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Re: [emax] Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-05 by tu@...

According to the sysex spec, the Emax II can receive Emax I compressed bank transfers. It needs to for compatibility with the RS422 CDROM drive! But it does

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Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-04 by esynthesist

Alchemy doesn t support bank transfers with any sampler. It only supports sample transfers, including an interesting bulk mode to transfer all samples at

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RE: [emax] EMAX HD Hard Drive

2009-12-04 by el macaco

I have a dead Emax HD hard drive as well, if anyone want to try life support. To: emax@yahoogroups.com From: jrb1864@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:47:52

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Re: [emax] Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-04 by Elk Latham

You can tell Alchemy to retrieve all samples in a given Emax II bank. During this process it will create a sound file in ram for each sample. All editing

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Emax 2 Hard Drive Mounting Plate

2009-12-04 by John

Where if possible can I get a mounting plate for the hard drive installed in my keyboard EMAX 2? I need to get it secured properly. Right now I have attached

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Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-04 by John

I m going to spring for the $20 usb floppy drive and download the Alchemy and Sound Designer .sit files from the files section. Hopefully I and unpack them on

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EMAX HD Hard Drive

2009-12-04 by John

If anyone needs a dead Emax HD Hard Drive I ve got one. Before I toss it. I MISS MY EMAX SE/HD Keyboard!

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Re: [emax] Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-04 by Ted Summers

For PC disk support, you have to be running a certain Mac OS version and/or have DAVE installed- might require 7.5.5 or later, not sure, as I have 8.x on my

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Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-04 by John

Does Alchemy support bank transfers to and from Emax 2? How in depth are the sample edit features? Thanks!

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Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-04 by John

Thank you for the information. I ll put my Sound Designer up for sale by itself if I can get Alchemy on my mac from the files section via floppy transfer

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Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-04 by John

My G5 doesn t have a floppy, but my PC does. Could I download the files via the pc to floppy? WOuld my old Mac read such? If not I ll head to the Comp USA

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Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by esynthesist

As far as I know SoundDesigner for Emax 1.12 is also supporting the Emax-II, except for full bank up/downloading (which only works with Emax-I). This SD

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Re: [emax] Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by sanctifiedone@...

Hi! Yes, exactly - you said it better than I could. My message was one of thanks, because many of us are new here and searching for solutions. No sarcasm

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Re: [emax] Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by Ted Summers

I dunno if that last is meant to be sarcastic or not. However, I can tell you- having a lot of interaction on this group over the years that I have been

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Re: [emax] Re: Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by Ted Summers

I had a G4 MDD with no floppy. To move it over to disk, I got a USB floppy (which does work in OS X- at least up to 10.5) $5 at my local computer recycler. I

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Re: [emax] Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by Rish

Hey If anyone needs the Alchemy ver 3.0 full manual I have 5 of them available. Richard at www.Route66studios.com ... From: sanctifiedone@comcast.net To:

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-03 by thenewyorkcowboy

Several ?? Hey guys we found the hoarder! LOL. Yes, I picked up my 2mb for I think $152 if I remember, but wow, getting an 8mb rack for $50? The irony of

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Re: [emax] Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by sanctifiedone@...

I love posts like this one from Ted. And while I m at it, I also want to express my appreciation for group members like Dave willing to help me untangle my

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Re: [emax] Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by Ted Summers

Alchemy software v3.0 sit is in the groups files section, and it works...... Regards, Ted ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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Emax Users Orlando, FL?

