APPENDIX E

Setting up Netscape for EPSm

Final Notes

You know EPSm is not for Net -sample use as such. Still. many of the users do have net access. So I will give some hopefully helpful tips on how to set up Netscape wich has become a popular World Wide Web browser. It is possible to use Netscape for downloading samples instead of a dedicated FTP program, besides, several Net reachable samples are available only on WWW. You may find it advantogous to set up your Netscape software. There is a lot of setup you probably already have done. You will find it convenient to define helper programs which automatically will decompress or decode files such as will have endings.gz,.sit,.hqx,.zip,.efe. It may vary how you want your netscape set up and there are many different ways. The following is only a suggestion. I assume you have Netscape v 2.01. It may be convenient to obtain the following software for helpers MacGzip, StuffitExpander with Enhancer , MacApp. You can get these programs from popular Mac archives Launch Netscape and choose from the menu Options/General Preferences./Helpers What you should do is now to define a series of file extentions/endings and tell Netscape which action to take when you download a file in Netscape. You will see a list of file extentions in the window. If.gz is not already defined, then take the following steps. Press [New.]. That brings up a dialog to fill in. Mime type and Sub type. Fill in with application and x-gnu zipped respectively. Yoy will see your new entry is in the list. Fill in extentions=gz and on the line showing application press the [Browse.] button. Then locate the MacGzip application. and press (open). Then the line has been filled in with the filetype as Gzip. That's fine. If you want that MacGzip is going to be launched automatically and decompress a file, you should check the box (o)Launch Apllication. Your new Entry in the list will then look like.
Double click on the entry.or, alternatively click on the entry and select the menu EPSfile/Edit This causes a dialog to pop up.
You can type in a new name for the instrument. You will notice that the characters you type are automatically converted to uppercase and the length limits itself to 12 characters which is the max an ASR/EPS name can have. Lets say you change the name to RATTLE NOISE. Press OK, to make the change permanent. Page 4
Similar to the above you may then fill in a few more items. Now select the card General. Uncheck the box :use internet config. Then select the card "Download".In that dialog uncheck the box reading [ ] AutoPage 49

demo 43 -A TS10 demo eu-A TS10 ????? cnfg 45 -A TS10 program smpb 46 -A TS10 sample banks EDIT 47 -A TS10 Edit to a sample. In case you are writing software that manipulates the files EPSm generates, or read them, you may want to know the specifics, but only then. If you need it it is specified below. The single files you save to a Mac disk from an image or an Ensoniq is an exact copy of the file as found on the Ensoniq device exept there is a 512 byte header attached. It is intended that some of these bytes identify the file format while others give specific info on the file. EPSm sets and assumes the following bytes. ofs 0 = $0D, ofs 1 = $0A, ofs $2F=$0D, ofs $30=$0A, ofs $31=$1A. If it is not an EU file, these bytes signals it is an EFE/EFA/EFT file. If the file contains the characters EFE1 at ofset $3E then the file is created by EPSm and an exact copy of the files directory entry is read from offset $42, otherwise the information on the file is taken from different offsets: at ofs $12 is the 12 character Ensoniq filename, at ofs $32 the filetype (byte), at ofs $34 the block file size (4 bytes, motorola long integer) , ofs $38 Pointer to 1st Block (2 bytes, but without significance) ofs $3A reserved (4 bytes used for multifile index and for filekind number). You should not use the EFE1 signature unless you copy the directory byte by byte.
Tutorial: Altering parameters directly to disk

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Tutorial: Editing an Ensoniq Wave with an external Sample Editor

APPENDIX B

Ensoniq File Types
In the file list window of EPSm you see different abreviations for file types such as INST which is easy to guess the correct meaning of. Not all are that easy. Here is a list of most abbreviations and their meaning. ShortCut OS OS16 OSa INST EFF EFFa SONG SO16 SNGa SEQ SQ16 SEQa BANK LK16 BNKa SYSX PPTR MACR MACa SUB Number Meaning - An OS file for the EPS classic -A 16+ Operating system file -An ASR10 Operating system file -Instrument file -Effects file in 16+ format -Effects file in ASR10 format -A Song File in EPS classic format -A Song file in EPS 16+ format -A Song in ASR10 format - A sequence file in EPS classic format - A Sequence file in 16+ format - A Sequence in ASR10 format - A Bank file in EPS classic format - A Bank in 16+ format (Link) - A Bank in ASR10 format - A Sysex recorder file - A Parent Ptr, used in subdirectories - A Macro file - An ASR10 macro file, (also a TS file type) -A Sub directory

