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I've been praying for such a program since I got my Emax.  I don;t think Translator supports Emax I files and it may never do so.

Sign me up for beta test duties as well, I love the emax and being able to use the computer with it would be such a blessing.

Thanks for doing this man.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: s* 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation


  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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