Emax

Hello. I have recently hooked up a 9GB external scsi drive to the ESI4000. The drive works great with most presets. I was able to load and save the whole emax II sound library, and most of the Alan Wilder sounds. I am running into trouble when I try to load back my own presets, that contain my own samples, sampled from cd's or my own voice. The presets are also sometimes very small, less than 2MB. I was able to convert the preset for the Depeche Mode song Condemnation, and play it with the ESI4000. I was also able to save it to the hard drive. I am not able however to load the bank back from the hard drive though. I am, however able to load all of the other Depeche Mode samples from the hard drive and play them. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced trouble loading certain samples from a hard drive, not a zip drive. Please let me know if anyone knows what might be going on. Thank you very much for your help,

Tony 

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Tristan Upton"  wrote:
>
> Hi Alan, 
> 
> Your friend is right, the Zip drive is old and outdated. However, I would 
> not go for a hard disk unless you really need the fastest load times. The 
> better option these days is an external SCSI flash card reader. With 2GB 
> compact flash cards available at low prices it is a much more reliable and 
> expandable solution than a hard disk. 
> 
> Have a look at http://www.scsiforsamplers.com for some models that work with 
> the Esi. They also have SCSI hard disks, SCSI CDROM drives and cables if you 
> need them. Sometimes you might find these card readers cropping up on Ebay 
> at low prices too, so keep your eyes open. You can also get a compact flash 
> IDE card reader and a SCSI to IDE brigde and build your own if you know what 
> you are doing are handy at DIY. 
> 
> The SCSI on the Emax HDSE may work with other hard disks but I think it 
> would be worth trying a SCSI flash card reader with it first. Some people 
> have reported successfully replaced their Emax floppy disk drive with a card 
> reader attached to the internal SCSI bus. 
> 
> Transfer of samples between the Emax and Esi is not possible via SCSI. The 
> Esi may be able to upload the samples from the Emax via MIDI SDS but it will 
> be slow and you will need to set up all the programs etc again. If you have 
> access to an Emax II you could load the Emax floppies in the that and save 
> them to an Emax II formatted SCSI drive that the Esi could then import from 
> directly. That is the simplest and easiest way to do it. 
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Tristan 
> 
> Alan writes: 
> 
> > I need some advice.  I am buying a esi-4000 rack from a friend with 
> > Turbo.  He suggests I get an external HD that is compatable and cable 
> > to connect to the exi-4000.  He is not impressed with the zip drive.  
> > What HD can I get ,what size memory, and what external cable end 
> > connectors do I need?  He has the complete 12 sample disc cataloge from 
> > emu that he will download into the external HD once I get it.  Will 
> > this HD and cable also work on the SCSI of my emax HDSE?  Another 
> > question, can I transfer samples from my emax to the esi via SCSI cable 
> > directly, or do I have to go to the HD first?  Or what is your take on 
> > all this?  Thanks for all your advice and help.  -Alan   
> >
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