Emax

At 02:37 PM 8/13/2011, you wrote:

>Northstar confirmed there are no copy protection on their MAX1-2-3 CD's.
>They say, the problem is that i don't have a compatible CDrom for the Emax II.

>But:
>-My EIIIXP can import the original Elements of Sound EMAX CD, but 
>fails to import the Northstar CDs
>-3 macs (Toast, Disk util) and 1 pc (Nero, Isobuster) claimed that 
>the discs have read errors on them. Most of the time they can't even 
>access the disks: it starts to spin up, then spin down, and doing it 
>in an infinite circle.
>I am pretty sure the discs are not OK.
>BTW i would buy an EMAX compatibly CD-Rom,but it is almost 
>impossible. I am sure, that even if i did so, it would not read those disc.
>I wish they were generous and sent me the image files via net. After 
>all, these CDs are expensive!

Are there scratches on your CD? Any indication of damage?

Translator www.chickensys.com can make images (we call them Virtual 
Drives) and is very forgiving with disk read errors. Most "imagers" 
stop and abort when they find an error and don't allow you to make 
the whole image, even though there is valid data further downstream 
on the disk. Translator was designed to get as much as it can off the 
disk. With sampler CD's, mot of the disk space is filled with audio 
info, so any errors there manifest themselves as glitches in the 
audio, which can be repaired or covered over.

Emu CD's really only need the first 512 bytes of the disk to make it 
valid. The FAT comes next, then the bank directory is about 4000 
bytes into the disk and doesn't take that much space. So you really 
have to wipe out that area to make the disk unreadable.

The older versions of Translator had a Emu Disk Repairer of sorts 
that would look through a disk even though the boot sectors and/or 
Bank directory and find Banks throughout the disk and export them 
out. I'm fairly sure it worked on E3/ESi/EOS but not Emax.

Anyway, if you are interested in that, let me know. Or regarding the 
Phase III CD, I can perhaps repair it for you. Contact me at support 
_AT_ chickensys.com.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User