Emax

As far as I know there isn't. I looked everywhere, and also read the 
message archive of this site: the only thing that seem to exist is 
the EMX program, but that program doesn't care about the *contents* 
of an EMAX disk image, it just loads and unloads the images on PC. 

I'm also pretty sure that writing EMAX disk images directly to a ZIP 
disk from PC is impossible. EMX is limited to floppy disks, and no 
other software for reading / writing EMAX images exists (except 
perhaps Translator from Chicken systems).

Chicken systems Translator 2.9 seems to support Emax finally (they 
were working on that for a long time :-) but it doesn't work properly 
on my computer... You can use it however to browse all .em1 files on 
your harddisk and see what presets (their names).

Because I had the same problem a while ago, I started working on a 
(simple) program that can read the EMX floppy disk images and that 
can produce & store HTML files reporting everything which is on the 
disk (i.e. all presets, all parameters such as filter & envelope 
settings, spectrum synthesis parameters, sequences, WAV-converted 
samples, and so on). It will be a kind of a PC-librarian program for 
EMAX sound banks, but a very simple one with almost no features - 
even no GUI, only HTML :-)

Of course I needed the EMAX disk specification for that. This 
specification however has never been published by E-mu Systems (again 
as far as I know :-).

So I spent some evenings during the last couple of months to find out 
the EMAX disk image layout by reverse engineering the whole thing. 
That was fun ! Anyway, I just finished this. 

So now I will start programming that little librarian program.

Maybe that kind of program would help ? 

Regards, 

///E-synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "s*" <scart@s...> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a huge library of sounds for my Emax II.  I essentially have 
3 shoe boxes full of samples on Floppy Disk.  It's a real pain when I 
really want to load a specific sound and have to go through each box 
searching for it.  I have a SCSI Hard drive and Zip disk but, loading 
each disk into the sampler and then switching drives and resaving it 
to the zip or HD takes forever!  Is there a program that will let me 
manage load the sounds into my computer and then manage them there 
and put them on a SCSI Hard Drive or Zip?  I tried Chicken systems 
translator but, I couldn't seem to get it to work.  Any help is 
greatly appreciated.
> 
> BTW, I have both a PC and Mac so I can use software on either 
platform.  
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -s*
> 
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