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EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP

EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP

2006-06-25 by esynthesist

A few weeks ago I posted a pre-release beta version of the new EMXP 
software. 
It supports reading/writing EMAX-II zip disks from a WinXP PC 
directly instead of having to copy EMX images to a floppy first and 
then having to copy these to ZIP disks on your EMAX sampler.

Only EMAX-II disks are supported however. I guess some of you would 
also appreciate support for EMAX-I ZIP disks ?

Since I don't have a SCSI-enabled EMAX-I sampler, I need some help 
from those of you who are lucky to have such a setup.
Therefore I wrote a little program that collects some data from your 
EMAX-1 ZIP-disk(s). If some of you are willing to run this program 
and to send the outputfile to me (esynthesist@...), I might be 
able to add EMAX-I ZIP disk support to EMXP later.

The program can be found here:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/files/EMXP/
It's called EMAX1ZIPTEST.
You'll need a ZIP drive connected to your Windows XP PC of course...

By the way:
- the ZIP disk must contain some banks, otherwise it won't be very 
helpful to me. 
- the file generated by this program will not contain any actual 
sound data from your ZIP disk, so you don't have to be afraid that 
I'm trying to obtain your sound banks :-)
- the program does not write anything to your ZIP disk, so it can't 
destroy your ZIP disks.

If the size of the outputfile is more than 500 000 bytes, please let 
me know but don't send the file because something must have gone 
wrong. 

Any feedback on the current beta-version of EMXP is still welcome (I 
haven't had a lot I must say...)

Thanks in advance !

///E-Synthesist

Re: [emax] EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP

2006-06-25 by Marcelo Simoni

Dear Esynthesist
Thanks once again for another boost on our possibilities to use the Emax The EXMP
Although I couldn't make it work on my PC. When I try to manage emx banks (option 1), it says error 126 - no images found (all of my images are on the same directory as EMXP.
When I use option 2, it shows error 27 "seup.em1" corrupt.

If you can tell me what I should do to make it work I'd apreciate!

thanks so much!

Marcelo


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: esynthesist 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:37 PM
  Subject: [emax] EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP


  A few weeks ago I posted a pre-release beta version of the new EMXP 
  software. 
  It supports reading/writing EMAX-II zip disks from a WinXP PC 
  directly instead of having to copy EMX images to a floppy first and 
  then having to copy these to ZIP disks on your EMAX sampler.

  Only EMAX-II disks are supported however. I guess some of you would 
  also appreciate support for EMAX-I ZIP disks ?

  Since I don't have a SCSI-enabled EMAX-I sampler, I need some help 
  from those of you who are lucky to have such a setup.
  Therefore I wrote a little program that collects some data from your 
  EMAX-1 ZIP-disk(s). If some of you are willing to run this program 
  and to send the outputfile to me (esynthesist@...), I might be 
  able to add EMAX-I ZIP disk support to EMXP later.

  The program can be found here:
  http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/files/EMXP/
  It's called EMAX1ZIPTEST.
  You'll need a ZIP drive connected to your Windows XP PC of course...

  By the way:
  - the ZIP disk must contain some banks, otherwise it won't be very 
  helpful to me. 
  - the file generated by this program will not contain any actual 
  sound data from your ZIP disk, so you don't have to be afraid that 
  I'm trying to obtain your sound banks :-)
  - the program does not write anything to your ZIP disk, so it can't 
  destroy your ZIP disks.

  If the size of the outputfile is more than 500 000 bytes, please let 
  me know but don't send the file because something must have gone 
  wrong. 

  Any feedback on the current beta-version of EMXP is still welcome (I 
  haven't had a lot I must say...)

  Thanks in advance !

  ///E-Synthesist



   


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emxp

2006-06-25 by Andy

just wanted to see if anyone has formatted an EMAX 1 boot disk with
this software, i don't have winxp but am going to try it on a friends
computer, just wondering if EMXP will make a boot disk b/c EMX has
never worked for me
much thanks!
~AJB

Re: EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP

2006-06-26 by esynthesist

Hi Marcelo,

EMXP requires that all images are put in a subdirectory called Images.
This directory is created automatically the first time you run the 
new EMXP software. Images located in the same directory as the one 
containing EMXPN.EXE are not detected by EMXPN. So I guess you simply 
have to move all your images to the Images subdirectory.

Note that option 1 manages "EMAX BANKS", not "EMX BANKS". EMX banks 
are managed by option 2.
EMAX Banks are new in this version of EMXP, they are the core images 
used by EMXP. EMX bank images are just images of floppy disks, while 
EMAX bank images contain the full sound bank. This is esp. useful for 
EMAX-II 16-bit banks which can take up to 16 floppy disks = 16 EMX 
images, but that only need 1 EMAX bank image.

