E-mu Emulator Sampler User Forum for the EIII EII EI and EIII XP

This evening I was doing some SF2 research and read a thread by Esynthesist posted back in 2008.  In it he wrote the following:

"I'm still doubting whether I will add SoundFont2 support to EMXP or not. The idea behind this was that it would "open" the Emu sample banks to any other sampler out there (and vice versa) since SoundFont2 is a widely supported soundformat. But I have a slight feeling that no one is really interested in this feature... SoundFont2 is a very generic dataformat which means it's quite complicated to support. It would take a huge amount of time to extend EMXP with SF2, so I won't do it if it's not useful or not high priority."

I am so glad he didn't listen to his gut and instead decided to continue w/ SF2 support.

Thanks Esynthesist!

He's the greatest anyway.

Thanks. It feels really good to read this kind of feedback !

...currently I'm still doubting whether I will add SP12 support to EMXP v3.00  ;D

I agree, you should do SP1200 support instead! ;)

no.

 :P

 :o

SP12 would be awesome!

SP-12 support please!  :o

I have bought the Watersedge SP-12 Librarian within the last year and it is working great for me have now built a pretty extensive sample library for the SP-12 with it. Thanks to Steve at Watersedge.
It is however missing the cool functions that Blank Software's DrumFile software had like taking a sdii file and converting it into SP-12 sample format to load into the sampler's memory and the reverse as well. Since that software is now impossible to find...
It would be totally cool if the SP-12 implementation into EXMP could also translate the SP-12 librarian sound sample files into sd2 format or other audio formats for those who have made extensive sample libraries using the WatersEdge software. Same with the Sequence files if possible. I know it maybe a long shot but this would totally round out the Emu legacy sampler support.
Since I have both an SP-12 Turbo and an EII this would be so awesome!!
I'm interested to see it work since it is all SysEx info over Midi...handshaking... In short it is always nice to know that you have an option of using a newer more common place computer than the old macs. Although I have a few Macs around specifically for this task you never know when they may one day stop working or be too expensive to repair due to the availability of the old parts.

ESynthesist, if it would be of any help I would gladly send you some sample files from my SP-12 librarian sample and sequence library.

Thanks for all of your hard work Esynthesist! Very inspirational indeed :D

I've been thinking about adding SP12 support to EMXP for quite a while already.
So far the main problem is *lack of time*. In the past I also had the problem that I didn't even have an SP12 in my studio, but that problem has been solved a while ago  ;)
Of course *if* SP12 will (ever) be added to EMXP, there will be sample translation possibilities available to/from all formats already supported by EMXP (except Akai S1000).  Support for sequences would be included (MIDI send/receive), but not the possibility to translate SP12 sequences to/from other sequencer formats. Whether WatersEdge files would also be supported is hard to say.

Anyway, the first next version of EMXP is v2.12, and this one will not have SP12 support yet. v2.12 will be a big "maintenance" release, which means a lot of code will have been optimized and cleaned "in the background", but only a few additional/visible features will be added in that version and definitely not any new sampler format. v2.12 is required in order to have a better baseline to add new features and sampler formats in future EMXP versions (starting with v3.00).

Sp12 would be nice, i bet there are enough people in sp1200 forum which are interessted in!

+1 for SP-12 Turbo support!

whether the 12 or 1200, from now on I'd like both supported  ;)   ::)

Come on Kris!  :-*

 ;D  ;D

I have got to say thanks as well. Esynthesist is the greatest for making those fantastic machines live on in modern days! Been using the EMuSer & EMXP for some time now and it's totally awesome! Can't wait for the new version though... ;)

Thanks again Esynthesist.
Licking our emulation sampling chops for the next release.  :-*

 SP support! Double please!  :D :o

Thanks for what you do. 

My vote is for the SP-1200, first. My guess is that it has a larger, more dedicated and more active user-base.

Imagine you could pre-cut samples (*.wavs) and then assign these to pads 1 - 32 (in EMXP) , save to disk, load it into the 1200..  There you go!  AWESOME!!!   :P

Although most of the 1200 nerds will comply and claim that 50 % of the GRIT is added by actually sampling through the thing's input..  ::)   :D

PLEAAAASSSSEEEEE!!!!  :-*  :-*  :-*

I hear all of you  ;)
But the release of version 2.12 is suffering from a huge delay... I'm currently testing an alpha version of v2.12, but it still needs some additional coding so it will definitely take a few other months. It's one of the most complicated version upgrades of EMXP that will ever have been released (although most of this will not be viewable by the users; the complexity sits "under the hood").
Once this version is released, the SP is the next thing that will be added. Adding SP support will be the start of the version 3.xx series of EMXP.
BTW: Unless someone offers me an SP1200 for a reasonable price, the first SP that will be supported will be the SP12. Because that's the one I have here in my studio... and I really need to have all samplers/drummachines in my studio for a pretty long time in order to get them supported by EMXP.