emusonacid! legacy

Hi all ,

I've finally (after hunting around for ages!) picked up a very nice E-Synth keyboard which has the max sample RAM and a 2.1GB internal SCSI hard disk. It's installed with EOS 4.62 and I have the printed manual for EOS 3 and the EOS 4.6 manual in PDF format.

I have a few newbie questions, which I can't seem to find answers for in the manuals:

1: When I boot up my E-Synth it loads a default bank from disk which is made up of 255 presets, but rather than being numbered "P001" to "P255", they're numbered "I000" to "I0255" - why is that and what does the "I" signify?

2: I've imported a couple of WAV files from floppy (why is it so sloooow?) and managed, by luck more than skill, to turn it into a preset. But I can't figure out how to (if it's possible) to save a single preset to the hard disk. It only seems to allow me to save an entire bank. I'm actually a bit confused with the whole business of getting samples -> presets -> banks...

3: When I load a new sample in, instead of loading it into "S000" it always seems to go into "S001". Same deal when creating a preset - starts at "P001" rather than "P000". Is this an EOS bug?

4: Is there any benefit to installing EOS 4.70? If I have problems, is it easy to 'downgrade' back to EOS 4.62?

5: Is there a decent FAQ somewhere that will better explain the steps required to create samples, presets and banks from scratch? The manuals seem reasonable, but it seems they expect a bti of prior EOS experience (which I have none!)

Any comments, help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Mike.

Hello and welcome Mike,

1. E-Synth comes with a board with samples burned on, so this 'I' are presets (data) refering to raw samples on this board (E-Synth Rom). Just adding this info: Enabled E-Synth Rom cuts available Sampling time in half (i.e. 64 MB), if you'd wanted 128 MB, turn off the Rom (I don't have E-Synth but sure you do this somewhere in the Master menu structure.)

2. Preset > Manage > Export exports a preset to HD, as a bank !! You can later either load the preset back from that saved bank or just load the bank using the Merge button, preset will load then to next free preset location.

3. That's normal. There is always one preset there ,even if you erase all memory, and that one is P000, therefore logically when you create a preset it creates P001. So P000 is there always for your first use as it?s empty. S000 is kinda 'reserved' for clipboard data, i.e. when you?re doin' copy/paste commands etc.

4. You have the latest OS for your E-Synth, so far the same as EOS 4.61 for Ultra samplers (except Beat Munger and another one I forgot). EOS 4.70 is for Ultra range only !

5. Well, spend some time with the instrument (learning by doing), I think the manual is great and scratch the keyboards a lil' bit here and there. My E4K came with a dedicated E4K manual, I'm very sure the E-Synth came with a special E-Synth manual also, that'll help you better. Now sadly E-mu has only common EOS manuals on their page.

Hey Rascal,

Thanks for the info!

I've currently got my E-synth stripped down to it's component parts (replacing the LCD backlight and a couple of the button microswicthes).

I can't wait to get it back together and get stuck into it!

Cheers,

Mike.