Re: Is anyone in the group using their Emax II with a Mac?
2008-11-28 by bty54193247
Many thanks indeed E-Synthesist. Having read your advice.....would you say that Alchemy would be the best option for me? It looks like the simplest solution.
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Re: [emax] Re: 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-28 by Michael Wisbech
ok thanks
It's amazing what you can find on Ebay.....What a bargain!!
2008-11-28 by bty54193247
Hi all, I ve been looking for one of these for ages!! item no: 140283655205.......and talk about cheap!! Altech MIDIface LX has 1x MIDI in port and 3x MIDI
Re: Is anyone in the group using their Emax II with a Mac?
2008-11-28 by esynthesist
Hi I m not sure about any of these machines, but note that Sound Designer II requires a DSP card (like AudioMedia II) installed in the Mac. SDII works fine
Re: [emax] Re: 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-28 by Ted Summers
Actually an EPROM can be burned many times but must be erased between times in a UV Eraser if you wish to re-program the IC with a new program. There are OTP
Re: Hello all, I'm trying to track down some parts for my Emax II
2008-11-28 by bty54193247
Hello Ted, I would be more than happy to look through my banks, and post them up to fill in the gaps!! Thats what groups like this are all about, isn t it.
Re: Is anyone in the group using their Emax II with a Mac?
2008-11-28 by bty54193247
Hello G, I ve just purchased another machine that was used with an Emulator II.....it has all of the sound banks, and software already installed. It s a Mac
Re: Hello all, I'm trying to track down some parts for my Emax II
2008-11-28 by bty54193247
Thank you so much for the help and advice.....I will email the seller to see if they have anymore. All the best Dave ... hash=item1803096 ...
Re: [emax] Re: 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-28 by Michael Wisbech
On my Emax1 se, i can boot with the original os also. so i don t think it s in the eprom - and a eprom has to burned from new, as far i know. ( burn once read
Re: [emax] Re: 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-28 by Ted Summers
On the original Emax, calibrations are held in a 9306 EPROM )not the 2732/ or 2764. I cannot confirm of course where the SE bit is set. That is not discussed
Re: [emax] Re: 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-28 by tu@...
It looks like some bits are set in the Emax II EEPROM by these install disks. When the Emax II boots it appears to check the EEPROM and only allows the use of
Re: Hello all, I'm trying to track down some parts for my Emax II
2008-11-28 by Niklas Noren
About where to find LCD-display. Have you take a lock on ebay? Other vice follow this link:
Re[2]: [emax] OT: Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-28 by tu@...
There are actually two interfaces being built. One is a custom built one piece USB-RS422 converter and the other is a two piece solution using an off the shelf
Re: [emax] Hello all, I'm trying to track down some parts for my Emax II
2008-11-28 by Ted Summers
Dave, If those are the original banks that are also used from Emax 1 also, there are several banks missing from the known good sets out on the web. Anyone
Re: [emax] Is anyone in the group using their Emax II with a Mac?
2008-11-28 by GG
Hey, welcome to the group. I just joined myself. I picked up a Emax II and Emulator II recently as well and was thinking of getting a Mac as well. I am going
Is anyone in the group using their Emax II with a Mac?
2008-11-28 by bty54193247
Hello all, I ve just bought a couple of very, very cheap Mac s on Ebay. The first is an SE, which I know works with an Emulator II, but I was wondering if it
Hello all, I'm trying to track down some parts for my Emax II
2008-11-28 by bty54193247
Hello all, I ve just joined the group, and it s great to see that there are still a large number of people still using the Emax!! I ve just purchased an Emax
Re: SDS dump
2008-11-27 by jammie.emma
... i use it with my emax/korg dss1/korg dsm1/ensoniqs eps asr10/roland s series s330/w30/s750/s770/s760/emu eos and akai and kurzweil samplers it uses sds as
SDS dump
2008-11-27 by aseven634
sorry i ve asked this before but am still having some trouble, recently upgraded to windows XP from 98 where tried soundforge in 98 but that didn t work though
OT: Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-27 by edbleepin
... Yep. But does the X1 and X16 modes need to be both clocked? If not there needs to be some software (PC side) to tell the board to change to and from
Re: [emax] Re: 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-26 by Ted Summers
Perhaps also- buyer should use the COPY not the original to do the upgrade, then there would always be an unused original as source....just a thought. Regards,
Re: [emax] OT: Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-26 by Ted Summers
Well, for the person who is going to build the interface board- what about using the clock out from the emax as input into the clock circuit of the UART on the
Re: 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-26 by esynthesist
That would be quite easy. The buyer needs a (WinXP/Vista) PC with internal floppy drive, because the disk copy can not be done on the Emax itself. The buyer
OT: Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-26 by esynthesist
... off the shelf USB connector, don t you???
