You select files from the top box and press Add to make the file appear in the lower box. Those files that appear in the lower part are the files you will import. So get all the files you want to appear in the lower box. In the present example you should make elephant.w07 and horse.w02 both appear in the lower box. When that is done, just press Done. After a while you will see new file names appearing in the file list of the image. You can edit the file names if you wish by the EPSfile/Edit. menu. You can transfer the converted samples to an EPS if you choose Floppy/ write image to floppy. You are then asked to put in an Ensoniq formatted DD floppy in the SuperDrive. Do that. You can then take the floppy to your sampler and load the instruments. Page 6
Make new entries as needed, dbl. clk to edit/change Then launch MacGzip and choose from the menu.File/PreferencesThen set the gzip suffix to.gz and compression level to 9 {not needed} I check "[x] Quit when done". Then check the menu items gzip/binary and gzip/uncompress When you have set this up you can FTP download as described below. It is Page 47
Tutorial - Building a directory & saving files to Ensoniq SCSI Drive

APPENDIX C

Ensoniq Floppies and Macs
The Mac, as a computer family, can NOT read Ensoniq floppies. Here's why. Much of what have been said about the subject have been said by people having IBM PC's. Much of what have been said is also wrong. Ensoniq floppies for the EPS, the 16+ and a couple other Ensoniq synths are formatted somewhat special. The low level format is called MFM. Basically the same system is used on IBM PC computers. However the Ensoniq floppies have 10 sectors in each track on each side of the floppy. Now the IBM variety, which a Mac with a SuperDrive also can use has 9 tracks. The Mac can read a number of disk formats. Mac DD disks can be formatted as double sided 800 K SCR or single sided 400 K. These formats use a varying number of sectors pr. track to keep the bit density more even. These formats use a completely different system for identifying tracks and sectors. A Mac with a SuperDrive can also access the 720 K MFM IBM type floppies. However the formats the Mac uses are hard-coded into the Mac ROM and programmers do not have any parameters or tables to vary. There are no hooks to the file access routines that can be used for the purpose of reading Ensoniq floppies by a Mac. All Macs I have tried (prior to AV and PowerPC) crash if you insert an EPS floppy in the SuperDrive in 32 bit addressing mode. That is clearly a bug in the Mac. Some Macs have problems with their ROMS not being 32 bit clean(my claim). These problems are separate from the inability to acess 10 tracks. Some new Macs can be made to read Ensoniq floppies. They can not write this back to a floppy however. The Macs having this capability include Centris/Quadra 610, 650, Performa /LC 475, 550, 575, 630, and Performa 5200, 6200. Some other new Macs will tell the program they have the capability of reading Ensoniq floppies, but will fail to do it. Those that will fail are Quadra 950, Quadra 840A/ V, 6100, 7100, 7200, 8100.

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
ing every tenth block from the image. So it is an image as viewed by the Mac. B10i was intended for easy archive purposes. It was recommended for such since it is very robust and easy to implement and is not likely to change, so it will likely be possible to support this for a long time. You may not use this if you are new to EPSm and you only use a Mac. This cheerful guy is the icon for an image in.gkhformat. This format has been used extensively by the EPS mailing list for exchanging samples. It was the official format of the EPS-mailing-list. You should use only this format for uploads to their ftp site. As there are very many pitfalls involved in uploads, the capability of uploading this format is only granted after you obtain the mailing lists equivalent of the black belt. of a high degree (EPSm :-). The gkh format consists of a header giving details on its contents followed by all the data on an EPS floppy disk and then normally followed by readable comments about the author of the samples and comments on the samples themselves. EPSm will read this format and you can operate on individual files. You should however regard this format as reserved for uploads and not for general use. You may not be allowed to edit the comment fields on images written by other applications in this format You may often not notice, but EPSm uses specific code for each (image)format. The gkh format is connected to the 800 kB DD EPS/ASR floppy disk only. No other sizes!! This is an image of a DD floppy formatted by an ASR-10 sampler (ASRc). The size is 720 K. The image name may make sense as ASR-10 small size computer format. The ASR can format a floppy in so called ENSONIQ format or COMPUTER format. The ASRc uses the latter. The ENSONIQ format is 800 kB and identical to an EPS floppy, while the COMPUTER format can not be read by an EPS or EPS16+. So the EPS can not use floppies made from ASRc. This is an image of a HD floppy formatted by an ASR-10 sampler (ASRC). The size is 1440 K. (ASR-10 capital size Computer format) This image is not recommended to be used as a workbench. The smaller sizes; ASRc and EPS2, are recommended instead.

