Emax

I installed a 540meg hard drive, a Quantum Lightning to be exact, 
into my EmaxII.. It seems to be working perfectly, except for this 
NASTY **high pitch** whine that just rings in the ears like mad (note 
that this high pitch whine was not present before the hard drive was 
installed).. The volume slider on the EmaxII doesn't affect how loud 
the squeel is either - even when the volume on the emaxII is all the 
way down, the whine is just as prevelant as before, and it seriously 
hurts the ears... Any suggestions on getting rid of this whine short 
of removing the hard drive?

Thanks,
  Michael

> I installed a 540meg hard drive, a Quantum Lightning to be exact, 
> into my EmaxII.. It seems to be working perfectly, except for this 
> NASTY **high pitch** whine that just rings in the ears like mad (note that
> this high pitch whine was not present before the hard drive was
> installed).. The volume slider on the EmaxII doesn't affect how loud the
> squeel is either - even when the volume on the emaxII is all the way down,
> the whine is just as prevelant as before, and it seriously hurts the
> ears... Any suggestions on getting rid of this whine short of removing the
> hard drive?

Although the squeal may have begun when you put in the hard drive 
there is a chance that this is the classic high pitch squeal caused by 
the LED. See my website for details. If it is your hard drive you might 
try to reseat your hard drive using some rubber washers as insulators. 

The sound itself is not coming out of the outputs it's coming out of the 
unit. Mine does it on ocassion at boot up and that's without a hard 
drive installed but after a few minutes it stops.


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It could be the bearings for the HD. Or perhaps it's vibrating some
other component. I seem to recall that LCD displays sometimes squeal
too.

Bob

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> > I installed a 540meg hard drive, a Quantum Lightning to be exact,
> > into my EmaxII.. It seems to be working perfectly, except for this
> > NASTY **high pitch** whine that just rings in the ears like mad (note that
> > this high pitch whine was not present before the hard drive was
> > installed).. The volume slider on the EmaxII doesn't affect how loud the
> > squeel is either - even when the volume on the emaxII is all the way down,
> > the whine is just as prevelant as before, and it seriously hurts the
> > ears... Any suggestions on getting rid of this whine short of removing the
> > hard drive?
> 
> Although the squeal may have begun when you put in the hard drive
> there is a chance that this is the classic high pitch squeal caused by
> the LED. See my website for details. If it is your hard drive you might
> try to reseat your hard drive using some rubber washers as insulators.
> 
> The sound itself is not coming out of the outputs it's coming out of the
> unit. Mine does it on ocassion at boot up and that's without a hard
> drive installed but after a few minutes it stops.
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No, it was coming out of the audio outs! When I turned the channel volume up
(of the channel where the Emax was inputing, of course) on my mixer, the
squeel got louder..  Anyhow, a few rubber feet (the sticky kind, from an old
mackie compact mixer) fixed that right up - I just had to seperate the hard
drive from the metal casing of the bottom panel... No more squeel, and I
still have a super speedy hard drive. :D

Thanks,
    Michael


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Subject: Re: [emax] Hard Drive whine


> > I installed a 540meg hard drive, a Quantum Lightning to be exact,
> > into my EmaxII.. It seems to be working perfectly, except for this
> > NASTY **high pitch** whine that just rings in the ears like mad (note
that
> > this high pitch whine was not present before the hard drive was
> > installed).. The volume slider on the EmaxII doesn't affect how loud the
> > squeel is either - even when the volume on the emaxII is all the way
down,
> > the whine is just as prevelant as before, and it seriously hurts the
> > ears... Any suggestions on getting rid of this whine short of removing
the
> > hard drive?
>
> Although the squeal may have begun when you put in the hard drive
> there is a chance that this is the classic high pitch squeal caused by
> the LED. See my website for details. If it is your hard drive you might
> try to reseat your hard drive using some rubber washers as insulators.
>
> The sound itself is not coming out of the outputs it's coming out of the
> unit. Mine does it on ocassion at boot up and that's without a hard
> drive installed but after a few minutes it stops.
>
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LED = LCD I was so close :)


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> No, it was coming out of the audio outs! When I turned the channel volume
> up (of the channel where the Emax was inputing, of course) on my mixer,
> the squeel got louder..  Anyhow, a few rubber feet (the sticky kind, from
> an old mackie compact mixer) fixed that right up - I just had to seperate
> the hard drive from the metal casing of the bottom panel... No more
> squeel, and I still have a super speedy hard drive. :D

I did mean to post the output part as a question, not as me telling you 
where the sound was. Glad to see it was a fairly easy fix!.


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>LED = LCD I was so close :)
>
>

But who would WANT a "Liquid Emitting Diode"?


