Emax

I can confirm that the K2500 does not support reading any Emu disk formats. However, it will read various Akai, Roland and Ensoniq formats. 

/Tristan

Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 4:52:08 AM, you wrote:

>
If you can't fix the Emax, and want to translate your emax banks to 
one of your three other sampler units, I guess Chickensys Translator 
will be the only option... but you'll need a workaround: Translator 
does not fully support Emax-I (although this is not clearly mentioned 
on their website). So what you would have to do is use EMXP to 
translate the Emax banks to EIII banks, put them on an EIII 
cdrom/disk image, and use that as the import format for Translator 
which hopefully will convert them to ASRX, MV8000 or MPC...

If you only want to convert the actual sounds (without 
preset/voice/sample parameters) you can of course simply extract the 
Emax samples to WAV with EMXP and load these WAVs in your other 
sampler (I assume at least one of them supports WAV, the Roland for 
instance)

I would be really surprised if the K2500 would support Emax disks. 
Perhaps EIII, but Emax ???

Anyway the best option is to have a look into your Emax and solve the 
hardware problem !

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "reshad" <joty5@...> wrote:
>
> I recently bought the original Emax and it came with a large amount 
of
> sound discs. After using the unit, I realized that something is 
wrong
> with it. Whenever I play the keys or mess with the wheels, the 
sounds
> all come out glitchy and distorted. It's hard to describe, but I 
know
> the machine is not supposed to do this. The character of the sound
> changes horribly and sometimes the pitch wheel does not respond.
> 
> I have a few sampler/drum machines and I was wondering if it's
> possible to convert the Emax sounds to ASRX/MPC2000xl/RolandMV8000
> formats. Either one of these formats will do.
> 
> Someone told me that the Kurzweil K2500 will load up the emu discs,
> but I do not have the cash to spend on one of those nor another 
Emax.
> Chicken Systems offers a translator, but I would like to know how 
well
> it works before giving up $80 for it. 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated and thank you for your time.
>