How To: Testing Files

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About the [ Clear ] command alias ( -B).command This is just for ereasing the selected files. You will have a chance to change your mind in case this command is invoked by error. You can as usual select discontinous or continous ranges of files. This is not undoable!. If you select a menu which is not empty, then this command will nor erease the subdirectory. If however the command is invoked in expert mode (by holding the SHIFT Key), then the directories will be ersased. The while underlying tree will then be erased. Not undoable. About the ( -C).command Pressing this keyboard combination will cause the Midicomands nessecary to load the first currently selected file to be placed on the clopboard. The format is compatible with Vision, so you can switch to Vision and then paste the Midi commands right into the sequence. It requeres that Macro 11 brings you to the ROOT directory. About the (Shift -C).command Pressing this keyboard combination after selecteing a file in the SCSI browser causes The information on the file to be copied to the clipboard in a format that is compatible with the format the Cmd-L command saves in for datasbases. Thus you can paste in information for one single file, if your database allows. About the menu-commands +special+. The items under these menu are truly special, and you will only use them if you are an expert. menu +special + / Try to Salvage Damaged (File) This will try to salvage a damaged file. First the selected file in the directory is analyzed in terms of its recoverability. If it is evaluated fair, you will be given the option to save the file to the Mac hard disk. Currently the file on the EPS hard disk is unchanged. You may try to use this feature when the ASR/EPS gives a message like file operation error or something similar, when the file at one time actually was OK.
How To: Working with TS-type files and disks
Operating Instructions (the menu).

Unformatter

Alternatives to this section are: 1) Figure it out yourself. 2) See the example tasks section; 3) see good to know comments 4) other specific sections. To the first time user: See the section EPSm a first look/test drive first. The following survey of the menus is meant to be helpful. The headings are organized such that the main menu comes first then the sub-menus within that menu. Control Quit: Simply quits the program. The changes you have made to an image are already stored. Prefs: Sets some preferences. These have been set up with defaults. You should not have to invoke the submenus. They need further discussion in any case MidiSeq Import. Brings up a dialog with parameters used when importing Midi sequences. See section Some Examples. A) for more details Mod/Macro load. Setting parameters for the Macro and timedelay of the Midicommands that will load an instrument in a Mac sequencer. See section Some Examples P. Load Instruments from Hard disk in a Vision Sequence for more info. SCSI bufsize-pref. You should not need to set these parameters,but you can. The buffer size used have some influence on the speed. The larger the buffer the faster the operations. However, some Macs have a flaw making them crash if your hard disk is too slow. For a Syquest 88 I use both buffers at 9216, while on one (faulty?) EZdrive, I set the read buffer at 4608. ImageFile New. Creates a new empty image. You can create the formats EPSi, EPS2 and ASRc. EPS2 should be used if you want to transfer it to your EPS and EPSi is for communication with other eps-non-mac users. ASRc is strictly for the ASR-10. By holding the [shift]-key while invoking the menu, you invoke it in expert mode; You may then choose other, non-recommended image types Page 13

