emusonacid! legacy

I am having serious difficulty figuring out how to transfer samples from my new Mac to my EMU, it's difficult even finding a program that would do it properly (at least some form of freeware).

On top of that, the new MacBooks only have an ExpressCard 3/4 slot, so I needed a PCMCIA to Expresscard 3/4 adapter, which I found @

www.duel-systemsadapters.com.

Needless to say, the thing did not work properly.. so I'm gonna get a new one to see if that makes a difference,.

Otherwise, what the heck are my options? USB to SCSI adapters? What do you think of those?

Or am I left with SMIDI transfers?!?!?

Or, you know actually sampling so you get the sound of the ad/da conversion. With it being a sampler and all.

for ESI 4000 I'd suggest maybe VMWare Fusion, Win98SE and progs like Wavesurgeon or Recycle 2.1 or Soundforge.

It might be feasible to use USB scsi under a hosted VM OS rather than trying to get Mac OS X to do it. Seems like USB SCSI can only handle 1 devices at a time btw in some rare circumstances.

M

I used to do this in the past with my ESI 32 before moving to Ultras (much easier and backwards compatible btw).

Zip drives for disk transfer (SCSI on EMU)

Win98SE/XP - ESI-WIN for SCSI transfers (dodgy freeware that was good under 98 but never finished on XP properly, still works tho).

CD Extract

Translator Free.

Of course this was on a PC. Maybe bootcamp on Mac OS or VMWare......good luck!

M

rhythmsickness wrote:Or, you know actually sampling so you get the sound of the ad/da conversion. With it being a sampler and all.

Ugh. I so don't want to go that route.. but yeah, ok, you're right, and yes I knew that.

I have an Apogee Mini-Me, there's really no reason to sample into the EMU.

Thanks for the other responses, btw.

DJ Broadband wrote:

rhythmsickness wrote:Or, you know actually sampling so you get the sound of the ad/da conversion. With it being a sampler and all.

Ugh. I so don't want to go that route.. but yeah, ok, you're right, and yes I knew that.

I have an Apogee Mini-Me, there's really no reason to sample into the EMU.

There is. The AD (and DA as well) converters give the EMU a specific sound. If you can't hear the difference between the analog and the digital outs, then you don't need that specific sound yet (and one day you might or you'll be happy without it, depends entirely on what you're doing.)

altus wrote:

DJ Broadband wrote:

rhythmsickness wrote:Or, you know actually sampling so you get the sound of the ad/da conversion. With it being a sampler and all.

Ugh. I so don't want to go that route.. but yeah, ok, you're right, and yes I knew that.

I have an Apogee Mini-Me, there's really no reason to sample into the EMU.

There is. The AD (and DA as well) converters give the EMU a specific sound. If you can't hear the difference between the analog and the digital outs, then you don't need that specific sound yet (and one day you might or you'll be happy without it, depends entirely on what you're doing.)

to be honest if you aren't using the sampler for the characteristics of its sound, then you might as well simply be using a software sampler. If you aren't after the particular sound, then there are much more fluid ways of doing things that dont require you to mess about with 20 year old tech.