emusonacid!

I am using an E5000 ultra and saving all my Bank data and samples etc. to a SCSI ZIP drive which I have chained to the SCSI card of my PC. I would like to be able to burn the data stored on my ZIP disks to CDs but although the computer recognises the ZIP drive it can't read the Emu formated data. Does anyone know of a way (possibly an application) that will allow the PC to read my ZIP disks so I can backup to CD???

what you need is chicken sys translator, it lets you access the emu drives on the scsi. Then you can make a virtual cd image on the pc drive and copy songs from the emu drive over. Once you are done you need something that can burn the raw image to cd. I use the dos tools free from goldenhawk for this job (lets you raw burn the file to cd) Once thats done the resluting cd is in emu format and you can read it direct on the sampler if you have a cdrom installed

one note, the version of translator i have is buggy with the cdimage, if you copy more than 16 songs per directory it crashes. the only way round this i found was to make more directorys and never put more than 16 songs in one of them

hope this helps

oh and :) its probably possible to fit a few of the zips per cd

http://studio-central.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=39

check this great thread (and the article in hte first post of course) at Tweaks forum

Thanx heaps for the tips! Much appreciated.

i think you can actually hook up a cd burner via scsi, and burn your samples straight to that. you would have to go to the emu website to make sure, they are kind of ambigous about it, but i think it would work, if you have the money to spend.

This makes me wonder....
Since a zip drive is essentially a removable harddrive, can you burn emu cds off a zip drive? The only stuff ive seen on it says scsi harddrive, but that'd probably work right?

if you use chicken sys translator it doent matter what the source is as long as you can read it and copy the banks over :)

hi,
i have a scsi plextor cdrw. How would I burn straight to cd using the emu?

thanks

i think is should work just like the zip drives. all you should have to do is hook it up via scsi and then the emu should detect it, if it reconize the brand you have, or whatever... actually i don't think that manufacure matters too much, i don't think my emu knows i have a glyph hooked up, but it does know i have a cd rom there though.

i would just hook it up and see what happens, use cd r's though, since they tend to be more reliable... from what i hear...

yes I have been using my plextor writer to load samples all the time into the sampler but you aren't able to write samples back to the cdr. I have tried many a times and it just doesn't work. I think it may be a software thing as the sampler won't allow "drag and drop" type saving to a cdr. If there is a way or anyone has an idea please do let me know!

hi mate.

I have loaded emu and akai samples with no problems at all. I find it very tedious and time consuming searching and loading off sample cd's through the sampler itself so I now use CDXtract to browse through the samples (a hellofalot quicker). I think just export the ones I want down to a wav file so I can load in an editor and transfer that way right int he sampler. No quality loss at all and as the slogan for the program states... lets you spend more time making music. Not searching for samples.

hi mate.

I have loaded emu and akai samples with no problems at all. I find it very tedious and time consuming searching and loading off sample cd's through the sampler itself so I now use CDXtract to browse through the samples (a hellofalot quicker). I think just export the ones I want down to a wav file so I can load in an editor and transfer that way right int he sampler. No quality loss at all and as the slogan for the program states... lets you spend more time making music. Not searching for samples.

yea i know.. tell me about... gay isn't it? If they can load off floppy they should have included whatever code is involved in the EOS to pertain to the CDrom as well..

oh well... emu is great and has some nice quality but lack a lot in terms of features that should have and could have been a possibility. They don't listen much to their customers input.