Emax

On 30 Dec 2003 at 12:31, Luke Fowler wrote:

> 1) Has anyone outthere found ANY Way at all to expand the sample memory of
> my emax 1 - either with chips or a new Hard drive?

Nope there isn't a way it's all proprietary. Unless your model already had a hard drive 
(which you could then modify it to support an external Zip drive).
 
> 2) I use Win 2000 and a PC, What is the METHOD to get Samples from PC floppy
> onto the EMAX floppies. Someone mentioned soundforge ? Does the EMX
> translator only work with Win 98??

EMX is not a translator. It's a disk imager. It simply extracts/write the sectors on the 
diskettes that have bank information or OS information. It does not know what it is 
copying. To run correctly it requires you be in DOS 6.1 or earlier. With Windows 9.x a 
reboot into DOS mode will allow you to work with bank data only, to work with OS data 
you need to be in actual DOS 6.1 or earlier.

> 3) If I do get Soundforge sample dump working  - is it generally better
> practice to sample directly into the Emax or to go into the computer and
> then save the files as 16bit before dumping onto Emax?

For the best quality samples you need to do what professional sample creators do, you 
need good preamps, compressor/limiters, and eq. Sampling into something like Sound 
Forge is easier IMHO because you can graphically work with the samples, you can 
Normalize them, use effects, and overall work on samples in a way the Emax absolutely 
can not do, plus the enviroment is a much more efficient method than going through all 
the menus on the Emax's tiny screen.
 
> 4)what can I use the Emax 1's 9 pin  "computer interface" port  for these
> days - Zip drive? An external hard drive?

It is for use with a older Macs running old copies of the Alchemy software. The only 
computer editor to actually have a true Emax module built in.

> because now I have a fully working lovely Emax 1 - the only frustrating
> thing is the limitation to 512 K even 1mb sample time would be better!! But
> this is what I will have to make do with and I love the analog filters.

When it came time for expandable memory they introduced the Emax II, of course 
though you get some of the best sounding digital filters out there, they are not the same 
as the ones on the Emax. Of course, to me, the best use of those filters are analog and 
drum type samples for which 512k is enough memory.

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