by vermis_rex » Sun May 13, 2007 10:18 pm
Actually, I've heard that the situation isn't quite that clear... towards the end of the production runs on the E-mu Proteus 2000 expansion sound ROMs, they started burning some of them on a Flash RAM SIMM instead of a ROM. Occasionally, there have been some people who accidentally erased the Flash RAM (having thought it was a ROM and couldn't be erased). One or two of those people actually had an e4 Ultra lying around and they could re-write the RAM in the unit. Be careful... I doubt you really want to erase MoPhatt, even if it is a RAM instead of a ROM.
But, in general, christ is right... on the assumption that ROM is (as it claims) a ROM (Read Only Memory), you would actually have to find yourself a 16Mb or 32Mb Flash RAM SIMM (not easy to find these days... most Flash RAM gets used in Flash memory cards for cameras and such these days, I haven't found anybody still making even 32MB SIMMS). Then you can load it into an Ultra series e4 (it will not write in a Classic series unit) and load it with your own custom samples. These would become instruments in a Proteus 2000-family unit, and you could then build P2K presets around them. On the Ultra, the presets would be built in the Ultra's own preset Flash RAM, not on the RAM SIMM (for reasons I'm not entirely clear on... other than that, while conceptually similar, the preset data from the e4 and P2K are not actually directly compatible)
All of this is a bit moot, as you only have a Classic unit. You could get somebody else with an Ultra to write a RAM for you (if you had a RAM), but you can't do it yourself in that machine.