Re: [emax] 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-26 by Ted Summers
If someone on the group buys this and was going to duplicate the disk, it might be wise to post the instructions how to do the duplicating prior to them
Re: [emax] 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-26 by Michael Wisbech
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EMU-EMAX-II-2-MEG-MEMORY-UPGRADE-KIT-WITH-DAUGHTERBOARD_W0QQitemZ120338337248QQcmdZViewItemQQptZKeyboards_MIDI?hash=item120338337248&_trk
Re: [emax] 2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-26 by tu@...
It would be good if someone on the list could buy this so the memory install disk could be archived :) ... It has a few days left so hurry. Do the search.
Re: [emax] Re: Is it possible to convert Emax sound discs to other sampler formats?
2008-11-26 by tu@...
I can confirm that the K2500 does not support reading any Emu disk formats. However, it will read various Akai, Roland and Ensoniq formats. /Tristan ... If you
Re: [emax] Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-26 by tu@...
It seems there are only five different Emu RS422 equipped samplers to be supported: Emax I, Emax II, EII, EIII and EIIIx. So it should be quite simple to have
Re[2]: [emax] Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-26 by tu@...
I agree, your USB to RS422 adapter is probably the best option here. It has the specific advantages that the PC software can command the baud rate and parity
Re: [emax] Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-26 by tu@...
Thanks. Soo it seems the dumps can work with or without handshaking. That is good to know. I think the Mac is not actually switching between internal and
Re: [emax] Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-26 by Julian
... yes! that s what I m planning on!!!! USB speed should stay whatever it needs to be, and the baud rate changes set in HT or in any application effect the
2MB memory board upgrade on eBay
2008-11-26 by Rei
It has a few days left so hurry. Do the search.
Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-26 by edbleepin
... then ... Are you using USBtoSerial.c from MyUSB library? This uses the standard windows usbser.sys driver. The baudrate setting is sent from the host PC to
Re: [emax] Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-25 by mr julian
first up, I know NOTHING about the windows driver side of this... I just installed a driver that was supplied with the firmware, and I can see that in windows
Re: Is it possible to convert Emax sound discs to other sampler formats?
2008-11-25 by esynthesist
Yes it does... ...as long as you can use S1000 floppy disks in the targetsampler. If the targetsampler needs S1000 cdroms or S1000 removable harddisks, you
Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-25 by esynthesist
OK :-) What are the parameters that *can* be changed with the standard driver ? Nothing ??? Isn t it possible to define parity, or clocking by software? If
Re: [emax] Re: Is it possible to convert Emax sound discs to other sampler formats?
2008-11-25 by Brooks Mosher
doesn t EMXP convert to S1000 images? i think that might be the best bet since most samplers (including the K2000, K2500) will load S1000 samples. ...
Re: Is it possible to convert Emax sound discs to other sampler formats?
2008-11-25 by esynthesist
If you can t fix the Emax, and want to translate your emax banks to one of your three other sampler units, I guess Chickensys Translator will be the only
Re: Is it possible to convert Emax sound discs to other sampler formats?
2008-11-25 by jammie.emma
... analog multiplexing out puts to the filters and vca when you modulate the wheel the information is sampled and sent to the multiplexer which turns the
Is it possible to convert Emax sound discs to other sampler formats?
2008-11-25 by reshad
I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large amount of sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is wrong with it. Whenever
Re: Disk Drive problem?
2008-11-25 by Chip
you have to make it ID 0. have a look in the back, or in the back of the logic board and find DS0 DS1 solder points (should be in DS1), and with a solder
Re: Disk Drive problem?
2008-11-25 by pauldays1
What about the drive having to start like in sector 0 or something? Cause a block from me is a computer surplus for PCs/ Paul
Re: Disk Drive problem?
2008-11-25 by Chip
any ordinary pc floppy drive works. don t waste your money! chip
Disk Drive problem?
2008-11-25 by pauldays1
Hello Gang, I have an EMAX II and I was formatting a disk, after it was formatted, I decided to play a song before I sampled a sound. When I inserted an
Re: Sound Designer for Emax files supported by EMXP now
2008-11-24 by jammie.emma
... unless they are blank unformated it would be nice to have emxp to copy disks and re write them in xp it would then do away with the crappy dos copyqm and
Re: [emax] Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-24 by Julian
what you want is probably doable. It s definately do-able with the AVR, but my issue is the PC driver side, and modifying or creating a driver to send all the
Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-24 by esynthesist
I hope you can create a device which is not restricted to the Emax ! If we could use the same device with the EII that would be awesome. From a software
Re: [emax] Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-24 by mr julian
... yeah..... that would make things really simple. ... I m pretty sure the mac would have to have it s own clock for asynchronous communication. in
Re: RS422 fun
2008-11-24 by esynthesist
Sounds great that standard USB serial comms is being used. I don t know about the clocking part of your hardware experiment, but from a signal perspective I