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If you don't have a Mac/RS422, the only way to get soundbanks into 
the EII is by floppy disk.
And until now, no one succeeded in reading or writing EII disks with 
a PC.
(see also message http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emulatorII-
list/message/1242)

By the way, if I would have a 3.5 drive in my EII, I would probably 
be investigating if it's really impossible.
But I don't... my 5.25 drives are in perfect condition and Route66 
didn't answer my questions for their drive a year ago.
And my PCs carrying a 5.25 drive are too old to do any software 
development experiments on (I'm not going to use those old dos C-
compilers anymore :-)

Some people are trying to get the diskread/write work on a PC, but 
until now I haven't heard of any success.

So really: you should buy a 20 dollar Mac Classic and a ?? dollar 
RS422 board for your EII (see somewhere else on this group).

///E-Synthesist

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "mborish_2000" 
<mborish_2000@...> wrote:
>
> I'm very interested in acquiring more factory sounds for my EII.  I 
> do not have the Mac SDII setup or the RS422 board for that matter.  
> I have a 5.25 floppy in drive one and a 3.5 floppy from route 66 in 
> drive two.  How can I get more sounds for this thing?  I would 
> prefer to have them on 3.5 DD disks, or, if there is a way that I 
> could buy the CD and then convert them to DD disks? If I could do 
it 
> with Windows XP, that would be a grand slam.  I'm very open to 
> creative ideas.
> 
> -Mike  
> 
> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" 
> <esynthesist@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I think I succeeded in reverse engineering the DPX disk layout for
> > Emulator II soundbanks.
> > 
> > In the files section of 
> >     http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/oberheim_dpx1/
> > you can find a small Windows XP commandline tool called E2DPX.
> > This software reads SoundDesigner for EII files and translates 
> them to
> > DPX diskimages. You can write these images to floppy disks using
> > DPXWRITE (also in that files section).
> > 
> > This tool could be useful for those not having an EmuII anymore 
to 
> > create EII disks for the DPX.
> > It's also a quick way to create DPX disks without having to start 
> your 
> > Mac & EmuII to create disks before being able to load them into 
> your 
> > DPX.
> > PS: you can buy a CD with many EII banks on 
> www.emulatorarchive.com !
> > 
> > I tested this tool with 15 Emu factory and OMI banks... it seems 
to
> > work.
> > 
> > Have fun !
> > 
> > ///E-Synthesist
> >
>