Emax

Hi,

I read some old messages concerning board swapping between an Emax 2 
rack and a keyboard. I have a 2mb KB and a 8mb rack and i'd like to 
have them the other way around. Can anybody give me some advice ? 
Thanks,

Diego

Switch out both boards in both machines, not just the
daughter/upgrade board.  I had the same situation and
it didn't work by just switching the daughter boards.

They fit rack and keyboard.  I did have an odd problem
with sampling after.  The key position got transposed
somehow and everything I sampled was out of tune and
had to be transposed up.  I don't know if it's the
keyboard controller interface or what but it was a
pain and took some hard thinking to figure out what
was going on.

GOod luck!

--- bishop1973ar <dhpb@...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I read some old messages concerning board swapping
> between an Emax 2 
> rack and a keyboard. I have a 2mb KB and a 8mb rack
> and i'd like to 
> have them the other way around. Can anybody give me
> some advice ? 
> Thanks,
> 
> Diego
> 
> 
> 



		
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J R,

Thanks for your advice and for answering my mail too. I swapped all 
the boards (CPU + daughter and analog output), except the 
display/buttons board which is incompatible. After the swap i got 
this:

At the first power on all lights turn on, including the FD one and 
the LCD displays a horizontal black "bar" in the bottom row. If i 
turn off and on, only two of the three "normal" lights turn on, there 
is no LCD output and the FD light turns on too. Thanks,

Diego

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, J R <bjbearorl@y...> wrote:

> Switch out both boards in both machines, not just the
> daughter/upgrade board.  I had the same situation and
> it didn't work by just switching the daughter boards.
> 
> They fit rack and keyboard.  I did have an odd problem
> with sampling after.  The key position got transposed
> somehow and everything I sampled was out of tune and
> had to be transposed up.  I don't know if it's the
> keyboard controller interface or what but it was a
> pain and took some hard thinking to figure out what
> was going on.
> 
> GOod luck!
> 
> --- bishop1973ar <dhpb@c...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I read some old messages concerning board swapping
> > between an Emax 2 
> > rack and a keyboard. I have a 2mb KB and a 8mb rack
> > and i'd like to 
> > have them the other way around. Can anybody give me
> > some advice ? 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Diego
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 		
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Oooh, be careful, I shorted out an Emax 2 motherboard
by forcing a SCSI Zip drives connector the wrong way
without looking from the back.  Those motherboards are
way easy to blow.

I'm not sure of what the lights mean, there is an emu
diagnostic paper floating around that tells you what
some of the startup lighting means.  I will try to
look for it, that's how I determined how I fried my
scsi controller.  The emax displays certain lights
full 'on' upon startup when something goes wrong.

I'll try to find this documentation.

Post to the board and ask for it in the meantime since
someone else may have it handy.




--- bishop1973ar <dhpb@...> wrote:

> J R,
> 
> Thanks for your advice and for answering my mail
> too. I swapped all 
> the boards (CPU + daughter and analog output),
> except the 
> display/buttons board which is incompatible. After
> the swap i got 
> this:
> 
> At the first power on all lights turn on, including
> the FD one and 
> the LCD displays a horizontal black "bar" in the
> bottom row. If i 
> turn off and on, only two of the three "normal"
> lights turn on, there 
> is no LCD output and the FD light turns on too.
> Thanks,
> 
> Diego
> 
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, J R <bjbearorl@y...>
> wrote:
> > Switch out both boards in both machines, not just
> the
> > daughter/upgrade board.  I had the same situation
> and
> > it didn't work by just switching the daughter
> boards.
> > 
> > They fit rack and keyboard.  I did have an odd
> problem
> > with sampling after.  The key position got
> transposed
> > somehow and everything I sampled was out of tune
> and
> > had to be transposed up.  I don't know if it's the
> > keyboard controller interface or what but it was a
> > pain and took some hard thinking to figure out
> what
> > was going on.
> > 
> > GOod luck!
> > 
> > --- bishop1973ar <dhpb@c...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I read some old messages concerning board
> swapping
> > > between an Emax 2 
> > > rack and a keyboard. I have a 2mb KB and a 8mb
> rack
> > > and i'd like to 
> > > have them the other way around. Can anybody give
> me
> > > some advice ? 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Diego
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 		
> > __________________________________ 
> > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> 
> 
> 



		
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