emusonacid!

Hi everyone

what is the best way to get the samples inside my e6400 classic onto a cd as .wav's?

If I understand you correctly you want to end up with your sounds on a cd in WAV format and not as an E-mu CD-ROM.
Here are three approaches you could try.

METHOD 1
Read this article ...
How to Burn an Emu-format Sample CD Rom on a PC
This article explains how to burn sample banks from your samplers HD to CD in E-mu format.
LINK... http://www.tweakheadz.com/CDR.html

Once a disc is created you can read it with CDXTRACT LINK ... http://www.cdxtract.com/home.php
This software will read E-mu discs on a PC or Mac and allow you to save the samples, banks or entire disc to a folder in WAV format (or many other sampler formats) with key mapping if you wish.

The advantage with this approach is
1. You have a hard copy of the stuff you want on CD-ROM in E-mu format.
2. It can be loaded into the PC and then saved in many formats
3. Loop points that you made in the E-mu are kept in the WAV files.
4. No sound quality is lost as the whole process stays in the digital domain.

This method will work fine, the hard bit is making the CD-ROM.

METHOD 2
Another approach would be to hook the samplers audio outputs into a PC/Mac sound card and record the samples in manually, but this method would be lossy as you would be going Digital - Analogue - Digital. You would also lose your loop points.

METHOD 3
Sample dumps via midi (SMIDI)
Try looking around this forum for more details of the best way to do this.
It is something I know little about, apart from the fact that you will need the patience of a saint if you want to transfer more than a few samples (Soooo Sloooowww)

Anyone out there found an easy way to get WAVs from a classic into a computer?

Chickensys translator is also an alternative to cdxtract! i will also endorse scsi transfer. I aquired an old mac g4 rarher cheap. And its stable as a rock!! Using it with dsp quattro 2.5

I just thought of a easier method. This is the one I use, so why didn't I recommend it ? Doh!
Save the samples as .wav files in your ultra to a zip disk formatted in fat (Ultra must be running EOS 4.7 to work with fat)
Using a USB zip drive connected to your PC/Mac it is now possible to import the .wav files into the computer and save them in a folder.
Burn this folder to cd as a data disc.
With this method you will retain the loop points and all the different sample rates.
I would love to know why you want to do this (Akai transfer?)