emusonacid! legacy

Hey there,

i`m new here and also new on EMU Samplers. During my research for EMU 6400 Ultra Samplers i read a lot about CF Reader and EOS 4.7 and FAT etc. etc. etc.

In the EOS 4.1 Manual i found out that this OS can definitely can read WAVE or AIFF Files. The Manual says that the Files must be on a DOS formated Floppy Drive.

Does a Zip work too? Thus a formated CF Card also? FAT16 or FAT32? You can format to FAT16 on a MAC i found short Tutorials on Google.


cheers

T*

No, it's a little disappointing, but all EOS-versions between 4.0 and 4.62 can only read and write DOS-formatted (FAT12) Floppy Discs.
As I don't have access to an EOS-device with EOS 2.x to EOS 3.00b I can't give any information about the handling of DOS-formatted Floppy discs to predecessors of EOS 4.0.

As described in the manual (EOS 4.0), the floppy discs have to be formatted externally via PC or MAC.
A more comprehensive support for FAT16 and FAT 32 has been introduced with EOS 4.70 (beta) for the Ultra-line.

FYI:
- FAT12 is used for floppy discs (360KB, 720KB, 1.44MB, 2.88MB) and storage media up to 16MB.

The "12" indicated that the total amount of Clusters is 2^12=4096 with a Clustersize of 512 Byte to 4096 Byte.
The old ATARI ST could also read and write to this floppy discs (720KB).

- FAT16 is for removeable storage medias with 2GB to 4GB capacity.
- FAT32 is used for all kind of storage media with a capacity of more than 2GB.

The FAT-support of EOS 4.70 is limited to a maximum capacity of 128GB.

If someone likes to have more than one EMU sampler of the E4-line, you can purchase one of the Ultra-series, running EOS 4.70, and one of the classic-series, running EOS 4.x classic.
As with the option for file-interchange via FAT16/32-formatted media, you can also backup banks from the FAT16/32-formatted media to an EOSFAT-formatted media (e.g. HD or CF-cardreader, shared on the SCSI-bus) for accessing the files via the sampler of the classic line, too.

A CF-card of 16GB should be sufficient for most of the things most sampler-users like to do.
With using libraries with orchestral instruments or other 3rd party libraries the amount of required storage memory will grow.

Cheers,
mosrob