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These are the formats discussed until now:
- SoundDesigner: this is a fileformat for files containing only sample information, used by some SoundDesigner software versions. It is one of the "more compatible" SoundDesigner formats for sample/audio interchange between various SoundDesigner sofware packages. But no preset or voice parameter information is available in these files.
- SoundDesigner for EII: this is a fileformat for files containing full Emulator II banks. So all sample info, preset info, sequencer info and so on is stored in these files. But these files are unique for use with the EII and are (as far as I know) only supported by the SoundDesigner for EII variant.
- CDS3: is a diskformat used on CDROMs by OMI/Northstar in the eighties. It's like a FAT system, but then different :-) CDS3 disks contain full Emax or Emulator II soundbanks. The fileformat of the individual banks stored on a CDS3 cdrom is very comparable with the SoundDesigner for EII fileformat. 

Note that the SoundDesigner for EII fileformat is in fact just a dump of the memory of the Emulator II.

All EII soundbanks on a CDS3 cdrom can be extracted to individual SoundDesigner for EII files. I have a small utility for that, but I didn't make it public available yet because it's so basic (not robust let's say) that I expect too many support questions if I simply make it available to everyone. I'm planning to include native CDS3 support in EMXP in the near future though. Perhaps I will also slightly improve the small utility in order to make it asap available for download - yes, why wouldn't I do that :-)

The (extracted) SoundDesigner for EII files can be used on a Mac with SoundDesigner for EII, or can be translated to some other filelayouts (like SoundFont2) with e.g. EMXP. The next version of EMXP will also allow to upload/download these files directly between Windows PC and Emulator II, but a special USB/RS422 adapter will be required.

///E-Synthesist
 

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "sugawolf_jeezy" <captainjc@...> wrote:
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> > Correct - Doug has both the SD and CDS3 banks, but not the SD for EII  
> > banks.
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> I guess I'm getting a little lost in these file formats. So I gather that CDS3 is the format used in the CD Rom drive that OMI produced. These must contain all the bank/preset info right? There is no way to convert them?
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