Emax

I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large amount of
sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is wrong
with it. Whenever I play the keys or mess with the wheels, the sounds
all come out glitchy and distorted. It's hard to describe, but I know
the machine is not supposed to do this. The character of the sound
changes horribly and sometimes the pitch wheel does not respond.

I have a few sampler/drum machines and I was wondering if it's
possible to convert the Emax sounds to ASRX/MPC2000xl/RolandMV8000
formats. Either one of these formats will do.

Someone told me that the Kurzweil K2500 will load up the emu discs,
but I do not have the cash to spend on one of those nor another Emax.
Chicken Systems offers a translator, but I would like to know how well
it works before giving up $80 for it. 

Any help would be appreciated and thank you for your time.

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "reshad" <joty5@...> wrote:
> check the caps on the sample and holds these are the digital to
analog multiplexing out puts to the filters and vca when you modulate
the wheel the information is sampled and sent to the multiplexer which
turns the digital information into voltages to control the filters
response if the caps are down then they dont perform well and you can
get mismatched voltages making havoc with the vca and filter ic,s does
it do it on every channel

have you tried using the separate outs and seeing which one is causing
the glitching 

if it from every channel then it could be the echip have you checked
the the voltage to the chip some of the chips produced was not up to
scratch so emu rather than dumping the batch they added a trim pot  to
vary the incoming voltage  input to each of the echips 

if its the echip gone then the synth is buggard as you cant get the
chip with out scavenging another machine

jammie

> I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large amount of
> sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is wrong
> with it. Whenever I play the keys or mess with the wheels, the sounds
> all come out glitchy and distorted. It's hard to describe, but I know
> the machine is not supposed to do this. The character of the sound
> changes horribly and sometimes the pitch wheel does not respond.
> 
> I have a few sampler/drum machines and I was wondering if it's
> possible to convert the Emax sounds to ASRX/MPC2000xl/RolandMV8000
> formats. Either one of these formats will do.
> 
> Someone told me that the Kurzweil K2500 will load up the emu discs,
> but I do not have the cash to spend on one of those nor another Emax.
> Chicken Systems offers a translator, but I would like to know how well
> it works before giving up $80 for it. 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated and thank you for your time.
>

If you can't fix the Emax, and want to translate your emax banks to 
one of your three other sampler units, I guess Chickensys Translator 
will be the only option... but you'll need a workaround: Translator 
does not fully support Emax-I (although this is not clearly mentioned 
on their website). So what you would have to do is use EMXP to 
translate the Emax banks to EIII banks, put them on an EIII 
cdrom/disk image, and use that as the import format for Translator 
which hopefully will convert them to ASRX, MV8000 or MPC...

If you only want to convert the actual sounds (without 
preset/voice/sample parameters) you can of course simply extract the 
Emax samples to WAV with EMXP and load these WAVs in your other 
sampler (I assume at least one of them supports WAV, the Roland for 
instance)

I would be really surprised if the K2500 would support Emax disks. 
Perhaps EIII, but Emax ???

Anyway the best option is to have a look into your Emax and solve the 
hardware problem !

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "reshad" <joty5@...> wrote:
>
> I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large amount 
of
> sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is 
wrong
> with it. Whenever I play the keys or mess with the wheels, the 
sounds
> all come out glitchy and distorted. It's hard to describe, but I 
know
> the machine is not supposed to do this. The character of the sound
> changes horribly and sometimes the pitch wheel does not respond.
> 
> I have a few sampler/drum machines and I was wondering if it's
> possible to convert the Emax sounds to ASRX/MPC2000xl/RolandMV8000
> formats. Either one of these formats will do.
> 
> Someone told me that the Kurzweil K2500 will load up the emu discs,
> but I do not have the cash to spend on one of those nor another 
Emax.
> Chicken Systems offers a translator, but I would like to know how 
well

> it works before giving up $80 for it. 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated and thank you for your time.
>

doesn't EMXP convert to S1000 images?  i think that might be the best bet
since most samplers (including the K2000, K2500) will load S1000 samples.


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:52 PM, esynthesist <esynthesist@...> wrote:

>   If you can't fix the Emax, and want to translate your emax banks to
> one of your three other sampler units, I guess Chickensys Translator
> will be the only option... but you'll need a workaround: Translator
> does not fully support Emax-I (although this is not clearly mentioned
> on their website). So what you would have to do is use EMXP to
> translate the Emax banks to EIII banks, put them on an EIII
> cdrom/disk image, and use that as the import format for Translator
> which hopefully will convert them to ASRX, MV8000 or MPC...
>
> If you only want to convert the actual sounds (without
> preset/voice/sample parameters) you can of course simply extract the
> Emax samples to WAV with EMXP and load these WAVs in your other
> sampler (I assume at least one of them supports WAV, the Roland for
> instance)
>
> I would be really surprised if the K2500 would support Emax disks.
> Perhaps EIII, but Emax ???
>
> Anyway the best option is to have a look into your Emax and solve the
> hardware problem !
>
> ///E-Synthesist
>
>
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, "reshad" <joty5@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large amount
> of
> > sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is
> wrong
> > with it. Whenever I play the keys or mess with the wheels, the
> sounds
> > all come out glitchy and distorted. It's hard to describe, but I
> know
> > the machine is not supposed to do this. The character of the sound
> > changes horribly and sometimes the pitch wheel does not respond.
> >
> > I have a few sampler/drum machines and I was wondering if it's
> > possible to convert the Emax sounds to ASRX/MPC2000xl/RolandMV8000
> > formats. Either one of these formats will do.
> >
> > Someone told me that the Kurzweil K2500 will load up the emu discs,
> > but I do not have the cash to spend on one of those nor another
> Emax.
> > Chicken Systems offers a translator, but I would like to know how
> well
> > it works before giving up $80 for it.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated and thank you for your time.
> >
>
>  
>


