emusonacid! legacy

I have a couple of E5000 and an E4 XT samplers

I have banks set up but I need to transfer them (banks, presets, samples) into a format such as soundfont or gigastudio and be able to play them on my laptop through a ST host such as Cubase.

I have a scsi zip 100 which I have backed everything to and I have ordered a USB zip 100.

Hopefully I should be able to connect the usb zip 100 to my pc, insert the zip disks from the scsi zip 100 into it and see them on my pc

Then I understand that CDXtract software can see this (like any windows software through the list of available drives) and can convert the banks into any format going... Soundfont/Kontact/gigastudio....

I don't know if this works yet (eg USB zip reading scsi zip files as it isn't here and I know nothing about file formats.)

What does worry me us my DVD/cd drive cannot read my emu library disks...

Like I say I don't understand about file formats.... Can anybody help? I want to be able to keep my e4's and transfer what I like to a vst based solution as and when...

1.
The CD-Roms are in a format that OSX and Windows don't recognize.
A list of applications for conversion (also for the files on your Emu-HD) you will find her:
http://www.emusonacid.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3678&p15541

2.
If you use FAT16/FAT32 for formatting the ZIP-discs, then you will be able to transfer your files from your Emulator to your PC/Mac.
You have to know that this is really time-consuming if you have a large library and a ZIP-disc of 100MB. The capacity of the ZIP-100 (formatted capacity: 94.6MB) might get an issue if you have banks, larger than 94.6 MB.
It will be much faster if you use a SCSI-HD, formatted in FAT32-format. Make a backup of your files to this HD, connect it afterwards to your PC/Mac via SCSI and transfer or convert the content of this HD to your PC/Mac via the above mentioned applications.

Thank you very much for the response.

My library is all on cd Ron bought from a dealer off eBay ... But that's not important. I can always access that.

I've only got about 6 banks all of which rake up about 40-50 meg I reckon ... This stuff I need to get done quickly and if the zip will read them then that's great... If not I'll format a spare disk in fat32, load the banks, save them to the fat32 zip and go from there...

Hi Im afraid Im going to ask another question.

I have my USB zip.. it works etc...

I formatted my zips on it, put them in the zip drive on my e5000 and I copied over some banks to it.

I then put the zip disk back in the PC and went to explorer and there they are.. the banks, individually titled by name with the extention E4B. All about the right size too

Problem is the bloody CDExtract software cant pick them up.. its like they are not a recognised format. Any idea where I go from here?

CDXtract can't handle .E4B-files when not offered on a mass storage media with EOSFAT filesystem.
If you format the ZIP in EOSFAT-format, CDXtract is able to read the files on the ZIP-disc.