EPSfile: basic operation on individual EPS/ASR file entries in an open image. Save As. Select an entry and choose SaveAs. This saves that entry to a separate file on the Mac hard disk. The file format of the separate file is the socalled.EFE file. You can make multiple continuous and discontinues file selections in the file list in the image for efficient batch operations. Use shift- and command-clicking for range settings. Page 14
backup a complete hard disk, then reformat it and restore it. That would remove all fragmentation of the hard disk. The benefit would also be that you would have the backup itself in a form where each file was individually acessible and could be retrieved individually. For restoring the complete disk you would restore the backup to a blank formatted hard disk/cartridge. Something about the rules, incase you want to use it your own way: If, during restoring, there are any files in the same file location on the disk, as originally (indicated by the log file), then the file on the disk will be deleted and the file from the backup media be added in that same file location. By file location is here meant the key of the file consisting of a series of entrynumbers for all the parent directories. The names of directories are insignificant. Files that already are on the EPS/ASR volume, but are in a file location that was empty when the bacup was done, will be left untouched. If the restore routine can not find a file on the mac hard disk which is written in the log file, you will have the option of looking for it by a standard file dialog, you could choose another file instead, you could skip that file or you cold cancel the complete restore operation. The starting point of the resulting structure of the the EPS/ASR volume is the ROOT. If the starting point at the backup no longer exist because the backup started some directories deep and these directories were later deleted - If that is the case, then the restore operation will be terminated with the message that the start can not be found. So the restore by log file always use absolute adresses on the disk. The restoring will always be exactly as deep from the ROOT as the file originally was. Banks will be valid after restoring if you back up to a cart with the same name/label as you originally had. (You will be prompted about changing the name of the current disk if different from that in the log file) [Restore.] based upon a Mac folder. This is currently the default. method A directory structure is made on the EPS/ ASR that resembles that found on the Mac. Here it is only the files relative position that matters, and there is no overwriting of files. Duplicate names are allowed. You can see what the Mac hierarcical structure is when you display it in the Finder by choosing view/by Name. You can force a particular order of the files by preceeding the filenames with numbers such as for example 02 SteinWayDirectory, or 03 Bass Guitar;. Only files that were saved by EPSm or stEPS are significant. The directory names that will be created on the EPS will be based upon those on the Mac. 02 SteinWayDirectory would be translated to STEINWAYDIRE; that is if the folder name starts with a number, then the 3 first asciis are ignored and the rest of the name is capitalized and truncated to 12 characters as required by the EPS/ASR. Text files or other files than the EFE files saved by EPSm will be ignored. The starting point of the resulting EPS structure is taken from the current working directory Page 38

How To: Check Disk

Fetch(open). This lets you put individual files into the image. A StandardFile list will show files ending in.EFE (and.EFA) ,- for the purpose of opening files created with other programs as well as other computers. The files that are saved from EPSm program can of course also be opened. EPSm will also open EUxx files.
Clear: This clears the selected EPS files in the image. (Note the files may be renumbered! unlike EPS !!) Import SFIL. etc. samplefiles. Given a sample or wave in any of the formats, the program let you import the sample as a plain vanilla instrument. The sample file formats are : SFIL -SoundDesigner type 1, TX16W - Yamaha 12 bit sampler files, SDII-Sound Designer type 2. , AIFF-Audio Interchange File Format. If you on a SCSI hard disk is in the Audiotracks directory, then the sample file will be made to an Audiotrack. Import Midi file. Given a standard midi file sequence of type 1. You can import it as an EPS classic sequence or (NEW) 16+ sequence. The 16+ and ASR will translate classic, but be aware that for all later versions and model than 16+ the O.S vers. 1.3 f there are many bugs in that translation Import ASR/16+ seq. This is a conversion from a 16+ sequence file to a sequence file for the EPS classic. When you have saved an individual sequence to hard-disk, you use this command to do the translation and place the result into the current working image. It will also open ASR-10 sequences and convert those to EPS Classic sequences. If you invoke the menu command in expert mode, then ASR sequences will be converted to 16+. Import ASR/16+ song. This is similar to above (16+ seq.) but converts a song and places the result into the current working image. It will also open an ASR-10 song and convert that to Classic. This works for ASR songs without audio tracks. If you invoke the menu command in expert mode, then ASR sequences will be converted to 16+ split/divide files. For the selected file in the image file list ,you can choose to divide a single file into two parts. See also Large instruments and multi-disks. multifile index. You can view and edit the multifile index of a file. You have to know what you are doing.See also Large instruments and multi-disks. Page 15

