Yes it will work, but you will need the correct scsi lead to connect it to your e-mu. It does seem a bit overkill tho - I got a scsi cd-writer a few months back for £9 delivered. The multi-disc changer is unnecessary imho as it is easier and quicker to copy your sample cds to the harddisk and access them from there.
jamie8286 wrote:
when you use a cd rom drive providing you have eos 4.7 can you just upload wav files like it were from a floppy disk?
It can be done but not without a lot of effort. EOS cannot read the ISO filesystem used on cds, so you would have to find a way to burn the cd in either FAT or EOS format. To do this requires ghosting a partition a writing it the cd in raw format. I've done it in the past but it was a lot of bother. Better solutions would be to go down the removable drive route from the other thread, or get yourself a mc-disk scsi cf card reader, which is what I have done.
Another solution is a scsi drive that supports removeable media, such as a scsi zip drive or an MO drive. You can connect this to both your pc and your sampler and as long as you eject it between reads/writes then you should be ok.
I have recently got myself a spare E5000, and am going to experiment with an internal ATAPI zip drive and a scsi-ide convertor when I get time - I'll let you know how I get on.
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:35 pm
should have checked.
Thank you for the replies! I am so happy that this is an active board. I'd like to buy more of the old EMU samplers too. I am curious about the software sampler. It seems laptops are the new samplers?