2009-12-03 by John

Anyone in the central Florida/Orlando area in the group that may be willing and able to help me with setting up my EMAX 2 and Mac SE with Sound Designer or

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Re: s

2009-12-03 by John

I have Sound Designer Universal, both original floppies in Original box, doesn t work with My Emax 2, dunno if it does with Emax SE. But may be selling if I

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Emax II with MAC Se

2009-12-03 by John

I have an Emax 2 with 2mb ram, jazz drives, floppies, cables and connector cable to the MAC. I had a dream...a dream of running my Emax 2 with sound designer

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Re: [emax] Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-02 by Ted Summers

... have acquired an expansion board but not the floppy that went along with it, or their unit is not recognizing the memory they already have. That is

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-02 by tristanupton

Actually, in the last few years I have picked up several 8MB Emax II racks for around $50 each plus shipping. You just have to keep watching Ebay etc. Often

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-02 by thenewyorkcowboy

True, but how many 8mb units have you seen for sale in the past two years, for example? I have another keyboard from the same era, a 1986 Korg Poly-800 that

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-02 by thenewyorkcowboy

Ah, Ok I guess I ve been sniffing too much glue...my head is spinning. So to be clear, the EPROM programming conversation is only for people who have acquired

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Re: [emax] Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-01 by jammie

who said it was $200 ... From: dwv1957 To: emax@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 7:16 PM Subject: [emax] Re: Memory Upgrades That translates to

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-01 by dwv1957

That translates to approximately $200 US, then add another $100 (minimum) for the ram, so your looking at a minimum of $300 + associated shipping costs to

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Re: [emax] Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-01 by jammie

if some one is willing to donner there board then duplicating it is not a problem x ray scanning the board and using the scan in eagle is possible as we have

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Re: [emax] Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-01 by Ted Summers

This is another case where, if people find a dead emax 2 it would possibly still be worth something just to get the expansion board if the dead unit has one,

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-12-01 by dwv1957

You are exactly right Ted, the expansion board has 4 PALs on it plus some 74HCxxx chips on it, it is also a 4 layer board, so the amount of work it would take

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Re: [emax] Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-11-30 by Ted Summers

My understanding is that the RAM expansion board has PALs that go with it. Getting the PAL binaries for the SCSI update wasn t easy for Rob at Emulator

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-11-30 by thenewyorkcowboy

Ah, thanks Tristan, now I understand. I was a bit lost on what a 4 bit word size meant. As for acquiring a RAM expansion board, isn t that the holy grail of

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Re: [emax] Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-11-30 by tu@...

Each of the Samsung chips is 256k x 4 bits. So two of them give you 256kB and 8 x 256kB = 2MB. The 18 pin sockets are for the 4464 DRAM used in the 1MB version

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Re: Emax II RIP? (not!)

2009-11-30 by rpcfender

Hi Jamie, ... Point taken, but we are talking about old gear. ... I have had 2 caps a SMPS in my Morpheus leak all over the board and in 4 in one of my TX816s

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-11-29 by thenewyorkcowboy

So I opened up the cover again and did some thorough examination. I have 16 chips of Samsung KM44C256CP-7 up through IC socket 63. At 256k per chip I don t

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-11-29 by thenewyorkcowboy

Ah! I finally figured it out. I did more research and my model, the 2212 is only a 2mb which I verified by Master 4,Y,2, and got 1048488. Here I had been

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Re: [emax] Re: Emax II RIP? (not!)

2009-11-29 by jammie

electrolitics dont leak any more that was the old types from the 60,70,s the new types dont use oil the caps fail due to heat which causes oxidiation build up

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Re: Emax II RIP? (not!)

2009-11-29 by rpcfender

Electrolytic caps have a number of failure modes. They can leak the dielectric and that either appears on the PCB or the top of the cap (which is what yours

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Re: Emax II RIP? (not!)

2009-11-28 by drifter7508

Added some pictures of my OLD PSU in the photo section as well since there are no images of the EMAX II PSU on the internet. =)

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Re: Memory Upgrades

2009-11-28 by Everett

My expanded EMAX actually only has a portion of the sockets filled on the main board. I believe the writeup on emulator archive goes through why in more

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Re: [emax] Re: Emax II RIP? (not!)

2009-11-28 by Daniel Baum

... Excellent. That means that the original diagnosis from chevytravelleruk was correct and that changing the power supply was justifed. If I could have

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