Emax

I'm the quintessential noob, and just found this online resource..

http://www.seib.synth.net/emax/banks.htm

E-mu Systems Factory Sample Library for the Emax

The Emax banks are in zipped EMX format for the PC. This means the
Emax sample diskette has been converted on a PC to a special EMX
format, which has then been compressed as a ZIP file.To use these
sample downloads, you need a copy of the EMX program for the PC. It is
a DOS program which will runs ok in Windows 95/98 (DOS mode, not DOS
window). [HS: and no, it won't run correctly under XP! It really got
to be DOS! If you haven't got a PC that's old enough, check out
FreeDOS.] It will create Emax I and II diskettes by writing the
unzipped files to a blank diskette in your PC diskette drive. It also
read Emax I and II OS and sample diskettes, and write them to your
hard drive.

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There's also a lot of related info in the FILES section here..  It's
VERY cool that my W98 PC should be able to create an EMAX readable
floppy..  and I found and downloaded a .zip file with the very sounds
I was seeking, in case Dave's method fails.  And of course this would
be an opportunity to add to my collection of EMAX sounds.

is there a general guideline to using these utilities?  a README of
some sort?

thanks,

Karl

Karl,

I'm glad you found Hermann's site. I was just going to suggest it to you! (I
actually emailed the list earlier with his site, but I inadvertantly sent it
from the wrong account and it never made it to the list).

I contributed some of my Emax library to add to his & Diego's collection.
Are there any other list members out there who might have some of the
missing images?

Regarding the utility, I seem to recall just running the .EXE (in DOS mode)
and using the menu to read/write/format Emax floppies. There is also
esynthesist's EMXP utility (which I haven't tried yet) which runs under
windows XP.

Good luck!

-Dave

On 7/11/07, Karl M <mkarl2@...> wrote:
>
>   I'm the quintessential noob, and just found this online resource..
>
> http://www.seib.synth.net/emax/banks.htm
>
> E-mu Systems Factory Sample Library for the Emax
>
> The Emax banks are in zipped EMX format for the PC. This means the
> Emax sample diskette has been converted on a PC to a special EMX
> format, which has then been compressed as a ZIP file.To use these
> sample downloads, you need a copy of the EMX program for the PC. It is
> a DOS program which will runs ok in Windows 95/98 (DOS mode, not DOS
> window). [HS: and no, it won't run correctly under XP! It really got
> to be DOS! If you haven't got a PC that's old enough, check out
> FreeDOS.] It will create Emax I and II diskettes by writing the
> unzipped files to a blank diskette in your PC diskette drive. It also
> read Emax I and II OS and sample diskettes, and write them to your
> hard drive.
>
> ..................
>
> There's also a lot of related info in the FILES section here.. It's
> VERY cool that my W98 PC should be able to create an EMAX readable
> floppy.. and I found and downloaded a .zip file with the very sounds
> I was seeking, in case Dave's method fails. And of course this would
> be an opportunity to add to my collection of EMAX sounds.
>
> is there a general guideline to using these utilities? a README of
> some sort?
>
> thanks,
>
> Karl
>
>  
>


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