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Massive Floppy Consolodation

2005-09-27 by s*

Hi, 

I have a huge library of sounds for my Emax II.  I essentially have 3 shoe boxes full of samples on Floppy Disk.  It's a real pain when I really want to load a specific sound and have to go through each box searching for it.  I have a SCSI Hard drive and Zip disk but, loading each disk into the sampler and then switching drives and resaving it to the zip or HD takes forever!  Is there a program that will let me manage load the sounds into my computer and then manage them there and put them on a SCSI Hard Drive or Zip?  I tried Chicken systems translator but, I couldn't seem to get it to work.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

BTW, I have both a PC and Mac so I can use software on either platform.  

thanks,

-s*

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Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation

2005-09-27 by esynthesist

As far as I know there isn't. I looked everywhere, and also read the 
message archive of this site: the only thing that seem to exist is 
the EMX program, but that program doesn't care about the *contents* 
of an EMAX disk image, it just loads and unloads the images on PC. 

I'm also pretty sure that writing EMAX disk images directly to a ZIP 
disk from PC is impossible. EMX is limited to floppy disks, and no 
other software for reading / writing EMAX images exists (except 
perhaps Translator from Chicken systems).

Chicken systems Translator 2.9 seems to support Emax finally (they 
were working on that for a long time :-) but it doesn't work properly 
on my computer... You can use it however to browse all .em1 files on 
your harddisk and see what presets (their names).

Because I had the same problem a while ago, I started working on a 
(simple) program that can read the EMX floppy disk images and that 
can produce & store HTML files reporting everything which is on the 
disk (i.e. all presets, all parameters such as filter & envelope 
settings, spectrum synthesis parameters, sequences, WAV-converted 
samples, and so on). It will be a kind of a PC-librarian program for 
EMAX sound banks, but a very simple one with almost no features - 
even no GUI, only HTML :-)

Of course I needed the EMAX disk specification for that. This 
specification however has never been published by E-mu Systems (again 
as far as I know :-).

So I spent some evenings during the last couple of months to find out 
the EMAX disk image layout by reverse engineering the whole thing. 
That was fun ! Anyway, I just finished this. 

So now I will start programming that little librarian program.

Maybe that kind of program would help ? 

Regards, 

///E-synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "s*" <scart@s...> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a huge library of sounds for my Emax II.  I essentially have 
3 shoe boxes full of samples on Floppy Disk.  It's a real pain when I 
really want to load a specific sound and have to go through each box 
searching for it.  I have a SCSI Hard drive and Zip disk but, loading 
each disk into the sampler and then switching drives and resaving it 
to the zip or HD takes forever!  Is there a program that will let me 
manage load the sounds into my computer and then manage them there 
and put them on a SCSI Hard Drive or Zip?  I tried Chicken systems 
translator but, I couldn't seem to get it to work.  Any help is 
greatly appreciated.
> 
> BTW, I have both a PC and Mac so I can use software on either 
platform.

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> 
> thanks,
> 
> -s*
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation

2005-09-27 by s*

Wow, I am definitely interested in your program.  Kudos on your determined efforts.  If you need any beta testers, just let me know.  

thanks,

-s*
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: esynthesist 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:44 PM
  Subject: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation

  As far as I know there isn't. I looked everywhere, and also read the 
  message archive of this site: the only thing that seem to exist is 
  the EMX program, but that program doesn't care about the *contents* 
  of an EMAX disk image, it just loads and unloads the images on PC. 

  I'm also pretty sure that writing EMAX disk images directly to a ZIP 
  disk from PC is impossible. EMX is limited to floppy disks, and no 
  other software for reading / writing EMAX images exists (except 
  perhaps Translator from Chicken systems).

  Chicken systems Translator 2.9 seems to support Emax finally (they 
  were working on that for a long time :-) but it doesn't work properly 
  on my computer... You can use it however to browse all .em1 files on 
  your harddisk and see what presets (their names).

  Because I had the same problem a while ago, I started working on a 
  (simple) program that can read the EMX floppy disk images and that 
  can produce & store HTML files reporting everything which is on the 
  disk (i.e. all presets, all parameters such as filter & envelope 
  settings, spectrum synthesis parameters, sequences, WAV-converted 
  samples, and so on). It will be a kind of a PC-librarian program for 
  EMAX sound banks, but a very simple one with almost no features - 
  even no GUI, only HTML :-)

  Of course I needed the EMAX disk specification for that. This 
  specification however has never been published by E-mu Systems (again 
  as far as I know :-).

  So I spent some evenings during the last couple of months to find out 
  the EMAX disk image layout by reverse engineering the whole thing. 
  That was fun ! Anyway, I just finished this. 

  So now I will start programming that little librarian program.

  Maybe that kind of program would help ? 

