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

Just purchased an EII and am excited to start working with it.  I knew going into the purchase that my EII may have problems, but so far everything seems to be working.  The one exception is that I can't hear anything after loading sounds from disk.  I followed the "instant gratification" instructions in the manual and can see the names of presets in the display, but when I play the keyboard I hear nothing.  I can hear very slight crackling when I adjust the mix out volume.

I hope I'm just being a bonehead.  Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks,
who

Try plugging your output cable into the individual outputs first.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I tried that.  Still nothing. :(

At first I was using headphones, but now I have it connected to my audio interface.  All I hear is some low frequency thumping when I press the keys and with the gain cranked.  I can tell that at least some of the voices are trying to sound.

I tried connecting each of the channel outputs to my audio interface and I basically get the same sound from them that I do from the mix output; low frequency garbled thumps.

Okay -  8)

Open it up, and press your thumb on every chip and connector inside.
UNPLUG it before, AND TOUCH A RADIATOR before.

Let's see what happens afterwards.
(No kidding, good luck.)

Case open and IC pressing in progress ;D

thanks for your help.  I pressed every chip except the ones under the power supply and the memory expansion board and rebooted the EII.  Unfortunately, it didn't help.   I just get thumping when I press the keys.

shit.
 ???

Damn. hm...  What kind of disk you got?

The only disks I have are sound disks from Northstar.

For what it's worth, I read posts about problems with the power supply.  I don't see any browning or burn marks on the connectors or wires.

If your disk drives don't hang, I think everything's allright with your PSU.
But I have no more idea what could be wrong. I'm no tech, so...

Try emptying your ram and sample something yourself. Maybe the disk's content is crap.

Thanks again.  A few northstar disks were included with the EII and I've tried most of them and get the same result.  For what it's worth, I disabled all but one voice and then modified the filter setting for the entire keyboard.  I can hear the filter cutoff and Q settings change, but just barely.  The sound is supposed to be brass, but it sounds nothing like brass.

who

Good news and bad news:  I've removed and cleaned most of the ICs and it now works!  Well, at least I can hear sounds and they sound like they should.  The bad news is that the top seven keys do not work:  When I try to assign a voice to those keys, the EII doesn't recognise that I'm pressing the keys.

The other bad news is that I damaged one of the RAM chips on the memory expansion board.  Fortunately, they appear to be relatively easy to source inexpensively.

Sample span of the EII is one octave up/one octave down.

Try to assign the ORIGINAL sample to c4 or c5. Maybe your preset samples just are located underneath..

Greetz,
Elm.

This same thing happened to me when me EII was sent to me in the post.
I opened the unit up and found that the added memory board (the board on top of the main board) had come out of its socket. I pushed it back in and closed the lid and luckily for me this fixed it.
I hope this helps.
Cheers...

I replaced a bad chip on the memory board, made sure the board was securely fastened and everything appears to be working except the top seven keys.  I'm at a loss. ???

I also created a separate thread called "dead key range" and will stop posting here.