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Hi Rob,
Thanks for the reply. 
I'm not sure if it's possible, but how difficult would
it be to convert a CDrom drive to work with an RS-422
port? I realize OMI has long discontinued their drive.
Is it just a case of  making the appropriate cable? Or
is some sort of software needed? If anyone has the
knowledge to do this--what an opportunity! 
Thanks,
Mike

--- Rob Keeble <rob@...> wrote:
> Hi,
> The EII sample CDROM's work in a CDROM player
> connected directly to the EII
> over RS422. They cannot be read directly by a Mac or
> PC, as they are in EII
> file format. The only CDROM drives that will work
> with the EII were made by
> OMI and work over RS422 - they are long since
> obsolete and many have died.
> You can load samples from the OMI CDROM into the EII
> and save the bank to
> diskette. Then you can power off and connect up the
> Mac running SD for EII
> to the EII RS422, power on, load the sample and
> download the sample to the
> Mac using SD for EII. You may also be able to get
> the Mac, CDROM player and
> EII working on one RS422 connection, as the CDS3 has
> RS422 passthrough I
> think. You should never unplug the RS422 connection
> whilst the EII is
> powered up - or you may blow the driver chips.
> 
> Either way its a long process to migrate the OMI
> samples from CDROM into SD
> for EII. We have about 800 samples done, and the
> remaining FX samples are
> not really worth the effort. We don't distribute
> these samples as OMI still
> exist as QUpArts - so there is a copyright issue.
> QUparts wanted too much
> money for the distribution rights, so we cannot
> offer them commercially.
> 
> We have numerous other EII libraries including the
> E-mu factory library, FMS
> and Burmer Collection.
> 
> OMI still sell the original EII CDROM's as well as
> the same samples in SD
> format for the Mac (they will read into a Mac CDROM
> drive!) - they can be
> contacted at www.quparts.com
> 
> Regards
> Rob
> The Emulator Archive
> www.emulatorarchive.com
> 
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> If I may ask you some advice...I'm also trying to
> download the Cd rom for the EII into my Sound
> Designer
> program, and the program works great on it's own,
> however I can't get the Cdrom drive to be recognized
> by the computer, let alone the program.
> I am using a stand alone apple 300 Cdrom connected
> to
> an MacII SE. (via the smaller SCSI port)
> Do I need a software driver for this thing? Anyone
> who
> has a working setup please help!!
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> --- snapshotsfr <snapshotsfr@...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 


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