Emax

> I just got an emaxHD, and am confused as to how to put sounds in it. Do
> I have to use the floppy discs? What is the connector in back for? Can
> it adapt to SCSI, or?? I have a lot of Emu sounds on syqest and cd's
> (some for esi, and some for EOS). Is there any way to use these sounds
> in the emax? Anyone want to trade any sounds?? Thanks, 

If your Emax HD came without banks on the hard drive you will have to load banks from 
floppy and save them to the HD. The RS-422 adapter on the back was an attempt at 
giving the user a faster way to connect to a computer for sample editing than MIDI, but 
was ignored by most companies in favour of SCSI sample dump. Nowadays you would 
have to build your own cable to connect it to a Mac and then locate an olde version of 
Passports Alchemy with the Emax module. As far as the sounds you have, you can send 
the individual samples to your Emax via the very slow MIDI SDS, but the bank 
information of EOS and ESI banks is not backwards compatible with the Emax.

John Silveria II
AIM: EmaxJS
The Silveria Family Website
Emax and Emax II User's Group
http://www.silveriafamily.com