, which I've already scanned if you are interested. It covers a few things on the dancing faders mixer including the MIDI spec. I've heard there's a technical manual and service manual for it and I'd love to have a copy of those. Cheers! p.s. I notice your in France. I've chatted a few times with a fellow Fostex Foundation owner from there named Lumiere.

16th July 2008	#4
Eganmedia Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont USA Posts: 942	Try Welcome to bobmerrill.com! He was one of the designers at Fostex (formerly NED) when the Foundation was being born. I sold one RE, know where there are at least two more, and have a full Foundation 2000 (no DFM) in storage if you're interested. I still think the Foundation was the fastest, easiest editor I've ever seen. The "forced" migration to PT made it too difficult to integrate the Foundation into our studios though. Shame. An even bigger shame is that no one has yet matched their scrubbing/ touchscreen integration in another control surface to my knowledge. __________________ Joe Egan EMP Colchester, VT USA www.eganmedia.com "I feel more like I did when I first got here than I do now."

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15th February 2008	#2
Izok Gear maniac Joined: Oct 2006 Location: France Posts: 223 Thread Starter	No user of Foundation ?

18th July 2008	#5
paul steffen Gear interested Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	Thanks for the info! I absolutely love toying around with the Foundation, even if it is currently mostly impractical for working with any computer-based projects. One way I've looked at solving this is to write a fuse driver for the Foundation RPE disk format. An external hot-swappable SCSI drive dock on the Foundation works just as nicely as the internal proprietary one, and with a similar dock on a PC, one could potentially integrate the Foundation fairly nicely into a ProTools environment. Such a fuse filesystem handler for later Fostex machines already exists. Trapdoor Developer's Collective - The scientific art I've managed to decode the basics of how raw audio is stored on an RPE drive (in 16bits, interleaved in large chucks per channel) but in order to achieve that lightning-fast non-destructive editing with multiple levels of undo, the engineers had to come up with an elaborate filesystem that would take way too much time to reverse engineer. It would be considerably simpler if someone had the original firmware source code or the RPE filesystem handling code from the defunct Airworx app (which reads RPE projects on a Mac). I might definitely be interested in another Foundation 2000, especially one with multiple algorithmic cards or the multichannel analog i/o board. Cheers!

19th July 2008	#6
Eganmedia Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont USA Posts: 942	You can try to get a hold of Cameron Jones at Welcome to Synclavier! (his sister is my aunt through marriage). He was one of the founders of New England Digital- makers of the Synclavier. He was one of the primary designers of the Foundation 2000 when Fostex took over NED R&D. He's a great guy and one of the smartest people I've ever met. I don't know whether or not the code is owned by Fostex, but if anyone could make the RPE talk to other computers, he'd probably be the guy.

27th August 2008	#7
Izok Gear maniac Joined: Oct 2006 Location: France Posts: 223 Thread Starter	Hi, Yes Paul, I'm interested by your scanned manual ! I will pm my email . Thank you that's a great news ! Eganmedia, you're right, Foundation 2000 is a very fast editor system. I own one till the beginning and made a Demo for Fostex at the French A/V SATIS. so many years from now... . I really enjoyed to work with it. This unit sounds very great, I dismantled one once and saw that there were apogee builted in converters . You can get very cheap apogée AD/DA 8 channels now, seen the price of the Foundation...!