emusonacid!

Hi everyone, great forum and a great resource.

I am a complete novice regarding Emu and have spent all my production years using Akai's. I have acquired an e6400 Ultra and was wondering if there was any way of importing Akai programs via floppy?

Still waiting for my Zip drive to arrive.

Many thanks in advance.

I don't think you can.
Only through SCSI devices you can import AKAI and Roland stuff.

AxiMaxi wrote:I don't think you can.
Only through SCSI devices you can import AKAI and Roland stuff.

I thought so, many thanks for the response.

Also can anyone please tell me, do I need a parallel or serial scsi zip drive? A friend is giving me one but I'm unsure what type it is.

SCSI zip drive.

Rascal Revenge wrote:SCSI zip drive.

I know it needs to be scsi but am I seem to remember with my Akai it had to be either serial or parallel.

There was no AKAI ever offering mass storage via Serial/Parallel, it's all SCSI there. The S 5000/6000 had an USB card option, and the latest Z4/Z8 had USB by factory if I'm correct, but I seem to remember these were not for storage - the latter mentioned both still on SCSI for that, so USB more for AKSYS editing, maybe sample transfer from/to a computer,aight ?

Ok, that's great. Thank you.

When talking about "serial" & "parallel" you might mean the type of socket.
The used sockets are:
- DB25
- Centronics 50-pin
- Cnetronics 50-pin half-pitch

The DB25-socket is looking like a serial or parallel socket that was used on the MACs. External ZIP-Drives (blue case) used this connector also, as well as the AKAI S3000-series and EMU EMAX-series.
The Centronics 50-pin socket can be found on the back of our E4-units.
The half-pitch version is used on SCSI-adapters for your computer.
All of this connectors are capable of running SCSI 1 (10 MB/s) and SCSI II (20 MB/s) protocol.