emusonacid! legacy

For all of ableton lives lovely innovations, it cant do simple functions on drum slices. So its back to the sampler. Im using recycle on a mac (osx Tiger) to slice up breaks, but how can i transfer slices to sampler with automatic mapping? I want to slice into say 50 parts, transfer to the sampler and its ready to use...

If this is possible, which scsi card do i need?

This is exactly how I use the sampler. Instant drum kits, total freedom to tweek the crap out of your samples before dumping them into a bank. Waaay faster than fiddly mouse clicking, though ableton dones have some nice slice handling - its just not as "studio friendly" to me.
I use sound forge to take eg. a radio sample, then a stutter FX to slice it, then stretch, pitch, phase, distort compress compress compress slices or chunks of slices individually e.g. take 16 slices, phase them, then compress and add a short 'verb and wey-hay- perfect nice little sliced effected "time sequenced" hits that I can run in order as notes or re-order to create quirky reversed phased weirdo minimal techno playtime goodness :)

Now, the only challenge is I have to do this on a PC as unless you have an older Mac with an ATTO SCSI PCI card then its seemingly impossible to get the Mac to do SCSI to the sampler......I've even tried

However, one thing I am going to try when I rebuild my studio - I've just moved across to SF from the US East coast - is to get Recycle to dump slices out to WAV files and then write a small batch utility to take these wave files and substitute them into a pre-existing set of "dummy" wave files.

This is the idea:

* on the Emu create a bank which has individual samples mapped across the keyboard already - e.g. something I'd created before.
* This would be eg. "Drum Kit 1" with SAMPLE1.WAV, SAMPLE2,WAV.......SAMPLE76.WAV already created - a dummy bank.
* using FAT32 based IDE drives and my USB-IDE adapter (see other posts), connect my drive to my Mac or PC using USB
* Using recycle get it to dump a bunch of WAV slices to disk
* then copy the slices over to the Drive as SAMPLE1.WAV, SAMPLE2.WAV, SAMPLE76.WAV

So, in effect "inserting" the samples into pre existing key mapped zones (1 per key) to essentially insert a new WAV into what was the old "dummy" slot.

Make sense?

Anyones else have a sweet way to use the FAT32 file system to automap to existing banks or fiddle with existing banks ?

If only Constructor from Chicken systems would be a bit more....er...finished.....that would do it, plus permit editing of the Banks on the Mac or PC.....outside out the SCSI world.....the dream!

M

If the scsi transfer cant work, what about chopping up a break in recycle and saving it as an emu preset/bank on my computers hard drive. Then all i would have to do is put it onto zip and whack it into the sampler....that would be perfect. Possible?