Wave Creator

edit. Dependent upon the file type (SEQ or INST or BANK) Will bring up a dialog giving additional information on the file. For Instruments, Sequences and Banks you can Edit the Name of the file. The dialog will also display the information on Banks and allow you to copy the info to the clipboard so that you can paste it into a word-processor. This is useful for recreating an ASR or 16+ Bank on a EPS classic, or an ASR bank on a 16+. See also Large Disks and Banks. The edit command will also be invoked by double-clicking on the entry in the list. {It could also display the complete structure of an instrument showing the layer and wavesamples in the future ? -a historical remark from feb93} exPortCan export wave samples in instruments, audiotracks or sequences and songs to non Ensoniq formats. It applies to the currently selected entry;. Choosing this menu option for instruments bring up a dialog showing a list of all the wavesamples in the instrument. It is shown which layer they belong to and the key assignment and whether the wave is a copy. You can press [copyToClip] which copies the table to Clip board and you can paste it into a document in your word processor. You can save any selection of the waves as separate files to disk. If you select more than one wave, you may x-check the [ x] Save all - Ask 1st option, then you will be asked for a filename only for the first file to be saved. This allows you to select the folder which all the rest will be saved in. The names of the other waves will be the same as the EPS name unless that name is already occupied, in which case a number is added to the name to make it unique. If all waves are named UNNAMED WS, then they will be automatically named UNNAMED WS#x where x is a number. You have the option of saving using different sample formats which can be selected from the popup menu; SFIL is the file-type of SoundDesigner type 1 files, SDII is Sound Designer II file and AIFF are Audio Interchange File Format. Many other applications can read these. If you select an Audiotrack, then you can save that as a sample file. You should use AIFF. If a sequence (marked SEQ, SQ16 or SEQa) is selected, then exPort will save the sequence as a Midi file of type 1. For songs (marked SONG, SO16,SNGa) it will save all the sequences of the song individually as Midi type 1 files. The word -seq* will be appended to the name you choose for easy identification. (So you will not be prompted for the name of each sequence, only the location of the first) In addition the songTracks will be exported and a text file describing the structure of the song. The latter just prints the information in the song steps.

number in its directory.and so on. Inspection of the example should tell you how it is.
How To: Deleting Files/Directories
The example shown started at the top of the hierarchy- at the ROOT. It can start much further down if you prefer. In that case the key is the key relative to the starting key. To get the full key you add the starting key and the individual file key shown. The [BkUpTree] button can perhaps be used by journalling or recording programs so you can press them and you can later play back for automatic back-up. But I have not tried any of those programs with EPSm Now finally back to the other option of the waiting state. Change Back Up Folder. By pressing that button you can change the folder you want to backup onto. That way the backup will be spread out over different folders. These folders can be on different hard disks, or different cartridges or different networks. When you change bacup folder,I the Log file holding the position of all the files will be automatically moved to the Desktop and it is your reponsibility to save it to where you want it filed when the backup is finished. This log should not reside on removable media neither during backup nor during restoring, for backups spread over several cartridges, but it could very well reside on a cartridge for archival purposes, and then perhaps be moved to the desktop during restoring. About the [ Restore.] command. This is for restoring what you have backed up with the [backuptree] command. If you just want to load many files fast, you can also use the [ fetch.] command. You can restore directory by directory that way. That may even be more convenient than using [ResorTree] if you decide you want to make changes to your hard disk and not restore everything as it was. The [Restore.] is for restoring all the files as they were. However the files will have no fragmentation when restored to a nonfragmented disk. There are two different options for the RestorTree command. Briefly described they are 1) Restoring a hieracical file tree based upon the log file saved during a [BackUpTree] operation. 2) Making a tree structure on the EPS/ASR hard disk that resembles the folder-tree found on the Mac hard disk. These are separately described below. [Restore.] based upon a backup log file. The text file that was saved during backup is used to restore the EPS/ASR volume. (This text file could of coarse also have been generated by another piece of software) The previous secton on backing up a tree described the structure of the text file. Using a log file will try to preserve the hierarcical position the file had when it was backed up. The most obvious use could be to Page 37

