Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Very quickly:

A footnote to a post earlier mentioning the historically interesting (IMO) E-Mu web grabs at the Way Back Machine (archive.org).  Take a minute and try this: https://web.archive.org/web/19961104010536/http://www.emu.com:80/ . It's an archived site from 1996. Then click on the News Flash.

If you only have 20 seconds, here's the direct link: https://web.archive.org/web/19961104022905/http://www.emu.com:80/news_flash.html .

Again, JMO, but I think these articles are tremendously interesting from a historical perspective--even if the jpgs were not grabbed. For other users and fans of E-Mu legacy gear, maybe there are other nuggets of gold in those archived site grabs.

Steve

Footnote about finding stuff at the Way Back Machine:  It is hit-or-miss!!!!!!

For gear docs, I did find a PX7 Rev A pdf at one archived web grab, but the archives for that same "crawl" date had at least 5 dead ends for other docs. (I was not going to try them all!)

https://web.archive.org/web/20040224073008/http://www.emu.com:80/support/files/storage/PX7%20OpMan.pdf

For product information and details about prices on certain dates (as well as news for new releases), Many of the links I tried had quite a bit of detail. For example, one page for the 1820M seems to have full details, including audio files (mp3) to demonstrate PatchMix based FX.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060516140245/http://www.emu.com:80/products/product.asp?category=506&subcategory=492&product=9871

One archived site had a zipped file for the Classic EOS manual, but that was only one out of about 3 or 4 I tried for that "crawl."

Desktop Instruments up to Emulator X2 and Proteus X2 (descriptive content): https://web.archive.org/web/20060503022409/http://www.emu.com:80/products/category.asp?category=501 At least one of those products has links to an archived video tutorial on the 'Twistaloop" feature in later versions of Emulator X [X2 and X3, I believe].  Once I found that, I searched and found someone had uploaded it to YouTube in 2014.  There might be other hidden gems that have not yet been shared more widely.

JMO: If you are looking for docs for specific gear, don't. I think it would be a waste of time searching the WBM--like looking for a specific unlabelled CD in a mountain of discarded plastic platters.  However, If you want info about products and what the official word was on certain dates (features and other details, listed prices, etc.) trips down memory lane via the WBM might yield some interesting content. There were also some links to artist interviews.

BTW, some document selector web interfaces have the agree/disagree response thing (saying you won't reverse engineer than manual an such) and some don't.  I think the ones where I found actual docs did not have the wait-for-user-reply block.

OH--I did find a Mac version of E-Loader 1.1, though I have no way to know if it works. Reports over the years have varied as to what version of Mac OS it works on.

Steve