emusonacid! legacy

Hi, new to the boards here and pretty new to the EMU as well!

I picked up an E6400 Classic a little bit ago and have been messing with it and learning how to use it. It has an internal SCSI hdd (9 gig'ish) and I also have an external SCSI hdd for it (2 gigs). I have a lot of samples/presets on both of these as it came preloaded, but I would like to get sounds off of these drives on to my PC, and more importantly I would like to get samples from my PC over to my EMU. Floppy is so small that it's basically not worth the effort....

I have been reading some about how to do this, and I'm running in to a lot of OLD information, and LOTS of outdated/broken links. It sounds like I can use SMDI to do this transferring.. and it sounds like SMDI simply goes over a SCSI card?

Can anyone running linux that has experience with this give me some details on the software they use, and recommendations on a SCSI card for my PC? I see a lot about 'OpenSMDI' but I can't even find a link to it that isn't broken....

Thanks a lot,

Robert

I cannot help you out implementing it, but you can find OpenSMDI at:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Prog ... nSMDI.html

Once you have the library, you'll need to make your own program, or use:

http://nolv.free.fr/SMDITools/

Has anybody had actual success using this OpenSMDI library before? I've gotten it to do some things, like find my sampler and pull a sample from it. I've also gotten it to make my sampler lock up, and to confuse it and get it in to a point where one harddrive was rendered unusable (!!!!), and then that worked itself out somehow?????????

Needless to say I'm interested in hearing from anybody who may have experience, before I screw up my sampler or data

Thanks,

Robert

For my part, in Linux I make akai disk images from wav samples with akaitools : http://www.ispl.jp/~oosaki/software/aka ... index.html

Then I burn the image to CD and read the Akai CD with a SCSI cd rom connected to the EMU, as EMU is 100% compatible with Akai format, I find it usefull

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This solution for transfering wav samples does not require a SCSI interface in the PC

For anybody that cares (it's common decency to close your own threads if you solve it), I fooled with the opensmdi and smditools. OpenSMDI is nice, but smditools is a total piece of garbage. I've never ever seen code that badly written before, totally disgusting and just plain wrong. I don't know how some of his logic would work for *any* sampler period, and it probably never did.

Anyway I kinda rehacked some of the stuff to send to a sampler, and it works albeit a little flakey. I considered success being able to pull a sample off the sampler, and put one on. After I send a few, the sampler always crashes. It makes no sense, something must be handled wrong, who knows. It's enough for me so far to just up one sound and fool with that..

If anybody cares or is in this situation, I could go ahead and give them my code. Ideally one day I will really finish it up and then rerelease it to the public.. but realistically, I'll probably just spend my free time making beats instead of that!

Big up to everyone who helped, and PM me to anyone I may be able to help.

Robert

i tried loading an akai .akp file to my emu and it said unknown file tpye .... why is this?