Yahoo Groups archive

Emax

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 23:23 UTC

Message

Re: EMAX I floppy CRC ERROR!

2007-07-12 by Karl M

Thanks Dave, that makes sense, not loading OS or ALL presets from the
bad disk, just lifting one preset at a time.  I'll follow your
instructions to the letter.  Wish me luck.

Was it out of line to offer to buy that specific disk from someone on
this list??

Karl


> 
>     1. Power up the Emax with the 'system disk' loaded in the disk
drive or use a sample disk with the OS installed on the disk.
>     2. Get a fresh disk and format it using your Emax.
>     3. While the formatted disk is in the drive, or any other disk
is in the drive
>         with the OS on it, hit the "preset management" button.
>     4. Stick the disk in the drive with the sound you desire, then
press 1# 
>         to load a preset. You must do it in that order.
>         Hit the "preset management" button, then stick in the disk
with the desired
>         samples. You won't be able to load the entire disk because
of the
>         error.
>     5. Load one preset at a time. If you can't load one preset, try
another 'till 
>         loaded all the presets off the disk in memory.
>     6. Once you've finished loading samples in memory of the Emax,
>         save all the presets you have memory to the newly formatted
disk, you've
>         formatted earlier.
>     7. You should now be able to load the new disk with the samples
you've
>         loaded from the old disk.
>

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.