Emax

Hi,

A few weeks ago I promised to release an alpha version of my 
EMAX "librarian" software during the last week of October.
Well today is the day :-) You can find the program in the files 
section, named "Emaxlib_v0_01_1_alpha.zip".

Please read the README.TXT file or the EMAXLHLP.HTML file after 
unzipping the package: these files explain how to install the 
software.
Don't run the executable EMAXREAD.EXE. Read the installation 
instructions first and then use your browser to use the software.

A few words on this version:
- It's an alpha release, meaning it has to be tested thoroughly yet, 
and some features still have to be added.
- The software MUST be run in a 32-bit Windows environment.
- The software does't read the disk(drive)s themselves, only the disk 
images. So create the images first with EMX !
- It has only been tested with:

* own banks created on EMAX II samplers only;
* ZD banks downloaded from the internet, which are EMAX-I banks.

  Test results:

* It worked 100% correct with my own banks (both 16-bit EMAX II and 
compressed EMAX II);
* It was also pretty succesful with the ZD-banks (80% OK), but it 
crashed on 26 of them. However, my EMAXII hardware sampler also 
crashed on them :-) so I don't know if it's a software problem or an 
image problem.

My experience shows that some EMAX-banks can be rather "dirty". E.g. 
my program sometimes reports empty samples, but that's because there 
really are empty samples in the bank...

For more information: see the included helpfile.


I would really appreciate feedback on this version, especially from 
EMAX(1) users. You can email me on my yahoo account.

Don't get angry if the software crashes on your first bank :-). Just 
let me know the problem and e-mail me the image on which it crashed. 
So that I can solve the problem and release a more stable version.

If the feedback indicates major problems with EMAX-1 banks, I will 
try to buy an EMAX-1 sampler and do some further investigation myself.


Thanks & have fun.

///E-Synthesist
Kris, Belgium.