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Emax II operation manual
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EMAX II BASICS
Other Definitions
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The Emax II will not
boot up unless all
devices on the SCSI
bus are turned on.
OTHER DEFINITIONS
The Disk Archives
So far, we’ve loaded a bunch of voices into the bank, created some presets containing
those voices, and done some voice processing. However,
remember that the bank only
retains this information for as long as the Emax II is plugged in and turned on. Of course,
we don’t expect you to leave the thing on all the time, which brings us to the subject of
saving data on disks.
Commanding the central computer to “Save All 16-bit” ( PRESET MANAGEMENT 8 )
shuttles all the bank data (voices, presets, and sequences) to disk. This disk permanently
(well, at least as long as the disk lasts) stores data so that even after turning off the Emax
II, the disk will contain a record of your work.
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Emax II also allows you to save your work in an Emax I format. This process uses a
data compression process to squeeze more data onto a disk. A 1 megabyte Emax II bank,
when compressed, may be stored on a single floppy disk. In many cases the compressed
data will be audibly indistinguishable from the 16-bit version.
IF YOU DO NOT DO A “SAVE ALL”, ALL BANK DATA WILL BE LOST WHEN YOU
TURN OFF EMAX II.
Do not wait until the end of a session to save—save your work ( PRESET MANAGE-
MENT 8 ) periodically in case of power failure or some other unforeseen circumstance
which might erase the bank’s memory.
Since the disk (hard disk or floppy) contains a record of the bank data, loading the disk
back into the bank transfers all the voice, preset, and sequencer data into the bank (this
will replace the existing bank data, if any). Therefore, you can work a bank of sounds out
at leisure, and save the results of your work on disk; when you go to a gig, simply load
all your hard work from disk into the Emax II in a few seconds.
The Keyboard
The LFO, VCA, VCF and AHDSR analog signal processors are tied to keyboard
dynamics (for example, playing harder can alter the loudness, attack time, filter cutoff,
etc.), as are some preset assignment characteristics (i.e. playing louder assigns a different
voice to a particular key).
Booting
Booting Emax II is not a repair technique; rather, it is a computer term that means
“having the computer read software necessary for its operation from the disk” (It’s easy
to see why this was shortened to “booting”). Emax II automatically “boots” itself when
you turn it on. Once booted, the instrument is ready to go.
Default
A default setting is what we’ve judged to be a useful initial setting, and remains in effect
until you change it. For example, the arpeggiator defaults to off when a new preset is
created. Had it defaulted to the on position, new presets would all be arpeggiated!