send help,.. EOS4.1 to 4.62 update on E-synth
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:23 amHello, this is my first post and my first week with a craigslist E-synth. NOT AN ULTRA. Yes, I have 2m of native flash.
Some background: I use wintelXP sp3. I'm old. I'm frustrated. I'm mostly a guitar player.
I can't make the 4.62 floppy. Bummer. I dl 462prep.zip from Emu support and run c_flashp.exe from the CMD window to a formatted 1.44m floppy. Both the image and the exe file are unzipped to the root directory. I get "ERROR #9", whatever that is. I format a floppy on the e-synth put it in the pc run the image file and get ERROR #1. I make a 1.72m floppy with something called "smartformat" which lets you make a slightly larger sized floppy. That does't work either, I forget why. I try to copy the 462eos.exe file to the oversized floppy. Does about 80% and say's, "cannot find requested sector" or something to that effect. I download the 462prep again thinking it was a corrupt file on my end but it's not. No success. I email emu support and ask them to mail me a floppy. We'll see. It could happen, right?
I'm hoping the new OS will correct some problems with the Alpha wheel and the main enter button. (it's not labled that but it's the one you push all the time to get anything done- I've forgotten what it's called- the OK button?). Pushing this one sometimes doesn't do anything or else it twitches ahead two or three options, Merging when you pushed Load or going into a midi page etc. The wheel skips ahead a few patches if you move it one notch and the ordinal arrow buttons act like they're drunk too so we'll see if things improve when you tell me how to master this 4.62 thing.
I have the top off now as I've just installed an 8gig SSD flash/scsi drive. I should have gotten the one that goes in the floppy bay if anyone's thinking about this. I'm going to dust the insides out and reseat the connectors if I get time this week.
Included was an external scsi cdrom that I use to load akai cd's. I'd love to trade by snail mail if anyone's interested. I don't know if the uploading thing that was discussed here ever panned out. I also wasted money on new memory before I figured out that you have to disable the factory patches to use what's installed. I could have swore I checked this but guess what? Oh well, single cell,..
The factory patches sucked horribly until I figured out it was the fx that was making all the white noise/garbage sound at the release of each sound. Is my unit crap or is this a fashionable feature of this brand for some reason? It's retro to have a fizzing sound as part of the patch? After disabling the fx and unloading the factory patches at startup I can now load oddles of akai sounds or emu discs in the 128m memory. What a blast! It sounds way better than the AbletonLive8 sampler through my $500 soundcard. Not sure why. The emu discs are amazing. The 4 slider-mod things are great too. There was a library of about 10 discs included. I still have to go through most of them. It's a weird looking thing, maybe I'll paint it and add some glitter. Couldn't hurt. I hope I can straighten it out. I like having 76 keys, going back to the JunoG is a drag.
Well, if anyone else has passed this cruel test and knows how to make the EOS floppy on a pc, or has a known-to-be-good 462 file or can image the file from their system or want's to swap discs you can mail me at mrmasondjp, my carrier is yahoo.com. Thank you for your time and good night, pm.
Some background: I use wintelXP sp3. I'm old. I'm frustrated. I'm mostly a guitar player.
I can't make the 4.62 floppy. Bummer. I dl 462prep.zip from Emu support and run c_flashp.exe from the CMD window to a formatted 1.44m floppy. Both the image and the exe file are unzipped to the root directory. I get "ERROR #9", whatever that is. I format a floppy on the e-synth put it in the pc run the image file and get ERROR #1. I make a 1.72m floppy with something called "smartformat" which lets you make a slightly larger sized floppy. That does't work either, I forget why. I try to copy the 462eos.exe file to the oversized floppy. Does about 80% and say's, "cannot find requested sector" or something to that effect. I download the 462prep again thinking it was a corrupt file on my end but it's not. No success. I email emu support and ask them to mail me a floppy. We'll see. It could happen, right?
I'm hoping the new OS will correct some problems with the Alpha wheel and the main enter button. (it's not labled that but it's the one you push all the time to get anything done- I've forgotten what it's called- the OK button?). Pushing this one sometimes doesn't do anything or else it twitches ahead two or three options, Merging when you pushed Load or going into a midi page etc. The wheel skips ahead a few patches if you move it one notch and the ordinal arrow buttons act like they're drunk too so we'll see if things improve when you tell me how to master this 4.62 thing.
I have the top off now as I've just installed an 8gig SSD flash/scsi drive. I should have gotten the one that goes in the floppy bay if anyone's thinking about this. I'm going to dust the insides out and reseat the connectors if I get time this week.
Included was an external scsi cdrom that I use to load akai cd's. I'd love to trade by snail mail if anyone's interested. I don't know if the uploading thing that was discussed here ever panned out. I also wasted money on new memory before I figured out that you have to disable the factory patches to use what's installed. I could have swore I checked this but guess what? Oh well, single cell,..
The factory patches sucked horribly until I figured out it was the fx that was making all the white noise/garbage sound at the release of each sound. Is my unit crap or is this a fashionable feature of this brand for some reason? It's retro to have a fizzing sound as part of the patch? After disabling the fx and unloading the factory patches at startup I can now load oddles of akai sounds or emu discs in the 128m memory. What a blast! It sounds way better than the AbletonLive8 sampler through my $500 soundcard. Not sure why. The emu discs are amazing. The 4 slider-mod things are great too. There was a library of about 10 discs included. I still have to go through most of them. It's a weird looking thing, maybe I'll paint it and add some glitter. Couldn't hurt. I hope I can straighten it out. I like having 76 keys, going back to the JunoG is a drag.
Well, if anyone else has passed this cruel test and knows how to make the EOS floppy on a pc, or has a known-to-be-good 462 file or can image the file from their system or want's to swap discs you can mail me at mrmasondjp, my carrier is yahoo.com. Thank you for your time and good night, pm.