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On Mar 17, 2013, at 4:52 AM, geri.echue wrote:
Thanks for your reply, you said I could recalibrate the machine, how would I do this?
Thanks,
Geri
--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:
>
> The SE update disk updates an 93C06 EEPROM with a couple of bits that
> ENABLE the SE functionality.
>
> It doesn't update the boot EPROM firmware or change the menus, in of
> itself.
> Then there is the OS that is on the SE update disk.
> This adds the SE functionality to the menus.
>
> Where you are booting from a NON-SE disk, the SE enable is still in this
> EEPROM, but you don't have any of the options in the OS...
>
> Where a unit doesn't have SE, booting from the disk will tell you it is
> updating the unit if it is a new disk.
>
> It is a once use disk in that once a unit is updated, you cannnot use the
> same disk to update another unit.
> From there, the disk is usable to boot and has a sound bank to explore the
> SE functions.
>
> I have found no negative effects from using a new SE update disk on a unit
> twice.... it would only rewrite the same bytes it already wrote- if
> anything.
>
> That is my experience / knowledge of it.
>
> Thx,
> Ted
>
>
> PS- The only other thing that may be of note, is it may be useful to
> recalibrate the machine booted from an SE capable OS disk and see if
> anything changes.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:41 PM, geri.echue <geri.echue@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > I own a standard emax 1 rackmount, not an SE or a HD. When I purchased the
> > machine it came with a number of floppy disks. Everything seemed to be
> > working fine until I entered an emax SE upgrade disk which had a label on
> > 'upgrade disc use once only'.
> > Since then, the sounds on certain disks have an added high frequency
> > hiss/white noise on top of them.
> > Also when I try and sample any audio into it, the same added hiss occurs
> > on top of my audio.
> >
> > Since then, certain disks loaded with synths samples work without the
> > white noise but I've tried copying these onto a blank disk and deleting the
> > samples, and then recording audio into it, but it still adds the noise on
> > top of it.
> > I tried putting operating systems (that are compatible with the emax 1) on
> > an emax formatted disk using OMIFLOP and EMXP program. When some of these
> > are put in the emax, they load up but the display reads 'bad bank data'.
> > With other operating systems, they load up fine, but still the white noise
> > occurs on top of samples/ or when recording audio.
> > Someone told me, that if you can filter out the high frequency sound with
> > the low pass filter, which i can, means there is nothing wrong with the
> > machine, you've just corrupted your disks/samples.
> > What I think I've done, is that when I put the upgrade disk in, this put
> > the SE Upgrade on for the second time. As since then I can't record any
> > audio without white noise.
> >
> > This is driving me crazy, could anyone help?
> >
> > Geri
> >
> >
> >
>
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