(While I got this reply open, I have two queries for the congregation:

A) Anybody have any Emax <-> Macintosh diskette utilities?

B) Anybody a whiz at repairing Emax diskettes?




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No on both accounts, but out of curiousity, what's wrong with the diskettes?

-- Michael

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> >LED = LCD I was so close :)
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> But who would WANT a "Liquid Emitting Diode"?
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> B) Anybody a whiz at repairing Emax diskettes?
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>No on both accounts, but out of curiousity, what's wrong with the diskettes?
>
>-- Michael
>

(Travel back in time to 1987 ...)

Before I read the bit about using only double density diskettes -- hey, I'd
just moved to 3.5 from 5.25 -- I recorded a really neato sequence using a
copy of the factory choral disk.  I made two copies of this.  (See "Glass
Jaws" on my MP3c site, below, to hear the tape I made at the time.)

Upon my reading of the double density warning, both diskettes immediately
refused to load.  (Previously, I think Toon rules were in effect -- they
were too stupid to realize they should fail.)

Now, the odds are the failures in the diskettes are NOT in the new sequence
and patch information I created, because that's only a small bit of the
diskette.  SO, anybody with a copy of the factory diskette and each of
these broken ones could create a diskette with the sequence.


This is the sort of thing that I had tools for back in my AppleII days, but
I haven't seen 'em for the Mac.  Not that I've looked too hard ... the MP3
I uploaded is not too bad.


Currently, the Emax is packed away, since for a while at least, I had the
Bitheadz DS-1 software sampler working on my PowerBook.  (See Bitheadz list
for my problems with my new G4.)


Expanding the blue sky questioning a bit -- Has anybody thought of making a
software version of the Emax?  Something about the CruzControl arpeggiator
is just so neat, and even the weirdass stuff I can crank out in Digital
Performer doesn't quite do the same thing.





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> A) Anybody have any Emax <-> Macintosh diskette utilities?

Not I. I have been Mac ignorant since 1988.

> B) Anybody a whiz at repairing Emax diskettes?

I don't think it's possible. Even the EMX utility does nothing more than  
sector imaging. E-mu has never revealed what information is stored in 
which sectors. Of course, with my brain today I could be totally 
missing your point.


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> Now, the odds are the failures in the diskettes are NOT in the new
> sequence and patch information I created, because that's only a small bit
> of the diskette.  SO, anybody with a copy of the factory diskette and each
> of these broken ones could create a diskette with the sequence.

Just to prove how bad my memory is today.... Have you tried (is it even 
possible) to load just the sequence?

> Expanding the blue sky questioning a bit -- Has anybody thought of making
> a software version of the Emax?  Something about the CruzControl
> arpeggiator is just so neat, and even the weirdass stuff I can crank out
> in Digital Performer doesn't quite do the same thing.

Once again we go to E-mu's almost uncomfortably paranoid view of 
intellectual property. I doubt they would let anyone take a stab at it and 
if someone <gasp> succeeded E-mu would haul them off to court. 
Don't get me wrong I worship E-mu gear, but you best only get it from 
E-mu :)


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OK I've been so busy living I haven't taken the time to create any music 
lately and I'd like that to end. Anyone here in my new locality of San 
Diego County interested in perhaps making some music and taking 
over the world?

Even just hanging out and seeing if there are any bands of interest 
would be a great start.


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>> Now, the odds are the failures in the diskettes are NOT in the new
>> sequence and patch information I created, because that's only a small bit
>> of the diskette.  SO, anybody with a copy of the factory diskette and each
>> of these broken ones could create a diskette with the sequence.
>
>Just to prove how bad my memory is today.... Have you tried (is it even
>possible) to load just the sequence?

That dies, too.  I believe it's the same ol' BCC ERROR.


>
>> Expanding the blue sky questioning a bit -- Has anybody thought of making
>> a software version of the Emax?  Something about the CruzControl
>> arpeggiator is just so neat, and even the weirdass stuff I can crank out
>> in Digital Performer doesn't quite do the same thing.
>
>Once again we go to E-mu's almost uncomfortably paranoid view of
>intellectual property. I doubt they would let anyone take a stab at it and
>if someone <gasp> succeeded E-mu would haul them off to court.
>Don't get me wrong I worship E-mu gear, but you best only get it from
>E-mu :)
>

Hmmm ...  I suppose one could whip up a generic sample program, flexible
enough to act like an Emax, then release the file/diskette conversion
utility as freeware, along with an Emax "skin" ....


BUT if they wish to be left behind, so be it.   "CruzControl" isn't such an
astonishing idea that somebody couldn't write a MIDI utility to do the same
thing.