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1: INST 1:INST 13 INST dir SUB 14 INST 1: 1: 2: INST 2: INST 1: 1: 2: INST 2: INST 2: INST 1: 1: 2: INST 1: 1: 2: INST 1: 1: 2: 8 dir SUB dir SUB dir SUB dir SUB dir SUB 3 dir SUB dir SUB dir SUB 1: SEQa 3: 1: 1: 1: SEQa 3: 1: 1: 1: 2
How To: Automatically Adding File Images to Disk Images
10 NOW QUEEN -625152 1: 1: Floppy -for reading and writing floppies with the SuperDrive

Find Utility

11 TACK BELL -625152 1: 1: 1:TOASTED -625152 1: 1: 1:FX -617984 1: 1: WINDOW SMASH -TICKING --331 -4 -4 -4 ---4 -338 -4 -1: 1: 1: 1: 1: 1:
03 PLATE SMASH 04 CANNON -4

2561024 2561024

05 FAST STOP -NIGHT TRAIN 07 HORSE SNORT 08 HORSE WHINNE 05 MY SOUNDS 06 BANKS -FACTORY BNKS 02 MY BANKS -SEQUENCES 01 FACTORY SEQS 01 BEATS -ROCK -ROCK-1 4TH 02 ROCK-1 8TH
Read EPS/ASR/TS floppy. You normally use a B10 floppy disk for this for EPS/16+data. For ASR data usually COMPUTER format floppy while for TS10/12 data you usualloy use a TSB10 floppy. You are asked to put in the floppy. All the contents on the floppy is saved in an image file. When a B10 floppy is inserted, your choices are EPS2 or B10i. B10i is for archiving only (not for workbench) If you save it as an EPS2 image file then that also becomes the active image in the image file list. The format will be ASRc if you have inserted an ASR DD COMPUTER format floppy and ASRC if you have inserted an ASR HD COMPUTER format floppy. If you insert a TSB10 the format will be TSD2. (Ensoniq formatted floppies can only be read on a few Mac models and their use are only justified for your old floppies. !!!!!) Write image to floppy. Takes the current image and writes that to a formatted floppy. Writes the current image if this is of type EPS2, GKH , EPSi ASRc, ASRC, TSD2 and tsd2 (EPS2 is faster and requires less memory than EPSi and GKH) The floppy type has to match the image type. See section what is an image. get B10i, write to floppy. Let you open a B10i image from your archive and write the information to a regular EPS formatted floppy. EPS disk cataloging. This let you register all your floppies into a data base. You input Ensoniq formatted floppies in the SuperDrive. The information on the floppy is saved into a text which you later can import to your favourite data base program. I provide two different formats - see section on database formats. You should be able to import one of these to your database program. The menu option is also useful for seeing what is on some of those unlabelled floppies you have laying around. For the case of viewing only, you may want to uncheck the save to txt file option in the change setup DB prefs dialog (acessible from EPS disk cataloging.). Format ASR-10. Let you format a DD (Double Density) or a HD (High Density) floppy to be used with an ASR-10. The format will be what the ASR calls COMPUTER format. Format TS-10 (DD). This is supposed to work on future versions of the TS-10 operating system if that will happen. Currently it can not be used and should be left unactivated. Page 17

