Emax

Dear Luke,
In absense of sample memory expansion chips, upgrades, etc. I have found that if you go through EACH sample and truncate (get rid of) unwanted or unuseful material, you gain back a good amount of memory. Also try re-sampling some of the sounds/samples at a lower rate. If they sound a little bit "hissy" try filtering the sound in the output filters. I've had much success using the time varient amp filter in inverse mode, acting as a "noise gate" so that when the sound decays, so does the hiss. I have also sampled in "Stereo" on the EMAX I using the threshold start feature and feeding each channel seperately (in multi sample mode) then panning each sample hard left and right. I then check for sample start in truncate mode to correct any possible pahse shift problems.Always try using a lower sample rate and fine adjust the filters for getting rid of the "grunge".....Good luck and Have fun!
Jerrylarosalarosa

Luke Fowler <luke.fowler@...> wrote:

Hello There

I am new to the list and have just purchased a EMAX 1 keyboard s/h - I
believe it to be the standard Keyboard model as it only has 524288 k when
empty and runs Software Rev 3.2.  I haved looked extensively through the
archives and there are still a few queries that I need answered regarding my
Emax 1.

I am pessimistic but here goes!!!

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?


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??

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?


4)what can I use the Emax 1's 9 pin  "computer interface" port  for these
days - Zip drive? An external hard drive?

I also have some advice to offer for other S/H emax buyers I bought my Emax
not working - the symptoms it displayed were randomizing samples and spewing
out noise (cool if yr into Whitehouse/Merzbow) I took it to my local repair
shop and they said that it was a problew with the power supply not getting
enough power to the memory  - it cost �30 fix! So quite a positive story
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.

Thanks a lot

Luke







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