Another approach would be for an enterprising soul to specialize in
conversions ...  I'd love to move stuff from Emax diskettes to Bitheadz'
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>OK I've been so busy living I haven't taken the time to create any music
>lately and I'd like that to end. Anyone here in my new locality of San
>Diego County interested in perhaps making some music and taking
>over the world?

Sorry, but my world domination plans are based over here in Connecticut.
After I have all of Southern New England ground under my boot heel, next
comes the total subjugation of the Mid-Hudson Valley.  Then the enslavement
of the Big Apple itself.

All in all, it should be a busy month.


For 'lectronic music weirdness within your state -- tho probably not close
enough -- check out Win a New Head on mp3.com ...







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> Hmmm ...  I suppose one could whip up a generic sample program, flexible
> enough to act like an Emax, then release the file/diskette conversion
> utility as freeware, along with an Emax "skin" ....

But in order to create a file/diskette conversion program someone 
would have to find out the file format E-mu used which is the part they 
won't release.

> BUT if they wish to be left behind, so be it.   "CruzControl" isn't such
> an astonishing idea that somebody couldn't write a MIDI utility to do the
> same thing.

There are quiet a few software arpeggiators out there for the PC don't 
any of them do something similar to CruzControl? I do use the 
Arppegiator so I wouldn't know.

> Another approach would be for an enterprising soul to specialize in
> conversions ...  I'd love to move stuff from Emax diskettes to Bitheadz'
> DS-1 format

Try Rubber Chicken Software http://www.chickensys.com/ They are 
working on this for Release 2 of Translator, but I'm not sure they can 
ever support the Emax and Emax II as they were never able to get the 
format from E-mu and when I provided them with the source code for 
EMX I don't think it was very helpful enough. Of course, my solution is 
simple. I have both an Emax II and an ESi-32 turbo so I can import 
everything (except sequences and arppeggiator settings) into the ESi 
then use Translator release 1 from there. Of course, I have no reason 
to do this :/



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>
>But in order to create a file/diskette conversion program someone 
>would have to find out the file format E-mu used which is the part they 
>won't release.
>



what parts _will_ they release ?

(or have they released , should i say..)


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The person who wrote EMX was able to get from an "anonymous" E-
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how Emax can copy just bank data or just the OS onto a DS/DD disk. 

Originally EMX was nothing more than a disk image utility imaging the 
entire disk making huge files (considering at best we had 14.4 
modems at the time). 

> >But in order to create a file/diskette conversion program someone 
> >would have to find out the file format E-mu used which is the part they
> >won't release.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> what parts _will_ they release ?
> 
> (or have they released , should i say..)


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At 04:22 PM 5/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>OK I've been so busy living I haven't taken the time to create any music
>>lately and I'd like that to end. Anyone here in my new locality of San
>>Diego County interested in perhaps making some music and taking
>>over the world?
>
>Sorry, but my world domination plans are based over here in Connecticut.
>After I have all of Southern New England ground under my boot heel, next
>comes the total subjugation of the Mid-Hudson Valley.  Then the enslavement
>of the Big Apple itself.
>
>All in all, it should be a busy month.
>
And i have all Europe to conquer, starting out with Scandinavia...

Rubber Chicken Software has asked me if it's possible to get a HD 
image on CD-Rom for them to try and (my guess) reverse engineer the 
file format for use with Translator.Any of you out there have the ability 
to do this? I don't have a CD writer. I know there are some programs 
out there that can make an image of the drive regardless of it's format.


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Wouldn't it be easier to grab an off-the-shelf Emu CDROM and start from that?

At 12:59 PM 5/30/00 -0700, you wrote:

>Rubber Chicken Software has asked me if it's possible to get a HD 
>image on CD-Rom for them to try and (my guess) reverse engineer the 
>file format for use with Translator.Any of you out there have the ability 
>to do this? I don't have a CD writer. I know there are some programs 
>out there that can make an image of the drive regardless of it's format.
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Actually now they are saying a Zipdisk would be the best thing for 
them. Can anyone supply one?

> Wouldn't it be easier to grab an off-the-shelf Emu CDROM and start from
> that?
> 
> At 12:59 PM 5/30/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Rubber Chicken Software has asked me if it's possible to get a HD 
> >image on CD-Rom for them to try and (my guess) reverse engineer the file
> >format for use with Translator.Any of you out there have the ability to
> >do this? I don't have a CD writer. I know there are some programs out
> >there that can make an image of the drive regardless of it's format.


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It might be easier just to burn a copy of one of the Emax 2 CD's.
Would that work RCS?

Bob

John Joseph Silveria II wrote:

> 
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> image on CD-Rom for them to try and (my guess) reverse engineer the
> file format for use with Translator.Any of you out there have the ability
> to do this? I don't have a CD writer. I know there are some programs
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