Emax

On 10 Feb 2004 at 17:59, christopher degraff spoke unto me:

> So, uhhh, how do I terminate the chain? Like, to get access to both the
> internal hd and external scsi at the same time instead of just separately?? 

I've honestly never seen an external hard drive, but it has to be one of these solutions;

My external Syquest drives came with a termination plug that goes over the unused 
SCSI socket on the back of the unit. In my chain the Emax II has an internal 500Mb hard 
drive (which is jumpered to terminate I believe) and the external SCSI jack is plugged 
into a Syquest EZ-135. On the leftover jack on the back of the EZ-135 I have a SCSI 
Terminator on it. So if your external drive has 2 SCSI ports on it for chaining you need to 
put a termination plug on one, they can be found on ebay for cheap seach for SCSI 
+terminator. The other solution would be if an external hard drive had jumpers like an 
internal drive does, then you would need to set the jumpers for termination.  

> Try this company for replacement LCD backlight: http://www.telesisgear.com
> though if I remember their prices might have seemed a little high. I thought
> Emulator Archive had some information on replacing LCD's as well. Yeah,
> actually on ebay right now there are some backlights for sale, specifically
> for the emax2 and others...WWW.BACKLIGHTS.CO.UK (23.99 i think that's
> usd...it's definitely not pounds..) >

yes, but remember it's 23.99 USD + shipping and possibly taxes and it has to be 
shipped from the UK. Though I imagine it's still cheaper than the $50 Telesis is going to 
charge.

> -myself I'm wondering if it's just that the rackmount
> hardware doesn't have the RT wheels programmed in
> except for midi...i'll try  again with the keyboard
> synth's original guts just to make sure it's not the
> ribbon (the one that leads to the wheels is keyed
> after all)

Go under Master | 9/Special | 5/MIDI Analyzer and see if it is even receiving the MIDI 
signal for the wheel. Upon moving the wheel it should report Controller 1 and the value 
should move up and down in correspondence the wheel on your controller. If not could 
there be a chance that your right wheel isn't sending out Controller 1 signals some 
keybopard allow you to assign different CC numbers to the wheels?  

If you have a bank that has the RT Wheel assigned to something it should work whether 
it's loaded into a rack or a keyboard version. I just loaded the 4M Pop Composer factory 
bank into my Emax II rack, I use an SY77 as a controller and both the pitch bend and 
the Mod 1 wheel work as well as the 2 footswitches. I've never edited this bank.

The assignments are: 1:1 2:4 3:0 4:0 5:0 6:0 7:3 8:6 Also remember that you not only 
have to assign what each wheel is going to control you have to set-up the range for the 
process they are controlling, like the Pitch Bend range( under Preset Definition) or the 
LFO rate which is assigned under Dynamic Processing.

> one of my main concerns is still the power supply: is
> the original problem which blew the fuse internal or
> external...and did it affect anything permanently? How
> can I test this...I understand there is a technical
> manual fro the emax2 but the emulator archive link is
> out of date (last time i checked)...

Contact Rob at Emulator Archive directly you are going to need the service manual and 
a volt meter, but do not attempt this if you are not completely comfortable with this kind 
of service.

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