Emax

A few weeks ago I posted a pre-release beta version of the new EMXP 
software. 
It supports reading/writing EMAX-II zip disks from a WinXP PC 
directly instead of having to copy EMX images to a floppy first and 
then having to copy these to ZIP disks on your EMAX sampler.

Only EMAX-II disks are supported however. I guess some of you would 
also appreciate support for EMAX-I ZIP disks ?

Since I don't have a SCSI-enabled EMAX-I sampler, I need some help 
from those of you who are lucky to have such a setup.
Therefore I wrote a little program that collects some data from your 
EMAX-1 ZIP-disk(s). If some of you are willing to run this program 
and to send the outputfile to me (esynthesist@...), I might be 
able to add EMAX-I ZIP disk support to EMXP later.

The program can be found here:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/files/EMXP/
It's called EMAX1ZIPTEST.
You'll need a ZIP drive connected to your Windows XP PC of course...

By the way:
- the ZIP disk must contain some banks, otherwise it won't be very 
helpful to me. 
- the file generated by this program will not contain any actual 
sound data from your ZIP disk, so you don't have to be afraid that 
I'm trying to obtain your sound banks :-)
- the program does not write anything to your ZIP disk, so it can't 
destroy your ZIP disks.

If the size of the outputfile is more than 500 000 bytes, please let 
me know but don't send the file because something must have gone 
wrong. 

Any feedback on the current beta-version of EMXP is still welcome (I 
haven't had a lot I must say...)

Thanks in advance !

///E-Synthesist