SCSI
SCSI (short for Small Computer System Interface) was a standard interface published by ANSI in 1986.
In the first version of the specification, a SCSI bus supports up to eight devices, including the host itself and up to seven peripherals.
In the context of making electronic music in the 1980s and 1990s, SCSI was chiefly used by samplers such as the S1000 to talk to storage devices such as hard drives and CD-ROM drives. This allowed them to store tens or hundreds of megabytes of samples, and load and save them faster than a 3.5" floppy disk drive could, let alone SysEx messages over MIDI.
Example implementations
Studio infrastructure: ACSI | DCB | Eurorack | MIDI | SCSI | Tracks and channels