  Regards, 

  ///E-synthesist

  --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "s*" <scart@s...> wrote:
  > Hi, 
  > 
  > I have a huge library of sounds for my Emax II.  I essentially have 
  3 shoe boxes full of samples on Floppy Disk.  It's a real pain when I 
  really want to load a specific sound and have to go through each box 
  searching for it.  I have a SCSI Hard drive and Zip disk but, loading 
  each disk into the sampler and then switching drives and resaving it 
  to the zip or HD takes forever!  Is there a program that will let me 
  manage load the sounds into my computer and then manage them there 
  and put them on a SCSI Hard Drive or Zip?  I tried Chicken systems 
  translator but, I couldn't seem to get it to work.  Any help is 
  greatly appreciated.
  > 
  > BTW, I have both a PC and Mac so I can use software on either 
  platform.  
  > 
  > thanks,
  > 
  > -s*
  > 
  > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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Re: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation

2005-09-27 by elmacaco

I've been praying for such a program since I got my Emax.  I don;t think Translator supports Emax I files and it may never do so.

Sign me up for beta test duties as well, I love the emax and being able to use the computer with it would be such a blessing.

Thanks for doing this man.

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----- Original Message -----
From: s*
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation

Wow, I am definitely interested in your program. Kudos on your determined efforts. If you need any beta testers, just let me know.

thanks,

-s*
scart@...
----- Original Message -----
From: esynthesist
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:44 PM
Subject: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation

As far as I know there isn't. I looked everywhere, and also read the
message archive of this site: the only thing that seem to exist is
the EMX program, but that program doesn't care about the *contents*
of an EMAX disk image, it just loads and unloads the images on PC.

I'm also pretty sure that writing EMAX disk images directly to a ZIP
disk from PC is impossible. EMX is limited to floppy disks, and no
other software for reading / writing EMAX images exists (except
perhaps Translator from Chicken systems).

Chicken systems Translator 2.9 seems to support Emax finally (they
were working on that for a long time :-) but it doesn't work properly
on my computer... You can use it however to browse all .em1 files on
your harddisk and see what presets (their names).

Because I had the same problem a while ago, I started working on a
(simple) program that can read the EMX floppy disk images and that
can produce & store HTML files reporting everything which is on the
disk (i.e. all presets, all parameters such as filter & envelope
settings, spectrum synthesis parameters, sequences, WAV-converted
samples, and so on). It will be a kind of a PC-librarian program for
EMAX sound banks, but a very simple one with almost no features -
even no GUI, only HTML :-)

Of course I needed the EMAX disk specification for that. This
specification however has never been published by E-mu Systems (again
as far as I know :-).

So I spent some evenings during the last couple of months to find out
the EMAX disk image layout by reverse engineering the whole thing.
That was fun ! Anyway, I just finished this.

So now I will start programming that little librarian program.

Maybe that kind of program would help ?

Regards,

///E-synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "s*" <scart@s...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a huge library of sounds for my Emax II. I essentially have
3 shoe boxes full of samples on Floppy Disk. It's a real pain when I
really want to load a specific sound and have to go through each box
searching for it. I have a SCSI Hard drive and Zip disk but, loading
each disk into the sampler and then switching drives and resaving it
to the zip or HD takes forever! Is there a program that will let me
manage load the sounds into my computer and then manage them there
and put them on a SCSI Hard Drive or Zip? I tried Chicken systems
translator but, I couldn't seem to get it to work. Any help is
greatly appreciated.
>
> BTW, I have both a PC and Mac so I can use software on either
platform.
>
> thanks,
>
> -s*
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Emax and Emax II User's Group Website

http://www.silveriafamily.com

SPONSORED LINKS Electronic instrument Emax Synthesizer music
Electronic music Music sampler Electronic musical instrument

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Electronic music Music sampler Electronic musical instrument

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SV: Re: [emax] Re: Massive Floppy Consolodation

2005-09-28 by Brian Ronn

Hi Elmacaco
 
I urge you to join the Translator forum and give your amount of pressure to the Translator folks on the thread regarding 'E2,3,3x support' dated 09-23-2005 04:14 PM which also contain the Emax, and Emax II conversion wish:
 
http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=30
 
For everyone else who would like to have the conversion to and from the Emu samplers join in and give your thoughts and pressure on this thread too. We need the conversion and unless the Translator folks see a large public interest in this conversion it might never happen.
 
Best regards
 
Brian alias Emu_man in the Translator forum
 
elmacaco <elmacaco@...> skrev:
I've been praying for such a program since I got my Emax.  I don;t think Translator supports Emax I files and it may never do so.

Sign me up for beta test duties as well, I love the emax and being able to use the computer with it would be such a blessing.

Thanks for doing this man.