Emax

Hi everyone,
Just wondering if there is an emax I to .aif or .wav conversion utility available for the 
Mac.

Happy Holidays,

Matt Miller
www.millertone.com

Nothing that can get the audio portion off of a floppy disk, but any software that can 
perform MIDI Sample Dump Standard (SDS) transfers can retrieve/send samples via a 
MIDI cable.

On 21 Dec 2004 at 4:22, mandcmiller spoke unto me:

> Hi everyone,
> Just wondering if there is an emax I to .aif or .wav conversion
> utility available for the Mac.
> 
> Happy Holidays,
> 
> Matt Miller
> www.millertone.com

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                          John Silveria II
                   AIM & Yahoo! Messenger: EmaxJS
                        MSN: emaxjs@...
     The Silveria Family Website & Emax and Emax II User's Group
                    http://www.silveriafamily.com

What if I have the .EM1 files on my computer already?

-Matt


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "John Silveria" <emaxjs@s...> wrote:
> Nothing that can get the audio portion off of a floppy disk, but any software that 
can 
> perform MIDI Sample Dump Standard (SDS) transfers can retrieve/send samples via 
a 

> MIDI cable.
> 
> On 21 Dec 2004 at 4:22, mandcmiller spoke unto me:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > Just wondering if there is an emax I to .aif or .wav conversion
> > utility available for the Mac.
> > 
> > Happy Holidays,
> > 
> > Matt Miller
> > www.millertone.com
> 
> -- 
>                           John Silveria II
>                    AIM & Yahoo! Messenger: EmaxJS
>                         MSN: emaxjs@h...
>      The Silveria Family Website & Emax and Emax II User's Group
>                     http://www.silveriafamily.com

I've tried a couple of methods for stripping out the sound data from an Em1 file and 
nothing has produced desirable results. I think the main issue is that each sample within 
a bank can have a different sample rate so extracting the data at the right rate is nearly 
impossible.

On 21 Dec 2004 at 16:39, mandcmiller spoke unto me:

> What if I have the .EM1 files on my computer already?
> 
> -Matt

-- 
                          John Silveria II
                   AIM & Yahoo! Messenger: EmaxJS
                        MSN: emaxjs@...
     The Silveria Family Website & Emax and Emax II User's Group
                    http://www.silveriafamily.com

Gentlemen,

In the files section of this group there is a folder called Emu2wav 
containing a program I wrote some time ago.

It converts .em1 files to - you've guessed it - WAVs.

Although the exe is compiled for a PC the source code is there to 
perhaps compile for a Mac?

Perhaps a PC emulator for the Mac can run this simple progam.

Please read the readme there too.

Best regards

Chris


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "John Silveria" <emaxjs@s...> wrote:
> I've tried a couple of methods for stripping out the sound data 
from an Em1 file and 
> nothing has produced desirable results. I think the main issue is 
that each sample within 
> a bank can have a different sample rate so extracting the data at 
the right rate is nearly 

> impossible.
> 
> On 21 Dec 2004 at 16:39, mandcmiller spoke unto me:
> 
> > What if I have the .EM1 files on my computer already?
> > 
> > -Matt

Chris your program is one of the ones I've tried and not that I don't completely appreciate 
the effort but what I'm left with, even with banks that I've created the samples for, doesn't 
sound like the originals. I assume this is due to not knowing the original sample rate? 
Isn't there also the issue that it's creating 16 bit samples out of em1 files which are 
actually 12 bit samples? I believe the unwritten rule is that em1 files are from Emax 1 
banks and em2 files are from Emax II banks. For me it was just something I 
experimented with. I imagine with some effort in Sound Forge I could edit the results 
back into something that sounds like the original samples.

On 22 Dec 2004 at 12:41, Chris Strellis spoke unto me:

> Gentlemen,
> 
> In the files section of this group there is a folder called Emu2wav
> containing a program I wrote some time ago.
> 
> It converts .em1 files to - you've guessed it - WAVs.

-- 
                          John Silveria II
                   AIM & Yahoo! Messenger: EmaxJS
                        MSN: emaxjs@...
     The Silveria Family Website & Emax and Emax II User's Group
                    http://www.silveriafamily.com

Hi John

> Chris your program is one of the ones I've tried and not that I 
don't completely appreciate 
> the effort but what I'm left with, even with banks that I've 
created the samples for, doesn't 
> sound like the originals. I assume this is due to not knowing the 
original sample rate? 

Yes - you have to experiment - guess using 39000 first - please read 
the readme.

> Isn't there also the issue that it's creating 16 bit samples out of 
em1 files which are 
> actually 12 bit samples?

Emax stores the samples as 8 bit u-law which my program expands to 16 
bits linear.

> I believe the unwritten rule is that em1 files are from Emax 1 
> banks and em2 files are from Emax II banks.

Correct - em2 files will open directly into your 16 bit WAV editor of 
choice - open them as RAW PCM.

Best regards

Chris

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Strellis" <synthasy2000@y...> wrote:

> > Isn't there also the issue that it's creating 16 bit samples out of 
> em1 files which are 
> > actually 12 bit samples?
> 
> Emax stores the samples as 8 bit u-law which my program expands to 16 
> bits linear.

I am able to open .EM1 files using Sound Hack on the Mac. The samples playback 
poorly and a message comes up, upon opening the file, that asks me to input the 
proper header info - but that is just a bit (no pun intended) over my head I'm afraid. 
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Matt Miller