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Re: Nice-to-know: create Emax CD from Zip image

2006-12-29 by soundcrafter

Will the next version be able to convert Akai S1000 -> Wav?  

For those of you who may have been sleeping on EMXP, get it... it's 
fantastic!


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> Maybe this could be useful for some of you...
> And maybe some of you already discovered this...
> 
> If you create backups of your Emax zipdisks (100M or 250M), e.g. 
with 
> EMXP, and you change the extension of the backupfile to .ISO, you 
can 
> burn this image directly to a CD and use it in your Emax.
> Indeed: if you put this CD into the SCSI CD-drive connected to 
your 
> Emax, the Emax will recognize the disk. So the CD is immediately 
ready-
> for-use !
> (I tested it only with an EMAX-II).
> 
> This could be a nice way to backup your (unreliable) zipdisks :-)
> 
> 
> Of course only 100MB or 250MB of the CD capacity is being used... 
so I 
> think I will add a feature to EMXP that will allow to create 512 
> MB .ISO CD images (besides reading CD-roms of course).
> I don't know when this will be available. The next release of the 
EMXP-
> freeware is in January, this one will support conversion from 
EmaxI/II 
> to Akai S1000 files and reading/writing/formatting Akai S1000 
floppy 
> disks. Also the annoying samplerate conversion issues when 
converting 
> WAV to Emax will be removed - EMXP will do the job for you 
> automatically.
> 
> By the way: I'm also adding Emulator-III support. I think some of 
the 
> Emulator-III features will already be available in february 
(probably 
> reading/writing Emu-III zipdisks, reading Emu-III cdroms and 
converting 
> Emu-III samples to WAV-files).
> 
> Have fun in vintage emuland !
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
>

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