Emax

Thank you for the response. I understand the details of development but maybe it's worth asking him for this feature.

Can you please share some more specific details as to how to convert these using your EMXP software?

For the sake of flexibility I believe theEM1 format will be my primary format

-RVK

> On Jun 22, 2014, at 1:17 PM, "esynthesist@... [emax]" <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> The EM1 and EB1 file layout are only slightly different, so it should be possible for the HxC software to take EB1 files as input format as well (besides EM1).
> But that's up to the software developer of HxC (Jean-Francois) - I can contact him about this and provide him with the layout specs but I'm not sure he will add the EB1 format to the HxC software. He tries to keep some distance from the file system specific problems related to any of the computers or samplers supported by the HxC, and I understand and fully support this attitude. The EM1 file format is (except for the additional first bytes) exactly the same as the floppy disk file format, while the EB1 file format must be converted/re-arranged before it can be written to floppy disk. That's why EM1 and EM2 are the preferred and only input format for the HxC.
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> For EMAX-II files (EM2, EB2) the problems are even bigger, because one EB2 file can cover multiple EM2 files, and a floppy disk or HFE file can contain only one EM2 file. So the HxC software should request the user for an additional parameter: the index number of the disk within the EB2 file. I'm sure that feature will never make it in the HxC software :-)
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> Perhaps a final remark: while the previous EMXP versions considered the EB1 file format "more important" than the EM1 file format (offering more features for EB1 files than for EM1 files), the newest version 3.00 doesn't really care are anymore - it can copy/convert EM1 files in the same way as EB1 files, and samples from EM1 files can be converted to WAV just like samples from EB1 files. So as an alternative you *could* rely on EM1 files only and build up your sound bank library in EM1 format instead of EB1 format. Converting all of your current EB1 files into EM1 format can be done in one batch operation by EMXP.
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