Emax

Strange... the installation of driver and software of Omniflop on my 
PC gave no problems at all.
I hope the programmer will help you, because it would be a shame not 
to use the EMAX !

///E-Synthesist



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "phili4blunts" <philiblunt@...> wrote:
>
> 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@yahoogroups.com, "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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    
> > > 
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
>