(= the displayed EPS directory).This restore option is a relative safe way to add a backed up partial tree.
How To: Editing Sample Rate
So restoring by Mac folder is relative. It uses relative adresses from the Sub directory you are in when you start the restore. It is relatively safe to use, since it will never over write files. There is no guarantee that banks are still valid when you have restored. THe disk label is never changed. About the ( -L) command There is also a popup menu for this. It lets you list the directories of your eps hard disk to a text file. Im uncertain what would be a desirable/better format though. Suggestion? About the ( -E) command. There is also a popup menu for this. It lets you edit the name of files on your hard disk. Not all file types are currently editable. Subdirectories, Instruments, Banks and Sequences are. The operation is as with editing names for images. About the ( -G) command. Pressing this keyboard combination will cause the currently selected files in the image if there is one open, to be copied to the directory you are currently working on in the SCSI window. About the menu-command import / AIFF, SDII,SFIL. This will open a file type of type AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) and make an instrument that contain that sample. It will then put that instrument on your EPS hard disk. If you are in directory 38 from the ROOT level, the AIFF file will be converted to an audio track. Only mono files are used. About the menu-command exPort. This is just like the exPort command for images: You can save the individual waves of an instrument as sample files of type AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) or Sound Designer type 1 or Sound Designer II. The command applies to the selected entry. If it is an ASR or 16+ sequence, the sequence will be saved as a type 1 Midi file. If it is an ASR or 16+ song, then the individual sequences will be saved as type 1 Midi files. For Audio tracks you can export them as AIFF sample files. 44.1 kHz sample rate is assumed for Audio tracks. Page 39
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.

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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

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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

How To: Converting Ensoniq Wave(s) to.WAV/AIFF file(s)

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How To: Converting.WAV/AIFF files to Ensoniq format
entries or SUB (Sub directory) entries. When you have reached the directory where you want to move the files/subs you hit the button : [ ToHere ] (and it changes to [move] again). Remember that you can always see what is the current directory on the top of the file list. Whle you are in the move - mode you will also see a checkbox labelled [ ] updt banks. If you check this before pressing [ ToHere ] then the program will, after the move is completed, go throgh the complete hard disk looking for banks. If any of the files that got moved are referenced in a bank, then the bank reference in the bank will be changed to that of the files new location. There may be situations where you dont want these updates to occurr. About the [ BkUpTree ] command. You can save individual files or ranges of files with the [ save.] command. However [save.] do not save files beyond the current working directory. The [ BkUpTree ] on the other hand saves all files (from EPS-SCSI to a Mac-SCSI or a Network drive.) in the current working directory and below in the hierarchy. All filenames will be derived from those on the EPS hard disk and Mac folders are created automatically and files are put into them. The format used for both Save and BkUpTree is the.EFE format. The BkUpTree may have different usage: Partial backup or a full backup of a hard disk. The backup itself can be used as an archive. The destination for the backup could either be a single folder on a disk holding all of the backuped files, or the backup could be spread out over several disks. You choose these options shortly after pressing the BkUpTree button. If you for instance want to save all the sequences you have, you navigate to the SEQUENCES directory (or whatever) and press [BkUpTree] Then a dialog appears asking you in which mac folder you want to save the tree. (You can make a new folder, but the name must be unique. It is a good idea with some of these system-extensions that allow you to create new folders directly from the standard file dialog) Again, it is not which folder you may have selected in the list but which folder is the current working directory that matters. You hit [save] or [cancel]. If you have sufficient hard disk space on your Mac to hold all the files in the hierarchy , then the command will write all the files. It will not fill up the Mac hard disk more than to a certain limit. This limit you can set yourself. The program will ask you to enter that limit after you have selected the folder. When you have reached that limit during backup, the program goes into a waiting state. You have several options during the waiting state: cancel, change backupfolder or just wait for the backupfolder to be emptied. We discuss the last option first. When EPSm comes to the waiting state it first Page 34

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.

