emusonacid!

i've gotten a e64 with jaz drive (ext) and cd drive (ext) and the 3.5" floppy drive that's built into the sampler. i haven't been able to really use the thing yet, but i was planning on slowly transferring the samples on my hard drive to the sampler's hard drive by recording them from my PC's audio out and saving them to the sampler. then i would transfer them to jaz disks.

today i've realized that this will take a really long time, and it would make things a lot easier if i could put the .wav files directly onto a jaz disk and then read them from the emu's jaz drive. but usb jaz drives and cables and things appear to be wildly overpriced, so i thought i could get a usb floppy drive and use floppies for transferring .wavs between my PC hard drive and emu hard drive.



but 1.44MB isn't enough to hold more than 2 or 3 .wavs at a time. does the e64's built-in floppy drive accept disk capacities of over 1.44MB? if i could use disks of 21 or even 120+ MB, i could transfer entire folders of samples at a time.

i'm also planning to use 3.5" floppies to hold individual tune-specific files, but again i imagine i'm going to need at least 21 MB per tune.

i hope i haven't made an ass of myself here, i tried the search function. i don't know much at all about samplers or floppy disks, i'm just a kid. any advice is much appreciated.

Hi!

Buy an old scsi card, from Adaptec for example, for your PC/Mac and connect it with the sampler. I think there must be freeware programs in the www which you can use for transferring the samples/wav´s directly.
I´m using wavelab 4 for this and it works really good. Look on ebay or so on for wavelab or something else.

Transferring wav´s with floppy is a torture......dont´do it anymore....

And the floppydrive of the e64 is a normal drive for a maximum of 1,44mb!

Christian

cheers for the response, man. that's too bad, i was looking forward to actually using floppies for something. i don't have an scsi port on my PC, and i imagine that usb-scsi cables would be both too expensive and too unreliable. i'll just have to suck it up and do it through audio, one bit at a time, i reckon.

thanks!!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but a Adaptec scsi card will hook up to the PCs internal IDE bus.
It will act as the translator for your pc and will allow you to drop .wav files onto a scsi drive formated in FAT. However the older ultras will not read FAT formatted discs
I do remember there was a member who was using a freeware program to do smidi transfers. The software was not for the emu but it worked perfectly. I can't recall what this software was called or whether the transfer was via scsi or midi (not much help I'm afraid) so if anyone knows more please jump in.

btw - Sony Soundforge will do scsi transfers but it isn't cheap with this pro level feature.

well, what about samplers that do accept floppy disks of larger capacities?