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Hi group,

I have a large collection of EII floppies and have been wondering how to
preserve these sounds.  I haven't been able to get Sound Designer running
(due to problems with the CD-ROM drive in my old Performa).  So I thought
I'd recount my experience with esynthesist's EMXP in case anyone on the list
would find it useful or interesting.

Fortunately I have SD files for all these banks on disc. I used  the MacDisk
free version (as Kris advises in the manual) to read the SD files and copy
them to my PC (running XP) in the EMXP images folder.  At first EMXP didn't
recognize them, until I added ".EII" to each filename, which is a bit
tedious, but after that it worked fine.  EMXP shows a list of samples in
each bank and you export them as .wav files  to the .wav folder.  Then burn
the contents of that folder to CD-ROM, and back to the (modern) Mac, to drag
and drop the .wav files into the Kontakt mapping editor.

It works great!  To me it seems like the sounds are even better in Kontakt
than coming from the EII, if such a thing is possible.  Of course the
mapping and loops from the banks are not preserved, so to recreate the more
complicated ones would be time-consuming, and maybe not worth it.  If a
future version of EMXP could have bank export with maps and loops as
soundfonts, as Kris mentions, well, that would be *tha bomb*!

Huge thanks to Kris for making this technology available!
---Rick


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