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Cdxtract emu5/6/2023 ![]() Note: It may be necessary to scroll up in the left window to make other folders/drives visible first. In Translator, select all the E4B files in the right window and drag them to the mounted E-mu format virtual drive in the left window. The E4B files should appear in the right window. In Translator, browse to the folder containing the E4B files using the left window. In Translator, choose the menu item “Tools/Register Items/Virtual Drives/Single” and browse to the newly created CD img file. Name the img file something appropriate like “my_EOS_CD.img” or similar. A smaller size can be manually entered if the total size of the banks is smaller than 650MB, but there’s not much point with large modern hard drives and ZIP/RAR compression schemes. Choose “E-mu” as the image type, and pick CD-ROM (650MB). In Translator, choose the menu item “Tools/Create Virtual Drive/New”. Hit to open the “Format Options” window, and select the “Emu” tab. Note: A standard (non-FAT) EOS sampler cannot be used for this as its drive is in a proprietary format typically unreadable by computers. If using Emulator X3 then “File/Export” the banks as E4B format files, or if using a FAT-compatible sampler then connect its drive to the computer and copy the E4B files over. A model without FAT support can be used to create the banks initially, but will ultimately need to be loaded into a sampler with FAT support for transfer anyway. You may also find that artifacts such as aliasing and noise may be more apparent on directly converted samples - this was always the case when playing S900 samples on an S1000.Why can’t you just be FAT like your brothers?!Ĭreate (or load) the custom banks using Emulator X3 or a FAT-compatible EOS sampler. wav files.Īs many will tell you - if you want to retain the unique character of the EII samples then really you need to sample the sampler! Converting the EII sounds to 16 bit wav will ultimately work but at least some of the magic will be lost. Once this link is up and running the user will also be able to convert the transferred samples to. I am working with the man behind EMXP on this one. One aim of our project is to bring together the EII factory library and at least the 1st two OMI CDs in SD1 format for transfer to the native sampler. I am an EII owner and, as some already know, currently designing an interface dongle to connect the EII to a modern PC via USB called EMXfer. You won't get the marcato strings, the shak, the mellotron like choir etc. Madtheory wrote:That's the EIIIx library, I know it well, it's excellent. The whole EII factory library, with Northstar and OMI, would probably only occupy 100 Megs, not 1.5 Gigs!īelieve me, EMUxp and the disc images is the only way, apart from buying an EII and an old Mac with sound designer, the serial cable, and making sure the EII has the right firmware etc. Probably the best sub 1 Meg choir ever put together. They did a very nice job, it has a character all its own. For example, you get Marcato strings, but they don't have that classic sheen that the EII version has.Īctually, the EII choir is sampled off the Mellotron master tapes, sounds to me like they mixed male and female tapes to have a full choir sound, and the edited out the mistakes. But these sound VERY different to the originally supplied EII factory library. What you do get is newly sampled expanded versions of SOME of the original sounds, sampled digitally off the Sony PCM F1 tapes used in the original sessions. That's the EIIIx library, I know it well, it's excellent.
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