Emax

Bad disk or CRC error messages could be a couple of things:

head alignment issues

disks are losing the magnetic field and so the data is corrupt.

I built a Windows 7 PC with a Socket 478 (that's about the last mobo's I found that had Floppy drive connector).

EMXP works fine with that.

Intel D865PERL is the mobo, fyi.

-T

On Oct 25, 2014, at 8:39 PM, Josh Allard joshua.allard@... [emax] wrote:

Hello,

I recently picked up an Emax SE HD.

This is the first hardware sampler I have ever used.

It came with 78 disks, although most do not seem to be from the emax library so I'm thinking of picking up an old windows 95 laptop with a 3.5 in drive so I can try out some of the sound library. I do know that I need to use dual density disks.

I do have a windows 8 laptop and Mac OS X laptop but as far as I can tell, using a usb floppy drive with those will get me nowhere.

About 10 of the disks give either 'bad disk' or 'crc error' messages. Fairly normal to run into?

Some discs don't eject all the way so now I keep a pair of tweezers handy. Not sure if that is a sign of a failing drive?@

I would love to try out some synclavir and cs-80 samples in the emax. I suppose the best way to get those into the emax is to just play them out through my DAW?

As I am new to hardware samplers please bare with me:

It seems a popular method of sampling is to use vinyl and pitch up and speed up as much as possible then use the emax to pitch back down to get to the 'magic'?

I'd also like to sample my modular - to turn OSCs into poly. If I want to sample an OSC is it best to just hold down a note then trim the stop point to as short as possible to try to get down to a cycle? I know I just need to start sampling and see what I discover but any pointers up front would be appreciated!

Thanks!