Ensoniq CD-ROM's on ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM Drives
EPS-SCSI - for manipulating files on an EPS/ASR formatted SCSI drive connected to your Mac connect. You connect to the currently selected SCSI drive, and a file window appears showing the EPS/ASR drives content. You can save files to and retrieve files from the SCSI drive by pressing dialog buttons or keyboard equivalents or popupmenus. These are descibed in a later special section on SCSI. You move down in the directory tree by double clicking on sub directories, SUB You move up in the folder hierarchy by double clicking on parent pointers PPTR There are 3 popupmenus at the top of the dlg for menu selections and navigation. The following keyboard shortcuts buttons and menu choices apply. -F=(Fetch): Mac-file ->EPS-SCSI -S=(Save): EPS-SCSI->Mac-file -B= (Clear): Clear the selected entry(ies). +Shift will also remove contents of subfolders (Move) Move the selected entries from the directory where you select them to the directory where you press (ToHere). Pressing (Cancel), cancels. (BkUpTree.) Save the complete hierarchy of files into folders on a Mac disk. (Restore.) Restore what is backed up. or a Mac tree.See later section for details (NewDir.) Make a new subdirectory -G: Get the selected files in an open image into current directory of SCSI drive. -L: List all the files at present and deeper levels in the directory hierarchy.; to text file -E: Edit file name, or contents of banks -P: exPort individual samples as AIFF/SDII/SFIL or sequences as Midi -I: Info on the SCSI drive such as capacity and Label which can be edited. -C: Copy - the hierarcical key of the selected instrument is copied as Midi and text -W Close the window and return to the normal working environment of EPSm ESCAPE: Same as above -Q:Quit the program menu Import SFIL/SDII/AIFF import samples to EPS instruments menu Export. samples in insts to AIFF/SFIL/SDII formats, or seqs to Midi menu +special+. for experts or power users or in case of emergency You can also navigate by the two popup menus at the top of the SCSI Page 19
dialog. The [goto] lets you save frequently used directories. While the central one take you to any in the current hierarcical tree.
Set SCSI ID. You select the ID (SCSI number) of the SCSI device you want to access. Reset To be used in between changing cartridges. Eject For ejecting EPS CD-ROMs as these can not be ejected by the drive front button Format Device: High level formatting of EPS/ASR hard disks and cartridges. Previously Mac formatted or Ensoniq formatted media can be used. Apple menu -Two menu items are placed here by EPSm About EPSm.As usual , shows the version number Register EPSm For entering the registry number. The name field in the dialog is optional. If you have already registered, you can get the registration dialogue only by first pressing the Shift key and holding it while selecting the menu.

The TSB10 floppy is for writing TS10 data files with a TS10/12 when these files are meant to be read with a Macs SuperDrive, and really only for that. TSB10 floppy is DD (Double Density) while TSB20 is HD. The TSB10 floppy is a special floppy and similar to the B10 floppy described in the last section. In the electronic EPSm shipment package there is included a program for the IBM-PC which will allow you to make a master TSB10 floppy. The procedure to make your own is very similar to that for B10 and will thus not be repeated here Put the program (MakeTSB10.EXE in the TS10 folder in the EPSm folder) on the PC hard disk and start it by typing its name at the DOS prompt. I assume there is a 3.5 inch drive in position A: on the PC. Put a TS10 formatted DD floppy into the drive. Then just press M) for M)ake It!. You will be prompted for the drive letter of your TS10 floppy. Enter A: (or a:). Then the program will start and the process should take less than half a minute. You can make as many copies of this as you want with the COPY FLOPPY COMAND of the TS10. You only need one or two working copies of this disk and they will last a long time. You dont need many since you can just delete the content when you have transferred the files you want to your Mac. That is, if you use the TSB10 as a transfer media. There is also a program to make a similar floppy but from HD floppies. Those floppies are called TSB20 and the program MkTSB20.exe.
the directory. The supplied Claris Works database let you sort the data base by diskrefnum and by category. So here is that structure: DiskReferenceNum, tab, FloppyName,tab,DiskLBL, tab, Disk Comments, tab, FileName, tab, FileKind, tab, FileBlockSize,tab, MutiFileIndex, tab, tab, tab, return DiskReferenceNum, tab, FloppyName,tab,DiskLBL, tab, Disk Comments, tab, FileName, tab, FileKind, tab, FileBlockSize,tab,MutiFileIndex,tab, tab, tab, return DiskReferenceNum, tab, FloppyName,tab,DiskLBL, tab, Disk Comments, tab, FileName, tab, FileKind, tab, FileBlockSize, tab,MutiFileIndex,tab, tab, tab, return You see that this is less space efficient than format 1.
How To: Copying Ensoniq Files from SCSI Drive to Computer
Floppy Data Base; using Clarisworks with EPSm generated databases How you get new records into the database is the same for the two formats, you just have to open the database for the right format type to begin with. You find the two templates for setting up databases and macros for sorting them in the electronic package for EPSm. EPSm will generate a text file for you. This you import to Claris Works word-processor. You then Select All( -A) and Copy ( C). You then switch to the Database and pick the layout called importfromEPSm which you also select by ( -1). You then just paste the text in ( -V) Now there will appear new records in your database. For format 1 there are two layouts worked out (well you may want to add more entries-up to 39, I got bored when I came to 15) The importfromEPSm layout functions as a general purpose layout. In addition there is a Floppy Label Format. ( -2). You may have to adjust this to make it to work with your labels. After you have copied records into the database of format 2 there are many ways you may find useful for sorting or searching the data. Two additional layouts and associated macros are supplied. You have to load the macros into ClarisWorks. If you want to list all samples and sounds on a floppy together then you use the macro. ( -[opt]-2). The same data base can also be sorted by category. ( -[opt]-3). You can fill in the category field with instrument type such as PERC, DRUMS, BASS. Floppy Data Base; Using FileMaker Pro with EPSm generated databases There are ready made templates for format 1 and 2. They should have written instructions in them.