Putting large files in Images
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Floppy Data Base

EPSm can help in preparing a DataBase for your floppies. makes for your floppies. - see the section called SOME EXAMPLES: F Make a database of Page 29
How To: Copying Floppies to Computer (Disk Images)
Assume you have setup ASR/EPS in multimode and base channel is 1. Then instrument /track3 will respond to Midi commands on Midi channel 3. Assume the vision track is a single channel and records and transmits on Midi channel 3. You can load an instrument into the ASR by a series of Midi program changes. This requires that there already is an instrument in that Track/ Instrument posistion. Further in order to load a sound you need to know which directory you are in. It is thus easiest to take all starts from the ROOT level. Thus there are a few handy prepaations you should consider. 1. Make a (possibly new Macro file) by going to the root directory. Save that position as Macro number 11. 2. Make 8 Midi instruments, save everything as a bank and save the bank as the first file in a new directory. Then save that location as Macro 12. 3. Save the Macrofile, after filling in some other of your favourites. Now everytime you boot yor ASR/EPS you should load that Macro file. 4. For preparing your ASR, you invoke Macro 12 and press enter to load all the Midi instruments. Your ASR is ready for sequencer communication work. Now we can enter the piano patch. 1. Navigate in EPSm to the piano you want. Select it, press cmd-C. (Copy) 2. Press ESC and switch to Vision 3. Place the cursor in the track and press cmd-V.(paste) That will paste in program changes which will load the piano into track 3 when the sequence start. For the next instrument you switch to EPSm, press cmd-H (hard disk) and r e p e a t The patch change commands need to be separated in time, so the channels should load instruments sequentially, not in paralell. The time needed depends on size and on your drive. There are a few options you can setup if you want to. These are acessed from the menu Control:Prefs:Midi|Macroload-prefs The delay time between each program change command is stored as number of clock pulses (default Page 28
told by the program that there is not enough free space in the image, and you have the option to rename the file (= that is the same as just doing a file conversion and not puttting the result into an image) or to split the file up into a multidisk file. The first part will be placed in the current image, and the second will be left on the hard disk with a name of your choice. A files second part can be split many times, but only into two parts each time and only the second can be split further. You also have the option of cancelling the fetch or import.

