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

Trying to track down the Tears For Fears samples, can anyone help?

Im involved in a tribute project and just trying to find them.

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Hi

I don't know about the layout of the EII discs unfortunately.

But instead of buying an expensive EII you could maybe consider the much less expensive Oberheim DPX-1. The DPX-1 loads EII discs amongst other formats. Ebay usually have several DPX-1's on sale.

Just my two cents.

Best regards Brian

Hi,

1 try to connect EIII directly to midi keyb and figure if its EIII problem and not DAW.
2 check the cable and clean the contacts on the cable from CPU board to the output board.
3 the problem with MIDI can be caused by the faulty IC32 on cpu board - but its almost impossible to find replacement, I have a faulty one as well...

Kir

Can anyone recommend a technician in the U.S. who specializes in Emulator repairs?  My EIII has a couple of control panel issues that are beyond my ability to repair.

Hi there E-mu family,
I have an EIII bought in L.A. in 1989, Model 6081, Serial #0890671, and I recently had the original Internal 40 Mb Quantum HD replaced by an SCSI2SD 3.5" card, including a 50-pin SCSI to SD Card Adapter.
A 4 Go SD card was formatted with EMXP v311 and EIII OS 2.42 copied with HDD Raw Copy and it is now the Internal Drive the EIII boots from. It boots and works flawlessly, with the factory 4 Mb ram installed.

We then purchased the 8Mb memory upgrade kit 6084, featuring 8 x 1 Megabyte SIMM?s (1C356) + 2 IC, RAS PAL (IP376) and Address PAL (IP377), and installed it thoroughly according to the E-mu Systems Inc. memory expansion instructions manual, but unfortunately, the unit won?t boot anymore?
It starts loading from the SD card (SCSI #1) (or even the Floppy drive), but get stuck in the process and never completes the task. As soon as we re-install the old 4 Mb kit however, the unit boots and works without any problems.
 
Any suggestions ? Would anybody be aware of some incompatibility issues with Ram upgrade on certain EIII models ?
Could the problem be defectuous PAL376 and 377 circuits ? I was told that bad ram modules won?t prevent the EIII to boot.
Any idea of some tests to perform ?

Many thanks for your suggestions and advices.

Hi members ,

Did you have any issue regarding notes that get stucked?
Basically I use a ProTools with MacBook pro , Digi 003 as sound card & the Emu III with just the input midi connected.
My master keyboard is a Roland D20.
As soon as I create several midi channels , say from 1 to 8, I experienced random stuck notes. Sometimes I also have a big note (big long length) at the bottom of the scrolling midi editor , C1 note...
Did you have this problem before ? Divtou have a solution to resolve it please ?
Apart all this I definitely love the sound of it & understand more and more why so many people are fascinated by those old samplers.
Arnold

Hello - fellow EII users.  I am interested in buying an Emuser as I dont have the skill set to build one my self.  Any recommendations on where I could find one FS?

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi ,

Did you copy on your zulu partition disk the little file called "ZuluSCSIv1_0-1.0.9-4e2112b.bin " ? Without that it cannot be recognized by the EIII.

Hello Fellow Emulator Users -

I am trying to get a ZuluSCSI Mini RP 2040 (DB25) to work with my Emulator III XP but I am not having any luck.

The Zulu SCSI device is being externally powered.  It flashes red 5 times when the card in not installed and then flashes once - after I install the card.

The ZuluSCSI Mini RP2040 has a DB25 male connector so I am using an adapter to connect it to the Cen 50 connector on back of the EIIIXP

I have the EIIIXP set to SCSI ch 4.  The EIIIXP internal hard drive is set to SCSI ch 5.

I put an ISO file named CD1.ISO on the SD card.

While the EIIIXP boots up and can load files from its internal drive - it does not show the drives from the ZuluSCSI drive. 

I have tried the Mount Drives command and it is still not showing the drives from the ZuluSCSI.

Any thoughts / suggestions would be greatly appreciated???

Photo 1- shows the card formatted in a FAT32 format with a single partition

E3X by Jeff  Bergman, on Flickr

Photo 2 - shows the ZuluSCSI connected to the back of the EIIIXP

E3X by Jeff  Bergman, on Flickr

Photo 3- shows the ISO file on the SD Card

E3X by Jeff  Bergman, on Flickr

looking to buy the larger sized SE Upgrade Stickers for Emax 1 Keyboard. I see the smaller rack-friendly versions readily available. thanks for any leads!