Emax

It's great to se that emxp still developing.

But there are 2 things that I would love to see in future versions of 
emxp.

1) sf2 conversion to emax format.
2) emxp develop to be an eos-link version to emax.

cheers/
niklas


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> Something I forgot to say: the newest version of EMXP supports the 
> Sound Designer for Emax file format now (version 2.06).
> But you still have to copy the files between your PC and your Mac 
in 
> order to transfer the banks to or from the Emax, just like with the 
> Sound Designer for EII files.
> 
> FYI: 
> 
> 1/ Sound Designer for Emax files are almost the same as EMX files, 
> but they contain additional bytes. EMXP allows direct copy between 
> EMX (.EMX), Sound Designer for Emax (.EMS), Emax Banks (.EB1) and 
> Emax floppy disks. But all other conversions are also possible in 
an 
> indirect way by using the .EB1 file as an intermediary.
> 
> 2/ One interesting technical note: Sound Designer for Emax files 
also 
> contain 8 bytes from the operating system part of the Emax memory. 
> This due to the communication protocol which requires data packet 
> sizes of 120 bytes and which results in "having to transfer" 8 
> additional bytes which do not belong to the sound bank itself. 
> Unfortunately these 8 bytes differ between the OS versions. I did 
> some tests though and it seems that the Emax doesn't care about 
these 
> bytes... So EMXP is filling them with blanks. I assume this is OK 
> since Digidesign must have the same problem if they wanted the 
saved 
> banks to be portable across many Emax versions. Anyway, if in the 
> future some instabilities may occur on the Emax, I will add an 
option 
> in EMXP which can replace the 8 bytes by the ones which belong to 
> your Emax OS. 
> 
> 3/ On the EMXP website (http://users.skynet.be/emxp) you can also 
> download the modified emax operating systems which make bank 
transfer 
> between the Mac and the Emax possible. Use is at own risk (but it 
> works fine in my setup).
> 
> 4/ I'm wondering how many Emax users actually have a copy of Sound 
> Designer for Emax. Perhaps Wayne and I are the only ones :-)
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
>