Newbie E-Synth Questions...
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:00 am
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.
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.