Emax

i just tryed the omniflop program with no success. the "EMu Emax
800kB" was missing from the list of supported formats when i installed
the driver. i thought it shuold have been listed after i installed so
that i could format the disk and then use emx to write the os and a
soundbank to disk. i emailed the programer so hopefully i get a
response soon. its almost been a year since i got my emax and i havent
been able to use it. so im hoping you get a working version of the
emxp proram esynthesist.

peace


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> The bad formatting by EMX and EMXP for EMAX-I disks is probably 
> caused by calibration & tolerance differences between the drives used 
> in EMAX-I and the drives used in most EMAX-II and PC's.
> 
> This seemed like an unsolvable problem, but I have had contact with 
> J. Watton of sherlock consulting software. He makes free software 
> (OmniFlop) to read/write almost any kind of floppy disk. He 
> investigated the EMAX-I disk image I sent him and has tried to make 
> his OmniFlop software EMAX-I compatible. This version is released a 
> week ago (version 2.01i). I didn't have time to do intensive testing, 
> but the first disk I formatted with OmniFlop worked fine on my EMAX-
> SE sampler while the disks formatted by EMX and EMXP almost always 
> failed (3-ticks).
> 
> Note however that although OmniFlop can also read/write these disks 
> (besides formatting them), it needs the full 800K image to do that. 
> Most files on the internet are either the 540K EMX sound images or 
> the 260K operating system images, but not the merged 800K images.
> 
> I'll make EMXP compatible with the OmniFlop driver in the summer, but 
> in the meantime you'll have to:
> - format the floppy disk on Windows XP with OmniFlop
> - write the OS and sound banks on DOS with the original EMX software 
> (on the disks formatted by OmniFlop).
> Of course you only have to do this once - after you made the first 
> disk this way you can format the other disks on your EMAX sampler 
> itself and use either EMX or EMXP to write OS and sound data to them.
> 
> You can download OmniFlop here:
> http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm
> 
> To be able to use the rather new EMAX support of this software, 
> you'll need a free license. But you get it almost immediately and it 
> works fine...
> 
> Again, I only did some small (but successful) tests with it, but of 
> course there's no guarantee that the OmniFlop-formatted disks work on 
> all EMAX samplers...
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
> 
> --- In emax@...m, "elmacaco" <elmacaco@> wrote:
> >
> > I get the 3 ticks and stop when I have a bad disk, I suspect that's 
> the problem, when I make OS disks in EMX that happens, but when I 
> make copies of the OS disks I have it works fine.  Try and get an OS 
> disk from another local emax user and see if that loads.
> > 
> > 
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: oh3nlp 
> >   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
> >   Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 3:06 PM
> >   Subject: [emax] Re: ALMOST perfect Emax. It's broken, you know.
> > 
> > 
> >   --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "brainztain" <digitailslide@> wrote:
> >   >
> >   > Hey, I know this thread is old, but I just wanted to ask you if 
> I 
> >   > should try this on my emax hd. I've tried various floppy disk 
> >   drives 
> >   > on it but they all hang on the "loading software" screen while 
> the 
> >   > floppy drive led stays on forever... and yes, it does three 
> little 
> >   > ticks and then stops, but the light stays on.
> >   > 
> >   > Let me know if you have any recommendations.
> >   > 
> >   > Thanks
> >   > 
> >   > 
> >   > 
> >   >>
> > 
> >   Hello
> > 
> >   Have you solved the problem?
> >   I have same thing. I've made several 3.2-bootdisks and changed 
> the 
> >   disk drive also. All the same. EMAX starts to load and then stops 
> >   (after these 3 "ticks"). I made short searching with google to 
> found 
> >   this controller chip mentioned before, but i didn't found 
> anything 
> >   data about it. 
> >   So, i have no idea, is the problem disk or drive controller.
> > 
> >   It's strange that how it could made even these 3 ticks, if 
> >   controller is broke down. 
> >   In other hand, i have made these bootdisks with working 720k-
> floppy 
> >   drive, which i also use to make some disks to my ensoniq eps-16+. 
> >   I've tried 2 different drives in my EMAX. same function with 
> both: 3 
> >   ticks, then stop.
> > 
> >   Any ideas? Anyone?
> > 
> >   Best Regards,
> >   Jukka
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    
> > 
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> >
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