New E-mu II owner

[emu2will]

Just wanted to say Hi, I?m a soon to be e-mu II owner and was wondering what restoration or upgrades are currently available. Mine will have the 2 floppy drives, considering replacing one with an SD or USB upgrade for convenience. Any thoughts or recommendations for a noob?

[emu2will]

Thanks for the warm welcome! lol Seriously, I have been having a blast https://m.soundcloud.com/earthstation/e-mu-emulator-ii-1984 with my EII but have been unable to save any of my samples. After some swapping of drives, I believe that my second floppy is no good. Also, after looking into USB/SD (I do have a USB unable to make work) I am leaning towards just getting another floppy and staying old school. Any advice on how to set up the second floppy, any resources? I was going to just buy one on eBay... thanks for you expertise!

[alka]

you have to have a library or bank image on the SD card to write over.. it will not write these from scratch to the SD card. Perhaps this is the issue? There are blank 'save' banks available for download over at the EII yahoo group

[who]

Hi emu2will,

Checkout EMXP if you haven't already.  Indispensable for working with E-mu samplers in my opinion.

Once you have an HxC setup correctly, you won't look back.  There is plenty of info here and at the HxC site:

http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/index.php?sid=60127760143b4fbd1fd3ec2cb713e91b

(scroll down for sampler info)

[JMP]

Thanks for the warm welcome! lol Seriously, I have been having a blast https://m.soundcloud.com/earthstation/e-mu-emulator-ii-1984 with my EII but have been unable to save any of my samples. After some swapping of drives, I believe that my second floppy is no good. Also, after looking into USB/SD (I do have a USB unable to make work) I am leaning towards just getting another floppy and staying old school. Any advice on how to set up the second floppy, any resources? I was going to just buy one on eBay... thanks for you expertise!

Good luck finding a replacement 5.25" floppy that works, they're like chicken teeth. Shugart SA-465 you need from memory to be sure of it working fine.

Appears HxC is the way to go these days ,although I've had some disappointing results with my DPX-1 using HxC (quality suffers following EII>DPX>hfe conversions).