Emax

> Can I kick off with a few questions? Firstly, I've started using it to
> play live and I've been looking for a decent carrying bag for it but since
> the Emax isn't really standard size I'm having some trouble! Can anyone
> recommend somewhere? It would need to be somewhere that would mail order
> to the UK.

I can't help you with that. I can suggest you invest onto a flight case 
though. The internal hard drives don't like to be jostled so a nice 
padded flight case (like Anvil) would be your safest (and most 
expensive, I know) route to go. Those are usually made to match 
specific dimentions.

> Secondly, I've just discovered that I can transfer .WAVs into it via MIDI
> at 44 KHz using Sound Forge. Again, something I've been living in blissful
> ignorance of for some time! Anyway, I just wanted to check that they get
> played back at 44KHz too (I know the max sample rate is 39 but I'm sure I
> read somewhere that this is only a limitation on the way in via the on
> board sampling). I don't plan to go overboard with this as it takes a bit
> longer than I'm used to - but it seems like a good idea for things like
> high hats and so on, unless anyone can give a good reason why not!

Actually, if I remember correctly, they don't get played back as 
44.1kHz rather the extra bits get stripped off and they are actually 
played back as 39kHz. The reason for the 44.1kHz feature was to 
make the Emax II compatible with the samples E-mu created for the 
EIII. It was easier to have the Emax II accept the E3 generated 
44.1kHz samples, than to resample/or convert them to 39kHz first. 

The Emax II library is mainly compromised of the EIII library tweaked 
within the limits of the Emax II. You'll notice a lot of 44.1 samples if 
you get a Emax II factory CD-Rom. Especially on the CD-Roms that 
are filled with presets named exactly as they are on the EIII CD-Roms.






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