Large instruments and multi disk files
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EPSm-SCSI descriptions

This describes the operation of EPSm with an Ensoniq formatted Hard disk, Page 31
all your EPS floppies. What is done is that EPSm will write the floppy info like directory to a text file. You insert a floppy one at a time and the floppy info is added to the text file. You then import the text file to your favourite Data Base Program. In the EPSm package is included databases for ClarisWorks version 1 and 2 and for FileMaker Pro. Here is described the format(s) of the text files so that you can set up your own database easily. If you have none of these packages, then a look at the screenshots of the datbases will give you an idea. Data Base Format Here is presented the format of the text file that EPSm makes for your floppies. The electronic package of EPSm also includes DataBases for Claris Works, which I dont like myself - but it is what I have, and it is bundled with every new Mac. You can import the text files into these databases by importing the text file to ClarisWorks, Select All and Copy in the word-processor. Then you switch over to the database. Be sure to have the format you want selected, You then select the Layout for import from EPSm by pressing command-1, and then you choose Paste and all the new records should appear in your database. Format 1. Writes out all the information in the directory. A directory can contain 39 entries. If there are less than this, then empty fields are skipped. The last record is followed by carriage return and every field in the record is tab delimitated. All fields are represented by ASCII Now here is the structure: DiskReferenceNum, tab, FloppyName,tab, FreeBlocks, tab, DiskLabel, tab, Disk Comments,tab, FileName, tab, FileKind, tab, FileBlockSize,tab, MutiFileIndex, tab, tab, tab, FileName, tab, FileKind, tab, FileBlockSize,tab, MutiFileIndex, tab, tab, tab, FileName, tab, FileKind, tab, FileBlockSize,tab, MutiFileIndex, tab, tab, tab,.. return You see the last lines contain no information in between the 3 last tabs. These fields you can fill out in your database program with for example Category and Comments. The supplied Claris Work database is like that. Clarisworks terminates a record by a carriage return.

O. Transfer files from image with bank to SCSI hard disk. Transferring files from an image to a SCSI drive can be convenient with EPSm. You can transfer all files in the image to the same directory or to
First of all, when you press OK, the changes you have made will be written to the image. So note it will be written even if you choose cancel to exit the bank statement itself. If the Empty check-box is marked/checked, one can not edit any fields. You can make a new bank entry from scratch by unchecking that one. When the copy box is checked it means the instrument in the track is a copy of another instrument. So you can then not edit the Disklabel and Device has no independent meaning and can not be changed. The device is a popup menu where you can select floppy or which SCSI ID the hard disk with the instrument has. The device is part of the reference which tells the EPS which instrument to load. The file reference , labelled File#, which are in the dialog are digits separated (for subdirectories) by colons:. This file reference is a key to the file as described above in the previous paragraph. So the File# reference is organized the same way as how you would select the file by a series of Midi program change commands, (The complete reference to a file as found in the bank file consist of Device ID, File # and Disk Label). The Volume and Pan entries are just edit text fields. For
many instruments the panning shows WS, you can set that value/state by entering 0, zero. The bus setting is shown by a PopUpControl. The doAll check-box need special mention. This is for setting all file references in the bank statement to the same except the last filenumber in the reference. Lets give an example; You have a bank where all instruments resides on a floppy with no subdirectories. The bank statement then shows instrument names, but the file key as seen in the Bank editor is a single number. Let us assume the label is DISK001. You want to move all the instrument files + the song over to a hard disk -SQST004" and into a directory with key 10:4. Then you double-click any instrument in the bank statement to open the bank editor. The instrument you opened had say filenumber 2. You would then edit the file to 10:4:2 and the disk-label to SQST004 and the device to SCSI5. Now if you have checked doAll you will copy part of the reference to all other instruments when you press (OK). {If you press (Cancel), nothing happens.} You will see that the DiskLBL SQST004 appears on all tracks, and the File fields all look like 10:4:n where n represents the last digit of the File # file key. That digit is the same number as the filenumber in the floppy image. So if you move all files over to the hard disk in the same order as they appear on the floppy, the bank will be intact.