Error 27 tells you that the .EM1 file is not a correct EMX *sound* 
bank image. All files in the Images subdirectory having an extension 
of .EM1 or .EM2 MUST be correct EMX S O U N D bank images. If 
an .EM1/.EM2 file is not an EMX S O U N D bank image, EMXP will show 
this error and won't continue.
Of course I don't know exactly what your SEUP.EM1 file really 
contains, but there are three possible causes for the error:
- SEUP.EM1 is a corrupt EMX sound bank image (this would mean that 
using one of the presets in an EMAX sampler can cause the EMAX 
sampler to crash while playing the instrument)
- SEUP.EM1 is an Operating System image (size about 260K). I forgot 
to mention this in the manual, but these images should NOT be put in 
the Images directory or should have an extension different from .EM1 
and .EM2...
- my rev. engineered EMX image specifications are wrong :-).

If you think your SEUP.EM1 file is a 100% correct SOUND image (not an 
OS image), please send it to me in a zip-file, so that I can 
doublecheck my specifications.

I hope this helps...

///E-Synthesist




--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Marcelo Simoni" <marcelo@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Esynthesist
> Thanks once again for another boost on our possibilities to use the 
Emax The EXMP
> Although I couldn't make it work on my PC. When I try to manage emx 
banks (option 1), it says error 126 - no images found (all of my 
images are on the same directory as EMXP.
> When I use option 2, it shows error 27 "seup.em1" corrupt.
> 
> If you can tell me what I should do to make it work I'd apreciate!
> 
> thanks so much!
> 
> Marcelo
> 
> 
> Condor Aircraft Aero Agrícola Ltda
> Representante Exclusivo PZL-Mielec
> Fone: +(43)3538-5524
> Cel.: +(43)9977-0058
> WebSite: www.condoraircraft.com.br
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: esynthesist 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:37 PM
>   Subject: [emax] EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP
> 
> 
>   A few weeks ago I posted a pre-release beta version of the new 
EMXP 
>   software. 
>   It supports reading/writing EMAX-II zip disks from a WinXP PC 
>   directly instead of having to copy EMX images to a floppy first 
and 
>   then having to copy these to ZIP disks on your EMAX sampler.
> 
>   Only EMAX-II disks are supported however. I guess some of you 
would 
>   also appreciate support for EMAX-I ZIP disks ?
> 
>   Since I don't have a SCSI-enabled EMAX-I sampler, I need some 
help 
>   from those of you who are lucky to have such a setup.
>   Therefore I wrote a little program that collects some data from 
your 
>   EMAX-1 ZIP-disk(s). If some of you are willing to run this 
program 
>   and to send the outputfile to me (esynthesist@...), I might be 
>   able to add EMAX-I ZIP disk support to EMXP later.
> 
>   The program can be found here:
>   http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/files/EMXP/
>   It's called EMAX1ZIPTEST.
>   You'll need a ZIP drive connected to your Windows XP PC of 
course...
> 
>   By the way:
>   - the ZIP disk must contain some banks, otherwise it won't be 
very 
>   helpful to me. 
>   - the file generated by this program will not contain any actual 
>   sound data from your ZIP disk, so you don't have to be afraid 
that 
>   I'm trying to obtain your sound banks :-)
>   - the program does not write anything to your ZIP disk, so it 
can't 
>   destroy your ZIP disks.
> 
>   If the size of the outputfile is more than 500 000 bytes, please 
let 
>   me know but don't send the file because something must have gone 
>   wrong. 
> 
>   Any feedback on the current beta-version of EMXP is still welcome 
(I 
>   haven't had a lot I must say...)
> 
>   Thanks in advance !
> 
>   ///E-Synthesist
> 
> 
> 
>    
> 
> 
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Re: emxp

2006-06-26 by esynthesist

It is not guaranteed that a disk formatted by EMXP can boot on an EMAX-
1 sampler. This is due to slightly different diskdrive specs used in 
most EMAX-1 (and some EMAX-II) samplers. EMXP uses almost the same 
format parameters as EMX, so if EMX is not helpful I guess EMXP won't 
work for you either.

Note however that in my experience disks formatted by OmniFlop CAN boot 
on an EMAX-1 sampler (after putting an OS on it with EMX). That's 
because OmniFlop uses slightly different format parameters.
For more information on this see message 3281.

Regards

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Andy" <a7634@...> wrote:
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>
> just wanted to see if anyone has formatted an EMAX 1 boot disk with
> this software, i don't have winxp but am going to try it on a friends
> computer, just wondering if EMXP will make a boot disk b/c EMX has
> never worked for me
> much thanks!
> ~AJB
>

Re: emxp

2006-06-29 by Andy

ok makes sense to me, i'm going to find a friend with winxp and try
this ot this week, just wondering though, after i format with omniflop
do i still need to boot emx in dos 6.22 or lower b/c i am having a
hell of a time getting that to work with only 1 disk drive... once you
boot into dos, emx won't be able to write to the EMAX boot disk with a
2nd disk drive to carry the source file... also, it seems that dos
6.22 often won't read the fat32 files... ack... will try this week,
have been working on getting a PLUS boot disk together, would be much
easier if there was a copyQM image of it out there but alas, will have
to make it myself it seems... thanks for the info,
~AJB


