emusonacid! legacy

This may be common knowledge here but I thought I would post it for those who may want to do this. This is acually a copy of a message I recently sent to someone here. Also, perhaps there is an easier way but this does work. Ok, this is not totally painless but it works. Go to disc browse, if your Esynth Rom is enabled you should see it listed along with your other drives. The Esynth rom is 15.9MB. Press F4 to load the Rom into the bank (dont merge). OK, now get out of disc browse and check out your banks. They are different from the Esynth presets because you havn't really loaded any presets yet. Now save whats in the bank (which is all the rom samples) to your hard drive. Go to master section and disable the ROM. You will have to reboot for this to take effect. Reboot. Go to disc browse again and load the previous bank that you saved. while your there, load the Esynth presets also (merge this time). What you have in the bank now is all the samples and presets from the Esynth but as you will notice, the presets have all empty samples. Since the samples really are in the bank though all you have to do, this is the painfull part (but not to bad) is go to any preset you like (the Esynth presets, not the rom presets) then go to preset edit. The sample numbers are there but it will say empty sample. Using either the keypad or a hooked up keyboard, highlight the empty sample and type in the same number that is allready there and, PRESTO! that sample is now there. You have to continue down thru all the voices this way by just retyping the sample number thats allready there. When finished, you will have the exact preset and sounds from the ROM but this time you can save it to your hard drive. If you did this with each preset you liked then the ROM could remain disabled if you like. Also I would think it possible to bring it into your PC with no problem. The only drawback is that for each preset, you are resaving the samples along with it so it could get a bit big in the HD as opposed to using the ROM which just points the prestes to samples allready loaded.
niles

I can't remember the specifics however I'm sure that a few times I have merged banks or presets that have had identical samples, however EOS ignored duplicates and pointed them to the first sample that was loaded in. I might be on cloud cuckoo land here but it may be worth a try. Try starting off with an empty Emu and then load in each preset individually from your HD, do you still get duplicate samples?

The other thing is, aren't the samples and presets from the Esynth Rom on a CD Rom somewhere. I know there are collections like the Formula 4000 CD Rom that has samples from the E-mu Orbit and Planet Phatt. There is also the Protozoa CD Rom, which is apparently 'The best of the classic Proteus(R) 1, 2, 3 and Vintage Keys'. It would save you a bit of work if you could get hold of one with the Esynth Rom on it.

Maybe some kind persom has already done all the hard work for you, considering that you own the original I can't see any illegalities if someone was to post you a copy a CD that they have made from their Esynth Rom

illinformed,,,I'll jump on cloud cuckoo today or tomorrow and give this a go. I agree, it should work. Ya would still have to manually set the samples in place for each preset though,,,I think. Yea, it's a bit of work but as I'm not crazy about everything in Esynth I'll just do the ones I like. Its nice to at least have the samples from the rom to make up your own presets anyways which can be done without all those steps. I just put the rom itself into the bank and go nuts. I was unaware of the cd's you mentioned, I'll check em out. Thanks!
niles

I got the e-synth presets changed to hd-samples on a floppy :)

Ole wrote:I got the e-synth presets changed to hd-samples on a floppy :)

I'd really like to have them back !!!

I lost them doing a bad manipulation on my e-synth as I don't have a HD connected to it :(

Thanks in advance.

Well, then it woudl not really help you since my preset (which I got from James Botak, thanks!) points to samples saved on my hd... But I do have the e-synth classic presets around somewhere. I'll go and look, and I'll get back to you most likely sometime during the next week.

Sounds good.
Waiting for your will.

For the moment I'm 4 hours driving away from my emu. I'll get back to you soon =)