SCSI removable media When working with removable media like Syquests, it is possible to use the same drive for Mac and EPS./ASR all connected to the same SCSI chain. You can just put in the appropriate cartridges when you need them. With the carts that comes with the Syquest, it is an advantage to not mount the Mac cartridge at startup. You can use the utility SCSIProbe-3.5sq to mount Mac cartridges after boot. It usually comes with the Syquest cartridges. You can have an EPS cartridge in the drive or no cartridge in the drive when booting up. When the ASR/EPS power is turned on, I usually have not encountered problems. I then have an ASR/EPS cart in the drive. After booting, you can change carts as you like. You can use the utility UnMountIt to unmount Mac cartridges. Some people prefer to use swittching boxes to switch a drive between the Mac and ASR/EPS. Expert mode There are instances where the program is restrictive in order to protect the user. This usually amounts to checking files and floppies and if they are outside what the program should handle the program bails out or you are not allowed to open a file. In some instances an expert mode may be invoked allowing you to bypass this checking, but then at your own risk. You invoke he expert mode of an operation by holding down the shift key while selecting the menu option. The operations affected by this will change much with the EPSm version. From version 121, it allows opening of any file as an image, or writing to any kind of floppy. HD floppies/images EPSm does not provide an option for creating HD images, because it is simply not a good idea to use them as a work bench. They take too much hard disk space, require much memory and it will overall take longer to work on it. If you think you must, you can of coarse use them. You can read ASR COMPUTER formatted HD floppies. If you read a blank one, you have created an empty image. You could duplicate this image from the Finder every time you wanted a new image. But, again, it is not recomended. This recommendation concerns HD floppies as a work bench, not HD floppies in general. Ensoniq sequencers The Ensoniq sequencers are extremely buggy. Lots of small things. The ASR converts EPS classic sequences incorrect. At least up to OS 3.53. The EPS16+ converts EPS classic sequences incorrect. The OS versions before 1.3 are better. In most of these cases the sequences will play back OK, but you may get in trouble if you edit them. Also on the ASR, there will be errors if you try to loop sequences. EPSm converts Midi sequences to EPS classic. It leaves it to the respective OS to convert to the other samplers native for-

SOME EXAMPLES

of tasks you may want to do and how to do it A. Preparing sequences on Mac for your EPS to play at your gig.
1. Make the sequence with your favourite Mac sequencer. Use only 8 tracks. Which midi channels you use are unimportant; the ordering of tracks is what matters. It determines on which EPS tracks the results will appear on. 2. Save your sequence as a midi file type 1, call it perhaps mySEQ 3. Launch EPSm, 4. Choose: Image/New., EPS2 , Transfer image 5. Choose: EPSfile/Import midifile., (open), mySEQ 6. Choose: Floppy/ Write Image to EPS floppy. 7. Put in a formatted EPS floppy in the drive. 8. Take the floppy to your EPS, load the sequence and play it. You may choose to save the sequence to a freshly formatted EPS floppy with other instruments you need for the sequence. The next time you perform task A. you can replace point 3 and 4, by 3b Double click on Transfer Image 4b Select mySEQ, Choose: EPSfile/Clear to delete an old entry. There are a few options for the conversion available. You set these options by pressing the button (change setup) in the dialog appearing in 5.) above. You may suppress the writing of poly aftertouch and mono pressure or program changes. If you want your tracks on the EPS to appear in a different order than in the midi sequence you can do that. Say you have made a midi seq with only two tracks; bass and drums. You want these on EPS tracks 7 and 8. You can accomplish this without making dummy tracks if you set the setup dialog as follows (and check the box: [x] use below track map ) Midi Track 5 6.. EPS track x x x x If you have recorded your sequence with tempo changes and want your EPS to reflect these, then you can check the [x ] pseudo tempo changes option in the setup dialog. This will be similar to recording the tracks with your EPS with the Mac sequencer playing it back. Note that the settings of the setup dialog can be made permanent only by pressing (make permanent). Pressing (OK) only changes them temporarily for the very next file you import. Pressing (make permanent) will create EPSmPrefs in the preferences folder inside the system folder.
compatible with PKZIP for the PC. Unzip the file on a Mac by a) Stuffit Expander with Enhancers or b) Unzip Once unzipped the file format could be anything and you would have to look at the new extention to make a guess.gz The file is GNU compressed. Uncompress the file on a Mac by a) Stuffit Expander with Enhancers or b) MacGzip Once unzipped the file can be anything as with *.zip Unix compression is used. Uncompress the file on a Mac by a) Stuffit Expander with Enhancers or b) MacGzip c) MacCompress - This needs to be set up, every time! Tricky! A GKH image like file. Open by EPSm : Image/Open. Write content to floppies, Ensoniq SCSI or single instrument file on a Mac drive.

