Emax

its quite funny now reading about the "huge" potential of 8mb ram & 40mb
hard drive...  how times change.  the online adverts show just how lucky we
are in these days of the big samplers a la e4xt & z8's.


anyways, i see that the emax manual is in this forum's files page, but not
for the emax ii.  how similar are they & is it worth me reading the original
or will i be too confused...?  not that i'll be using this new baby for too
much sampling - probably just for live work as i have the 2 e4xt's i
mentioned in the last (first) email.


question : anyone using the fujitsu 230mb optical drive with the emax ii?
its one of the few drives i can seem to plug in *anywhere* & it works.  my
e4xt ultra has the upgraded 15gb internal ata drive but i've added an apple
cd-rom & the fujitsu 230mb optical into a glyph case i was given as it was
"broken".  only a few loose leads!  its always good to back up data onto
another drive & these fujitsu's are great - i've used 'em for years &
*never* had a disc failure...  not something that can be said for zips!!

right, off to ebay to pick up some more drives.

}:-)


email :
  moose@...

music sites :
  http://www.pigpendigital.com
  http://www.alaskahighway.com
  http://www.mishikawa.com

Hello, welcome to list.

Emax II manual see

http://www.emu.com/products/archives/archives.html


Dunno if MO will work, but I´d say chances are high.
I´m also using MO 230 (with Ultras), also never had any problem.
See ya´. Regs RR 






--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, moose <moose@p...> wrote:
> 
> its quite funny now reading about the "huge" potential of 8mb ram & 
40mb
> hard drive...  how times change.  the online adverts show just how 
lucky we
> are in these days of the big samplers a la e4xt & z8's.
> 
> 
> anyways, i see that the emax manual is in this forum's files page, 
but not
> for the emax ii.  how similar are they & is it worth me reading the 
original
> or will i be too confused...?  not that i'll be using this new baby 
for too
> much sampling - probably just for live work as i have the 2 e4xt's i
> mentioned in the last (first) email.
> 
> 
> question : anyone using the fujitsu 230mb optical drive with the 
emax ii?
> its one of the few drives i can seem to plug in *anywhere* & it 
works.  my
> e4xt ultra has the upgraded 15gb internal ata drive but i've added 
an apple
> cd-rom & the fujitsu 230mb optical into a glyph case i was given as 
it was
> "broken".  only a few loose leads!  its always good to back up data 
onto
> another drive & these fujitsu's are great - i've used 'em for years 
&
> *never* had a disc failure...  not something that can be said for 
zips!!

> 
> right, off to ebay to pick up some more drives.
> 
> }:-)
> 
> 
> email :
>   moose@p...
> 
> music sites :
>   http://www.pigpendigital.com
>   http://www.alaskahighway.com
>   http://www.mishikawa.com

From: "moose" <moose@...>

> its quite funny now reading about the "huge" potential of 8mb ram & 40mb
> hard drive...  how times change.  the online adverts show just how lucky
we
> are in these days of the big samplers a la e4xt & z8's.
>
I still think that's enough potential for plenty of stuff you might want to
do....
I believe that modern samplers chuch in more ram *because they can* and to
look better on paper. but when you're looking at 256 MB of RAM, you don't
need a sampler, you need a HD recorder, maybe with an auto timestretch
software...

Personally, I have an MPC with 32 meg of RAM that I play live, and it is
still only pushing about 20 MB for a 1 hour set. (I also use synths live
though..) It's more likely to run out of the actual number of samples it can
have in memory, than sample RAM. Though I do find the 1/2 meg of RAM in my
emax to be a bit limiting sometimes..
:-P

Anyway, hi again... I've seen you around a bit now.... and congratulations
on your new purchase! I've often considered the idea of an emaxII, but never
quite managed to get one yet.



julian

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On 22/7/03 7:21 PM, "mr julian" wrote:
> 
> I've often considered the idea of an emaxII, but never
> quite managed to get one yet.
> 
i actually swapped an skb 16u shock-mounted rack (i bought 7 at $100 each
back in the uk) for an emax ii hd rack a while ago but never got in to
programming it as i have the e4's, then when i decided i needed an
all-in-one machine for purely live use i remember reading that depeche mode
used 'em for a few tours & that they're really robust - the emaxs & not
depeche!  };-)

i can't complain at the price of this machine either - a total bargain even
if its the basic model.  1mb would be enough for a song seeing as though i
don't do too much live, as can be seen on http://alaskahighway.com/pictures.
i'm the old git at the back btw!


the mo drives are amazing drives & need no specialised drivers - literally
plug-n-play on anything from the early macs (classic iis) to s1000's,
esi-32's to *hopefully* the emax!  i'll certainly report the success (or
failure!) when the keyboard arrives.  i've already found a 500mb ex-apple
drive so just need to work out how to mount it safely internally, or i
suppose another external drive case wouldn't be the end of the world...


}:-)


email :
  moose@...

music sites :
  http://www.pigpendigital.com
  http://www.alaskahighway.com
  http://www.mishikawa.com



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Hi Julian, where are you from?
Regards.
Pedro.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mr julian 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:21 AM
  Subject: Re: [emax] funny reading...


  From: "moose" <moose@...>

  > its quite funny now reading about the "huge" potential of 8mb ram & 40mb
  > hard drive...  how times change.  the online adverts show just how lucky
  we
  > are in these days of the big samplers a la e4xt & z8's.
  >
  I still think that's enough potential for plenty of stuff you might want to
  do....
  I believe that modern samplers chuch in more ram *because they can* and to
  look better on paper. but when you're looking at 256 MB of RAM, you don't
  need a sampler, you need a HD recorder, maybe with an auto timestretch
  software...

  Personally, I have an MPC with 32 meg of RAM that I play live, and it is
  still only pushing about 20 MB for a 1 hour set. (I also use synths live
  though..) It's more likely to run out of the actual number of samples it can
  have in memory, than sample RAM. Though I do find the 1/2 meg of RAM in my
  emax to be a bit limiting sometimes..
  :-P

  Anyway, hi again... I've seen you around a bit now.... and congratulations
  on your new purchase! I've often considered the idea of an emaxII, but never
  quite managed to get one yet.



  julian

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  http://bleepin.com


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