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Re: New EMXP version. Extended Emulator III/IIIX support...

2008-03-17 by wintermute0815

That would be awesome !!!! :)
Hope you can find a small timeslot (please ;))

Thanks for the proposal!

Cheers

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist"
<esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> EII DPX --> EII SD native is indeed very easy to program.
> You just need the decoding algorithm for the sound part, and some EII 
> addressing scheme knowledge :-)
> 
> Since I have those specs here, maybe if I find some time in between 
> my other activities, I'll make this little program for you. It will 
> only take a few hours to program, and I can add it to the DPXTOOLS 
> package (not to EMXP, that will take more than a few hours :-)
> 
> I just have to find a timeslot of a few hours... Mmmm...
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
> 
> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "wintermute0815" 
> <wintermute303@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > 
> > so this means that it would be possible to write a program to 
> convert 
> > dpx-1 to EII banks from Emulator DPX disks?
> > For me this would be perfect :).
> > 
> > Including DPX-1 in EMXP is a great idea. For me this is the missing 
> > link since I have a lot of DPX library disk.
> > I could try to make this conversion software but I have too little 
> > information about the formats. I am really interested in 
> information 
> > about the EII file format.
> > 
> > Good luck for your other projects!
> > Keep it up!
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" 
> > <esynthesist@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > About the DPX->EII. That's a tricky one... DPX doesn't have its 
> own 
> > > soundbankformat. It simply takes the original format (S900, 
> > P2000/2, 
> > > EII or Mirage) and changes it a little bit before writing it to 
> > > it's "own format".
> > > So to be able to convert any DPX disk to EII, I need the specs of 
> > all 
> > > supported DPX samplerformats. The S900 and EII I have, but I 
> don't 
> > > have the Mirage and P2000/2 specs (yet ? :-).
> > > Anyway, it's easy to recognize on any DPX disk what the original 
> > > format was, so it's definitely quite easy to make a DPX->EII tool 
> > for 
> > > both EII and S950 'DPX' disks.
> > > 
> > > By the way: the next version of OmniFlop will also support DPX 
> > > correctly (now it contains a major bug). This means that one of 
> the 
> > > next versions of EMXP will also support DPX directly, incl. 
> > > writing/readin the disks. EMXP uses OmniFlop as its default 
> floppy 
> > > access driver, as opposed to DPXTOOLS which relies on Simon 
> Owen's 
> > > great FDRAWCMD driver.
> > > Maybe I will then include the DPX-> translation in my EMXP 
> > > translation engine. The advantage of putting it in EMXP instead 
> of 
> > > using separate tools like DPXTOOLS is that all EMXP supported 
> > > samplerformats would immediately become candidate for conversion 
> > > to/from DPX.
> > > 
> > > The bad news is that I really don't have enough time anymore to 
> > work 
> > > on these things, the next months my agenda is completely filled 
> > with 
> > > other things, both personal and job related. So my EMXP/DPX 
> project 
> > > is put on hold (again) for a few months. That's why I had to 
> speed 
> > up 
> > > the release of v205 and why I hope this v205 is quite stable :-)
> > > 
> > > ///E-Synthesist
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "wintermute0815" 
> > > <wintermute303@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thank you so much for the work you're doing!
> > > > And thanks for the DPX1 reading tool!!!
> > > > 
> > > > Btw. is there anything planned to convert DPX1 back to EII?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks again!
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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