Message 6/8
Date: 11-Aug-00 @ 10:37 PM -
RE: E6400 and EOS-Link
Hi,
No, that's not true. If you 'Ultracize' your E6400, you have access to all of the features of the regular Ultras including Beat-Munging. There are some models which can not be Ultracized, only have their cpu ram upgraded to support EOS 4. I believe that models that cannot be Ultracized are the e-64, the very original first EIV and the E4K.
In terms of Ultracizing, it is expensive (I think it is about $1000 US or so) but you get a faster interface, support for Beat Munging as well as better midi timing. Only you can decide if it's worth it.
In regards to EOS Link, don't waste your time. It really doesn't give you what you're looking for. I don't think that any software will give you what you're looking for. E-mu's file system is completely proprietary so, at best, you can store samples by doing SMDI dumps. That won't store presets though. There are a few pieces of Mac software but I don't know if they'll allow you to do what you want exactly.
Considering that you can load up 128 MB of RAM in it, a Zip would be too slow for this. You'd be better off to get a big internal hard drive. IDE works fine but you will not be able to use your computer to make backups since you won't have access to the IDE bus inside the sampler. If you have a Jaz drive or something similar it may be okay because then you can transfer the samples that you want to back up from the IDE drive into the Jaz drive.
HTH
fvicente