emusonacid! legacy

easy all :-)

After years of the emu being in the loft I finally dug it back out and connected it up again!!

Its an e5000 ultra with 128mb ram - did have an internal drive but that died a long time ago.....

heres the problem... When I try to record through the input jacks, I get a lot of noise - almost like digital distortion - not just "hiss".

I've tried playing with the settings - lowering the input gain etc
tried balanced & unbalanced cables
tried individually removing the 2 sticks of ram to rule that out...and the ram ports
even tried removing the earth pin from the kettle lead haha!!

this is driving me crazy now...the other problem is I use a mac pro running os x 10.5 so a scsi transfer cant really be done :-(

can anyone suggest anything? to get rid of the noise? or a good way to get samples from the mac into the emu....

cheers,

James

This affects only sampling, you don't have that hiss when playing back samples ? You may check if something became loose inside the machine (connector/cable) if this all brings nothing I'd say the ADC-Converters are having a defect. If so my guess is that a repair (if spare-part would be available) would cost more then the sampler these days, unless you have a "technician friend" helping you.

Now I'm entering thin ice, since I have no experience with Apple computers, can't you maybe install XP on there and run EMXP
http://users.skynet.be/emxp/, if you can FAT format with MAC you could save samples(wav/aif(f)) to a FAT formatted removable media (zip/Jaz/MOD), then exchange disk to a second drive connected to E-mu. See info about this in EOS 4.70 manual addendum.

thanks, shame if it is the ADC as it would have been like that from new as i always used scsi to transfer before :-(

can you use a usb floppy drive with the mac and transfer the sample to the emu that way?

JD wrote:thanks, shame if it is the ADC as it would have been like that from new as i always used scsi to transfer before :-(

can you use a usb floppy drive with the mac and transfer the sample to the emu that way?

I thought about what else could cause this hiss, but nothing came to mind. At first I would check if something came loose (pull power-cord before, of course), check all the cabling,- maybe de- and reconnect, only god knows maybe reinstall the EOS new > Init EE and recalibrate volume and rotary encoder , and the miracle happens - maybe

Forgot to mention that FAT support was added with EOS 4.7. So yeah, as recommended by E-mu solution would be having one removable drive for MAC (USB) and one for Ultra (SCSI), this way you could exchange wav and aiff between them by swapping the media/disk itself, - and again I'm out there regarding this -if your MAC can either FAT format by itself OR at least read/write to the disk that was FAT-formatted by the E-mu.