File Extensions

Below is a table showing file extentions, their most likely format and what you need to do to the file. *.zip The file is zipped. Probably, but not nessecarily by a utility that is
(at your EPS). Launch EPSm. Choose Floppy/Read EPS floppy., EPS2, macros Select all the entries in the image by shift clicking. Choose EPSfiles/SaveAs. For each file you will be prompted for a name Quit EPSm and use your favourite hex editor to look at (and modify) the files.
The EFE format places a 512 byte header in front of the EPS file. D. Send an EPS instrument by email to a mac friend that also has EPSm This should only be used for short and emergency samples, otherwise it is too costly and surface mail is a better alternative I think. 1. Assume you have made the instrument on your EPS. 2. Make a fresh copy of a B10 disk by pressing [com][system]<copy floppy> on your EPS. 3. Save the instrument on the new B10 copy. (use a new to save space on compression) 4. Launch EPSm 5. Choose Floppy/Read EPS floppy. B10i, save as to my friend 6. Quit EPSm, compress to my friend. Stuffit Lite is recommended for compression. 7. Attach the document to an email letter. (Users of other computers than mac/ibm could also benefit from this B10 format since it is very easy to implement. However may not presently be implemented. Any platform that can read and write a raw image can write the EPS2 format to disk though) As for many things with EPSm, there are several ways to accomplish the same.Two Mac owners could share work by any of the formats EPSm supports. The most convenient ones would be B10i, or EPS2, or ASRc or EFE. E. Upload samples to an ftp-site (NEW) This describe procedures used for the eps -mailing lists ftp site. This may not always be operational. Other ftp sites do follow the same rules, some dont. Here is described uploads in gkh format and compression with gnu zip; still, the details can vary vastly depending upon personal preferences/circumstances.
1. You have made the instruments and songs on your EPS. (It is best , but not absolutely necessary , to keep any single instrument as well as the total instrument size less than 1245 blocks for sys 6 mac users and less than 1000 blocks for those with an unexpanded EPS) 2. Save, with EPS, the instruments to your working copy of the B10 floppy. I assume it is the complete content of this you want to upload. 3. Launch EPSm. 4. Choose: Floppy/Read EPS floppy. EPS2, name it myupload 5. Choose Image/info and fill in the author and subject field. Press OK 6. Select Morph/EPS2->gkh, accept default name myupload.gkh This creates a.gkh image and a ready template to mail to the mailinglist: myupload.txt 7. Quit EPSm and Launch MacGzip (or your favourite unix gnu compressor), Here is assumed MacGzip 0.2. Mark the options in the menu gzip/binary and gzip/compress. Select File/Preferences and choose gzip suffix:.gz; Compression level: 9; then select File/Open., and select myupload.gkh. This creates the file myupload.gkh.gz, 8. Launch your favourite word processor that also allow you to save the text unix style. Write a short note on the content of the upload. Save as "myupload.txt 9. Launch XferIt (or your favourite ftp application). 10. In XferIt choose File/New Connection and fill in the fields and press OK 11. The directories at the ftp site will appear at your desktop. Navigate to ****incoming/ Take a note of the mailing address to which you are requested to notify about your upload. 12. Choose Transfer As/ Binary and drag myupload.gkh.gz over into the pub2/eps/incoming window. 13. Choose Transfer As/ Text and drag myupload.txt over into the pub2/eps/incoming window. 14. Launch your mailing program. And tell what you have uploaded to the ftp site administrator. (Use notes from pt. 11) 15. Send a note to the mailing list. You may just edit a little the note generated in Pt. 6. If you have an ASR rather than EPS you have another alternative to the above. In 2) you may save the instrument to a DD COMPUTER format floppy, so you get ASRc in 4) and use Morph ASRc->gkh in 6). As a courtesy you should still try to observe the sizes mentioned in 1) F. Download samples from an ftp- or web- site (-general)