emusonacid!

Hello guys,

I'm trying to reverse ingeneer the e4b file format to produce my own banks programmatically.
Did some nerd here already done that ?

Cheers,

Olivier

What exactly do you want to achieve?

1 Using a computer to build presets using WAVs and containing cords, save as EOS bank?
2 take an existing EOS bank and extract the samples inside a computer?
3 translate an emu preset into another format?

If so you could try CDXtract or Chicken Systems Translator, check info on the web for details.

I would be interested in any tool you could build that might make life easier

With Emulator X3 you can create banks on your PC and export them as .e4b-banks, although EX3 has a rough GUI.
If you can create an application with a more intuitive GUI, a better workflow, more drag&drop support and lot of templates for voice/preset creation: Go for it!

Hi crew,

Jahfunk : n°1 is the right one. The goal is to write an application (most probably in C# which is the language I'm used to work with, as a developper) that would create .e4b banks from scratch, via a GUI (build with .wav samples stored on the PC). In the past I did it all of my presets with ZoeOs via SCSI (SMDI was a life saver), but now I'm in the Win7 world and SCSI seems like a dead language to my laptop. Still I can exchange loads of data between the PC and the EMu, thanks to the compact flash reader mounted in the floppy bay (32 gigs recognized ).

I've tried an old version of Translator (2.9 as far as I can remember), there were bugs and the application crashed quite often. If anyone has experience on the latest version, I'd be glad to hear about how it runs.

mosrob : did'nt try Emulator X3, at least it's nice to see that there is another tool that exist ! I'll drop an eye on it.

Back the the reverse engineering stuff : so far, I already found a bit of structure in the .e4b files, but it's loooong geeky work analysing differences between hex files (hopefully some Tools make life easier). But when the work will be a little more achieved, I'll post the results here (even if it's not 100% hacked, help is always appreciated ^^)

Olivier