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
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>
> It is not guaranteed that a disk formatted by EMXP can boot on an EMAX-
> 1 sampler. This is due to slightly different diskdrive specs used in 
> most EMAX-1 (and some EMAX-II) samplers. EMXP uses almost the same 
> format parameters as EMX, so if EMX is not helpful I guess EMXP won't 
> work for you either.
> 
> Note however that in my experience disks formatted by OmniFlop CAN boot 
> on an EMAX-1 sampler (after putting an OS on it with EMX). That's 
> because OmniFlop uses slightly different format parameters.
> For more information on this see message 3281.
> 
> Regards
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
> 
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Andy" <a7634@> wrote:
> >
> > just wanted to see if anyone has formatted an EMAX 1 boot disk with
> > this software, i don't have winxp but am going to try it on a friends
> > computer, just wondering if EMXP will make a boot disk b/c EMX has
> > never worked for me
> > much thanks!
> > ~AJB
> >
>

Re: EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP

2006-06-30 by Phil

Hey esynthesist!

many thanks for the emxp zip backup software!
I've run it a few times and had no problems at all so far 
backing up a zip in one go is a very handy thing - I look forward to 
the next instalment!

thanks again,
phil


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> A few weeks ago I posted a pre-release beta version of the new EMXP 
> software. 
> It supports reading/writing EMAX-II zip disks from a WinXP PC 
> directly instead of having to copy EMX images to a floppy first and 
> then having to copy these to ZIP disks on your EMAX sampler.
> 
> Only EMAX-II disks are supported however. I guess some of you would 
> also appreciate support for EMAX-I ZIP disks ?
> 
> Since I don't have a SCSI-enabled EMAX-I sampler, I need some help 
> from those of you who are lucky to have such a setup.
> Therefore I wrote a little program that collects some data from 
your 
> EMAX-1 ZIP-disk(s). If some of you are willing to run this program 
> and to send the outputfile to me (esynthesist@...), I might be 
> able to add EMAX-I ZIP disk support to EMXP later.
> 
> The program can be found here:
> http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/files/EMXP/
> It's called EMAX1ZIPTEST.
> You'll need a ZIP drive connected to your Windows XP PC of course...
> 
> By the way:
> - the ZIP disk must contain some banks, otherwise it won't be very 
> helpful to me. 
> - the file generated by this program will not contain any actual 
> sound data from your ZIP disk, so you don't have to be afraid that 
> I'm trying to obtain your sound banks :-)
> - the program does not write anything to your ZIP disk, so it can't 
> destroy your ZIP disks.
> 
> If the size of the outputfile is more than 500 000 bytes, please 
let 
> me know but don't send the file because something must have gone 
> wrong. 
> 
> Any feedback on the current beta-version of EMXP is still welcome 
(I 
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> haven't had a lot I must say...)
> 
> Thanks in advance !
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
>

Re: EMAX-1 Zip disk support in EMXP

2006-06-30 by esynthesist

Thanks !

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Phil" <hired_state@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Hey esynthesist!
> 
> many thanks for the emxp zip backup software!
> I've run it a few times and had no problems at all so far 
> backing up a zip in one go is a very handy thing - I look forward 
to 
> the next instalment!
> 
> thanks again,
> phil
> 
> 
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@> wrote:
> >
> > A few weeks ago I posted a pre-release beta version of the new 
EMXP 
> > software. 
> > It supports reading/writing EMAX-II zip disks from a WinXP PC 
> > directly instead of having to copy EMX images to a floppy first 
and 
> > then having to copy these to ZIP disks on your EMAX sampler.
> > 
> > Only EMAX-II disks are supported however. I guess some of you 
would 
> > also appreciate support for EMAX-I ZIP disks ?
> > 
> > Since I don't have a SCSI-enabled EMAX-I sampler, I need some 
help 
> > from those of you who are lucky to have such a setup.
> > Therefore I wrote a little program that collects some data from 
> your 
> > EMAX-1 ZIP-disk(s). If some of you are willing to run this 
program 
> > and to send the outputfile to me (esynthesist@), I might be 
> > able to add EMAX-I ZIP disk support to EMXP later.
> > 
> > The program can be found here:
> > http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/files/EMXP/
> > It's called EMAX1ZIPTEST.
> > You'll need a ZIP drive connected to your Windows XP PC of 
course...
> > 
> > By the way:
> > - the ZIP disk must contain some banks, otherwise it won't be 
very 
> > helpful to me. 
> > - the file generated by this program will not contain any actual 
> > sound data from your ZIP disk, so you don't have to be afraid 
that 
> > I'm trying to obtain your sound banks :-)
> > - the program does not write anything to your ZIP disk, so it 
can't 
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> > destroy your ZIP disks.
> > 
> > If the size of the outputfile is more than 500 000 bytes, please 
> let 
> > me know but don't send the file because something must have gone 
> > wrong. 
> > 
> > Any feedback on the current beta-version of EMXP is still welcome 
> (I 
> > haven't had a lot I must say...)
> > 
> > Thanks in advance !
> > 
> > ///E-Synthesist
> >
>

emxp

2009-04-15 by Niklas Noren

Does any know if there any plan to include eos format in the emxp program?

cheers
niklas

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