EmulatorX MusikMesse

[Benedict]

Are there any Emulator X music demos (or even a s/ware demo) anywhere. They don't have a distributor in Oz anymore.

[alienmachine]

With the latest Creative debacle it won't surprise me that this never gets released. We'll see. After I read all about those assholes from Creative (who, unfortunately, own E-mu) I'm seriously thinking using Kontakt exclusively.

[eduardo_b]

With the latest Creative debacle it won't surprise me that this never gets released. We'll see. After I read all about those assholes from Creative (who, unfortunately, own E-mu) I'm seriously thinking using Kontakt exclusively.

I wouldn't change software just because I didn't like the company if I liked the software. Plus you would have to like the replacement software as much. It's okay to love the software, hate the company.

[alienmachine]

With the latest Creative debacle it won't surprise me that this never gets released. We'll see. After I read all about those assholes from Creative (who, unfortunately, own E-mu) I'm seriously thinking using Kontakt exclusively.

I wouldn't change software just because I didn't like the company if I liked the software. Plus you would have to like the replacement software as much. It's okay to love the software, hate the company.

Yeah, I understand that. But, unfortunately, I started to hate the software. It's so fu..ing buggy that I stopped using it. My main sampler now is Kontakt. At least it does not crash as often as Emu-X. However, I still cannot do some things with it that I can with Emu-X, like wavetable synthesis.

[djsubject]

Are there any Emulator X music demos

Yes,

but i am not allowed to post it intill they put it up on there web site,

i did it when EmuX2 first came out

they inform me they wish to put it up with the release of EmuX3

time will tell

Subz

[Dudulle]

Hi there,

And help, please
My Emulator X 2 is not running any more since yesterday:(
I've been using it for one year now and never had a problem.
I work on a PC PIV 3.2 Ghz, 3Go ram and a 1820m.
All is ok including cubase, soundforge and others.
So I've desinstalled Emulator X 2.
And made a new installation. First installing Emulator X 1.0 (I've updated to EmulatorX 2) which runs ok.
Then cd installation update for EmulatorX 2. But it fails to run again. Just got the Emu window and interface for a few seconds and pshhh it disappears

I've emailed to the EMU support but still have no answer at the moment.
Can someone help me?

[yuk]

Are you using ATI/AMD graphic card?
There were an issue between radeon driver and emulator's copy protection.
but it is solved by updating radeon driver.

E-MU unofficial forum:http://www.productionforums.com/viewforum.php?f=114
The forum might help you.

Hi there,

And help, please
My Emulator X 2 is not running any more since yesterday:(
I've been using it for one year now and never had a problem.
I work on a PC PIV 3.2 Ghz, 3Go ram and a 1820m.
All is ok including cubase, soundforge and others.
So I've desinstalled Emulator X 2.
And made a new installation. First installing Emulator X 1.0 (I've updated to EmulatorX 2) which runs ok.
Then cd installation update for EmulatorX 2. But it fails to run again. Just got the Emu window and interface for a few seconds and pshhh it disappears

I've emailed to the EMU support but still have no answer at the moment.
Can someone help me?

[modobo]

Hi guys, I dont know if this is the right part of the forum for this but I can't find anywhere else to post this problem. I use a emulator x2 for a sampler. When I am running a midi file or other projects, the sampler picks and chooses what notes it plays. This is to say it jumps notes on different runs but it is the same notes affected mostly. I use sonar 7 but once I switch over to a different sound source like reason or vsampler, the problem goes away. Can anyone shed some light on this.

[Vectorman]

My main sampler now is Kontakt. At least it does not crash as often as Emu-X. However, I still cannot do some things with it that I can with Emu-X, like wavetable synthesis.

That kind of piqued my curiosity, thinking that maybe E-mu X actually had a full-blown facility on-board for creating custom PPG-style wavetables. I was skimming through the E-mu X Advanced Applitions PDF, and in the section on creating wavetable effects, it looked like it was basically just crossfading between layers with different waveforms loaded into them, under LFO and envelope control (which is a bit like vector synthesis without the 2-dimensional vector envelope). I would think the same thing could be accomplished in Kontakt by using groups, or possibly putting each waveform in its own instrument and using a step sequencer or flexible envelope with beat-based time values in each instrument to offset the timing and create a tempo-synced crossfade between multiple layers.