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Yes it does...
...as long as you can use S1000 floppy disks in the targetsampler.
If the targetsampler needs S1000 cdroms or S1000 removable harddisks, 
you would have to put the S1000 programs and samples created by EMXP 
on an S1000 compatible CDROM/HD first. And this is not supported by 
EMXP because I couldn't figure out the harddisk layout of Akai yet. 
And as far as I know there is not a lot of other software out there 
(maybe none ?) which can do this job. (anyone ?)
As a workaround I used to use my S1000HD sampler for this purpose: I 
loaded the floppy disk created by EMXP and saved the contents to a 
ZIP disk connected to the SCSI port of the S1000HD. 

///E-Synthesist


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Brooks Mosher" <brooksmosher@...> wrote:
>
> doesn't EMXP convert to S1000 images?  i think that might be the 
best bet
> since most samplers (including the K2000, K2500) will load S1000 
samples.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:52 PM, esynthesist <esynthesist@...> 
wrote:
> 
> >   If you can't fix the Emax, and want to translate your emax 
banks to
> > one of your three other sampler units, I guess Chickensys 
Translator
> > will be the only option... but you'll need a workaround: 
Translator
> > does not fully support Emax-I (although this is not clearly 
mentioned
> > on their website). So what you would have to do is use EMXP to
> > translate the Emax banks to EIII banks, put them on an EIII
> > cdrom/disk image, and use that as the import format for Translator
> > which hopefully will convert them to ASRX, MV8000 or MPC...
> >
> > If you only want to convert the actual sounds (without
> > preset/voice/sample parameters) you can of course simply extract 
the
> > Emax samples to WAV with EMXP and load these WAVs in your other
> > sampler (I assume at least one of them supports WAV, the Roland 
for
> > instance)
> >
> > I would be really surprised if the K2500 would support Emax disks.
> > Perhaps EIII, but Emax ???
> >
> > Anyway the best option is to have a look into your Emax and solve 
the
> > hardware problem !
> >
> > ///E-Synthesist
> >
> >
> > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, "reshad" 
<joty5@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large 
amount
> > of
> > > sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is
> > wrong
> > > with it. Whenever I play the keys or mess with the wheels, the
> > sounds
> > > all come out glitchy and distorted. It's hard to describe, but I
> > know
> > > the machine is not supposed to do this. The character of the 
sound
> > > changes horribly and sometimes the pitch wheel does not respond.
> > >
> > > I have a few sampler/drum machines and I was wondering if it's
> > > possible to convert the Emax sounds to 
ASRX/MPC2000xl/RolandMV8000
> > > formats. Either one of these formats will do.
> > >
> > > Someone told me that the Kurzweil K2500 will load up the emu 
discs,
> > > but I do not have the cash to spend on one of those nor another
> > Emax.
> > > Chicken Systems offers a translator, but I would like to know 
how

> > well
> > > it works before giving up $80 for it.
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated and thank you for your time.
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

I can confirm that the K2500 does not support reading any Emu disk formats. However, it will read various Akai, Roland and Ensoniq formats. 

/Tristan

Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 4:52:08 AM, you wrote:

>
If you can't fix the Emax, and want to translate your emax banks to 
one of your three other sampler units, I guess Chickensys Translator 
will be the only option... but you'll need a workaround: Translator 
does not fully support Emax-I (although this is not clearly mentioned 
on their website). So what you would have to do is use EMXP to 
translate the Emax banks to EIII banks, put them on an EIII 
cdrom/disk image, and use that as the import format for Translator 
which hopefully will convert them to ASRX, MV8000 or MPC...

If you only want to convert the actual sounds (without 
preset/voice/sample parameters) you can of course simply extract the 
Emax samples to WAV with EMXP and load these WAVs in your other 
sampler (I assume at least one of them supports WAV, the Roland for 
instance)

I would be really surprised if the K2500 would support Emax disks. 
Perhaps EIII, but Emax ???

Anyway the best option is to have a look into your Emax and solve the 
hardware problem !

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "reshad" <joty5@...> wrote:
>
> I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large amount 
of
> sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is 
wrong
> with it. Whenever I play the keys or mess with the wheels, the 
sounds
> all come out glitchy and distorted. It's hard to describe, but I 
know
> the machine is not supposed to do this. The character of the sound
> changes horribly and sometimes the pitch wheel does not respond.
> 
> I have a few sampler/drum machines and I was wondering if it's
> possible to convert the Emax sounds to ASRX/MPC2000xl/RolandMV8000
> formats. Either one of these formats will do.
> 
> Someone told me that the Kurzweil K2500 will load up the emu discs,
> but I do not have the cash to spend on one of those nor another 
Emax.
> Chicken Systems offers a translator, but I would like to know how 
well

> it works before giving up $80 for it. 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated and thank you for your time.
>