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

Finally opened her up. This is what I found.....  >:(

if you use the normal 1/4 outputs will they be affected anyway by this mod ?

or will you have to get some type of device to plug into that pinout port?

I don't know. I am still working on the unit doing the HD upgrade (cf flash from SCSI4Samplers 1GB) and Telesis backlight. I should have everything back together today, so I will let you know. From what I can tell, I would have to say that it was a professional job by whoever did it, and someone has written D.M. 6/22/88 on the inside of the unit. Most likely a tech.
All of the inputs/outputs are connected to this thing, so I am wondering if I could get a snake that would plug into it or not. It would be nice and tidy especially given the amount of gear that I will be running.

you shouldn't need anything from scsi4samplers to put a cf card in your EIII as your HD.  All the parts can be purchased separately.  Not to say scsi4samplers doesn't offer a good service, but I think it would just be adding a lot of costs to the project.




If you are putting in the backlight yourself can you take pics as you install it and make a thread on the forum for it please?

Concerning the cabling modifications : It should not change anything to the 6,35 outputs, only maybe impedance, the outputs may be lower when these new outputs are used in parallel with the normal ones.

Something else : the issue on the E3 about the disks are the cost, power consumprtion, and the noise.

Why not, instead of a memory card, putting an IDE laptop (portable computer) hard disk inside ? Fast, very silent, low power consumption, rugged against shocks...

do you mean like a netbook / mini notebook

i think that would add a lot of extra heat


also i believe the largest HD that the EIII OS can see is 1 gb.  getting a 1 gb HD for a laptop would be something rather old, larger, more heat, moving parts in the HD

I don't remember if I have tried ever tried larger disks than 1 gig.

Next time I get an E3, I will try and let know.

Do you know whhere to get PALS to upgrade a machine from 4 to 8 megs ?

Regards

i know someone who has ram for EIII but not those PAL chips.  :( 


man those pal chips are like a pre-dongle technology to make sure users would not go out and just purchase ram and stick it in their machines.

There is a guy here in Calgary that used to repair all the big band name's synths out of L.A.
He has been doing it for 30+ years and now runs a synth museum here. Really impressive, but he has EVERYTHING. I have met him and he has eprom burners, can upgrade EII memory - the works.
He still offers full service for all synths and samplers. When I was there last, he had a prophet 5 in for repair from the Talking Heads that he was just about to ship back to them. He also has all the old tape backups for pre sysex stuff too. He has even found a way to duplicate the coveted Emax II memory upgrade disks and can do that too.
I am going to have to give him the EIII I am working on as it turns out the inverter for the backlight is actually the problem, and not the backlight itself.
Reference the hard drive I put in, it will not come out of the verifying format screen. After a reboot, I tried to install the O.S. to it and got a bank does not exist error. I think that there might be a thread on the forum here concerning that very issue.
Anyway, the guys name here that fixes and upgrades all is:

John Leimseider, Cantos Music Foundation
403-543-5127
leimseiderj@cantos.ca

I know someone who makes those. I'll try to find his email adress...

Thanks in advance...