That E-mu X PDF is pretty interesting, though - some very good ideas in there. The one about using sample loop offset to generate realtime pulse width modulation with a sampled square wave was one of those "why didn't I think of that?" moments.

[MitchK1989]

My main sampler now is Kontakt. At least it does not crash as often as Emu-X. However, I still cannot do some things with it that I can with Emu-X, like wavetable synthesis.

That kind of piqued my curiosity, thinking that maybe E-mu X actually had a full-blown facility on-board for creating custom PPG-style wavetables. I was skimming through the E-mu X Advanced Applitions PDF, and in the section on creating wavetable effects, it looked like it was basically just crossfading between layers with different waveforms loaded into them, under LFO and envelope control (which is a bit like vector synthesis without the 2-dimensional vector envelope). I would think the same thing could be accomplished in Kontakt by using groups, or possibly putting each waveform in its own instrument and using a step sequencer or flexible envelope with beat-based time values in each instrument to offset the timing and create a tempo-synced crossfade between multiple layers.

That E-mu X PDF is pretty interesting, though - some very good ideas in there. The one about using sample loop offset to generate realtime pulse width modulation with a sampled square wave was one of those "why didn't I think of that?" moments.

Or you could try linplug ChronoX. It allows you to scan through a sampled sound as if it were a wavetable. Or virsyn's poseidon (let's you resynthesize any sound into a wavetable)

[DevonB]

The core product needs alot of usability enhancements. Like the fact that a new bank needs to be saved for *every song* if you alter any of the presets in the bank.

Pfft, that doesn't surprise me in the least bit. My Emu E64 sampler from 1997 had the exact same issue, and I always wished they'd just save out the meta data of my settings instead of all the samples as well. What a waste of space. Nice to see nothing has evolved. <cough cough>

Devon

[contrary]

The core product needs alot of usability enhancements. Like the fact that a new bank needs to be saved for *every song* if you alter any of the presets in the bank.

Pfft, that doesn't surprise me in the least bit. My Emu E64 sampler from 1997 had the exact same issue, and I always wished they'd just save out the meta data of my settings instead of all the samples as well. What a waste of space. Nice to see nothing has evolved. <cough cough>

Devon

You can always have a one preset bank if you tweak that preset constantly , and , after you save a new bank , get rid of the old one ... for instance , you load up a bank named violins , tweak it , then save one named violinsA
and then delete the 1st one .
I know its clunky , but you have to admit , you never have a problem with your definition/preset file getting seperated from the samples!!
( besides , it's not like were dealing with 500mb hard drives anymore!

[DevonB]

The core product needs alot of usability enhancements. Like the fact that a new bank needs to be saved for *every song* if you alter any of the presets in the bank.

Pfft, that doesn't surprise me in the least bit. My Emu E64 sampler from 1997 had the exact same issue, and I always wished they'd just save out the meta data of my settings instead of all the samples as well. What a waste of space. Nice to see nothing has evolved. <cough cough>

Devon

You can always have a one preset bank if you tweak that preset constantly , and , after you save a new bank , get rid of the old one ... for instance , you load up a bank named violins , tweak it , then save one named violinsA
and then delete the 1st one .
I know its clunky , but you have to admit , you never have a problem with your definition/preset file getting seperated from the samples!!
( besides , it's not like were dealing with 500mb hard drives anymore!

That wasn't the issue. I'd have all 16 channels with different presets loaded into each, and for every song, I'd have to save out all over again. It was nice that I had 3 2 gigabyte SCSI drives back then in 1997, but I still ahd to watch space. I thought it was a rediculous waste of hard drive space, but to your point, you are right in the fact that you never LOST a sample that way too. I wish you could turn the feature on/off at least. Oh well. I'm NEVER going back to a hardware sampler ever again.

Devon