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Wow, I am definitely interested in your program.  Kudos on your determined efforts.  If you need any beta testers, just let me know.  

thanks,

-s*
scart@...
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: esynthesist 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:44 PM
  Subject: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation


  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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