Emax

sounddesigner2 can do all the envelopes and modulation and then dump the whole file along with the samples via rs com port much faster than the midi not as fast as smdi but 15x faster than midi dump

and you can send whole banks with all presets

you can take an EII banks file and transmit it to the emax with no changing of anything it just sends it then you can recieve the bank and save it as a emax sd2 banlk which can be read by the emax2 also you can recieve the samples from an E3 and transmit them to an EII or emax1/2 with all the filter settings and envelopes and presets as long as they fitted in the size of memory

thats why sd2 is so much better than alchemy

but if you want just dumping programs of samples then there samplitude wavelab alchemy recycle

i use sample wrench on a pc which is great and i use it with s950 old rolands and dss1 and dsm1 korg t1/2ex/3ex is sample dump engine is good 

and the emax1 only has 512k so it will only 40 secs to send full samples

but if i want to be quick i use awave use waves set them up in the instrument editor doing all loops and layers and then save as sf2

then i use emxp to convert sf2 to emax image which i then write to either a floppy disk or a zip 100 image or 32mb cf card depending on what i want to use at the time

i can get the full library of transients from a roland d50 on at 16bits 22.5 khz on 1 floppy as the rom they are 1 shat samples for the whole keyboard at c4/c5 depending what the rom is

and if you use mysingle cycle sounds you can get hundreds of them on 1 disk and layering them and paning modulation and chorus you can make fat sounds 

you can also do stereo samples on the emax you put the left in 1 layer and right in the other layer and hard pan them left and right but you only get 4 notes poly like this

now i think if people are having problems getting the zip disk with the image on then i will provide the service for the cost of a zip 100 disk and postage to where ever in uk and europe 

and we need some todo the same in usa


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Johnny Tomasello 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Just got my mac classic II


    
  So it's having OS 9 in your chain that's allowing you to make this file transfer work?

  I'm using a Mac Pro, running Leopard, with USB Zip and a Color Classic with OS 7.5 with a SCSI Zip (which is the first Mac I ever bought - in 1993 I think, and I've kept it all these years...).

  Most often, I'm running an SP12 librarian on the Color Classic, but I also have used Alchemy via Emax Sample dump. Which is sloooow. And not ideal.

  I'm thinking of resurrecting an old OS 9 laptop to replace the Color Classic, and I suppose I could keep my pipeline of MIDI sample dump and SP12 librarian, but still be able to swap disks between OS 9 and OS X. Does that sound correct to you?

  I'm not using Sound Designer right now, but Alchemy has been great, minus the speed. Which would improve with the addition of a more contemporary OS 9 machine. Processing only of course, not MIDI sample dump. Why are you guys using Sound Designer over Alchemy?

  Sent from my iPhone

  On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Francis Cote <francis.cote@...> wrote:

  > What are your other machines?
  > 
  > I got a Quadra 700 lately with OS 7.1. I used a Zip disk to do it. BUT, it
  > took 3 machines... Please don't laugh, but on the moment, it was what I
  > found to work. So here is the chain...
  > 
  > Downloaded everything on my MBP running Snow Leopard. (My original plan was
  > to use SheepShave, but for some reason it won't start anymore.)
  > 
  > Formated the zip disk on the Quadra. When I was doing it on the Powerbook
  > Wallstreet with OS 9, the Quadra couldn't read it. My wallstree has an
  > internal VST Zip drive, and I have a PCMCIA CompactFlash in it.
  > 
  > So I transfered the files from the MBP on a CompactFlash.
  > Then copied the files from the CF to the Zip disk with the PB G3.
  > Then I read the files on the Quadra from the Zip disk.
  > 
  > Complicated a bit, yes. But I'm getting an Ethernet adapter for the Quadra,
  > then I'll probably setup an FTP server, since we can't rely on either SMB
  > or Appel Share protocols.
  > 
  > Point is... If you have a functional Sheep Shaver, I think it should work.
  > I stopped f'ing around with it after 30 min, and my kitchen table looked
  > really cool with 3 generations of Macs running at the same time, and I had
  > I sort of fun after all! I had taken a day off. It was also the day of my
  > divorce when my wife arrived home... lol
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Johnny Tomasello <johnny@...>wrote:
  > 
  >> **
  >> 
  >> 
  >> I'd actually like to know the answer to this as well. Ever since Mac OS
  >> Snow Leopard they've disabled copying to (but not from) disks formatted on
  >> older systems. I've tried SCSI as well as floppy, without luck. The only
  >> thing I could get to work was formatting the disk as an old PC format, but
  >> then the older Mac truncates the files to 8 letter names with 3 letter
  >> extensions.
  >> 
  >> It did used to be as easy as formatting the disk and putting it in the new
  >> Mac to transfer files. I haven't tried Ethernet, but there's no reason to
  >> think that would work either.
  >> 
  >> Sent from my iPhone
  >> 
  >> 
  >> On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:39 AM, "jdchevallier" <joel.chevallier@...>
  >> wrote:
  >> 
  >>> 30 dollars on craigslist...not too shabby!
  >>> 
  >>> I realize this has likely been covered on the forums, but I've done some
  >> searching to no avail, so...
  >>> 
  >>> How do get the Sound Designer files or Alchemy onto disks? I've tried
  >> formatting a floppy in the Mac Classic and then throwing it into my USB
  >> drive on my new mac...gues that would be too easy.
  >>> 
  >>> If anyone can give me some direction, or even point me to where this
  >> question has been answered on the forums previously I'd truly appreciate it.
  >>> 
  >>> Thanks guys!
  >>> 
  >>> joel
  >>> 
  >>> 
  >> 
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  >> 
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