Others have not been tested. temporary files EPSm uses temporary files for some of its operations (such as imports). These files will have a name something like $temp-12538.EFE. You can EPSfile/Fetch this into another image, or you can delete it yourself from the Finder, after quitting EPSm if it by accident was left on your hard disk. They should be placed in the temporary folder in the system folder, the content of which should be emptied regularly by the system. names of imported files When importing a SoundDesigner 1 sample-file EPSm generates the name automatically. This is taken from the name which is a part of the header of the sample file. Some programs dont use that name and the name comes up as UNTITLED. You can then edit it yourself. SCSI connection to ASR/EPS - updates When you work on an EPS-SCSI device with both EPSm and the EPS/ASR, then be aware that neither EPSm nor the sampler knows what changes the other might have done to the disk. They do not tell each other. If both work in the same directory, then the one that did not make the change should change directory to something else and then back to the working directory. Changing directory always make the last updates active. CD-ROM's When you work with an Ensoniq type CD-ROM and EPSm, the CD-ROM player need to be of SCSI-type. ( Not the PC type). You need to have the required drivers in the extention folder of your Mac. I use the following. Foreign File Access High Sierra File Access ISO 9660 File Access Apple CD-ROM <<<The name may be different for other CD ROMS. Audio CD Access So you can safely include these. You dont want too many too smart CD related extentions; so if you have problems, you may try removing those that are not on the list above. The following CD-ROM players work with EPSm; Apple: 40SC, CD150, CD300i, CD300e. Others works but have not been tested by me. EPSm can work with any number for the SCSI-ID of the CDROM , but if you want to use it on the ASR-10/16+ at the same time, the SCSI-ID should be set to 4 if you want to use the demos on the CD-ROM. Apples CD300i is internally set to SCSI-ID 3. The same ID is hardwired for the EPS/ASR. Thus you need to change the SCSI ID on the CD300i. To do that you need to open the Mac or pull the CD-ROM out. The ID is set by 3 jumper positions.
K. Snatch Kurzweil K2000 samples. How you get the files in the first place can vary. Again you may obtain them from a friend. In net land there are also ftp sites that have Kurzweil samples. Please locate that yourself. You can convert K2000 samples to Sound Designer type 1 samples or to EPS instruments with the program K-Snatcher available from Terje. You read what you need to know in the docs for that prog. You need to download the sample archive as binary. The sample archives have extension.krz. Archives with extension.kr n where n is a number are multifile/disk archives, you have to merge/slice those. After you have opened an archive with K-Snatcher and saved samples as Sound Designer files you may do the following to play those samples on your EPS/ ASR/TS. 1. Launch EPSm and create a new image with the menu Image/New. If you have an ASR10 or TS10/12 you may select to make an ASRc image. If you have an EPS/16+ I recommend you select an EPS2 image, which also works for ASR/TS 2. Select the menu EPSfile/Import SFIL. Then select as many files as you think there will be room for in the image and choose add for each in the file menu and done when you are. This makes instruments which contain the samples, and they will be placed in the image 2b. You may select to edit the names of the entries in the image (menu EPSfile/Edit) 3. You then choose EPSfloppy/Write image to floppy. and put in a formatted floppy as you are told to. If you made a ASRc image you have to put in a DD COMPUTER format , otherwise you put in a DD floppy formatted by EPS or ASR (ENSONIQ) format 4. Take the floppy to your sampler, put it in the drive and load the instrument(s). Note, SoundDesigner type 1 files do not contain keyboard ranges while the.krz files do. With K-Snatcher you can also save the single files as EPS instruments. You can then fetch those into an image or onto your Ensoniq SCSI with EPSm. So it will be exactly like above but you EPSfile/Fetch a file instead of EPSfile/Import. L. Steal Roland samples. How you get the files in the first place can vary. Again you may obtain them from a friend. There exist a program written by t.g.finstad called SMAC that will read floppies from the 12 bit samplers (S330/S50/S550/W30). There is also an ftp site on the net that carry these samples. SMAC will extract the samples as EPS instruments contained in.EFE files.

mats. Thus the sequences will have all the errors that the samplers put into the conversion. In case of problems All software has bugs. Much software have different versions. So does EPSm. A bug report from the user(s) is very , very much appreciated. And I generally will and can fix bugs. No bug is too small to be reported. Please email bug reports to support@chickensys.com. Sometimes new bugs or errors in the files can occur, so please ask. If something seems wrong, maybe it is, but easy to fix. We have tested and run the EPSm program on 20 different Mac models. It has worked. Bugs In Your Mac I have always told users that their Macs have bugs. In addition to small ones there are serious bugs. It seems that no one takes that seriously or ignore the statement. I have to repeat it here. Your Mac has bugs. All Macs I have tried have serious bugs that occur with Ensoniq floppies. The result of this is similar on all models and systems but slight different in their details. You may convince yourself about this by inserting an EPS floppy into the drive after restarting without the EPSmINIT and without running EPSm.(EPSm will do things to fight the Mac bugs. This will also be effective after you quit EPSm. If you are using EPSmINIT then the bug fight is effective even before EPSm starts) Make sure you use floppies of a reasonable quality. Common problems: Many people use EPSm for getting free samples from the internet. The disks they make with EPSm can crash their sampler when loading an instrument. This is not caused by EPSm. This is caused by either you downloading as ASCII from the ftp site, using ASCII transfer mode from your unix host or decompressing the image as ASCII. You can use the menu command Image/ Check in EPSm after you open the image. It may tell you the image is not OK. You should read the section SOME EXAMPLES.F to see what you should have done, in that case Also many files on the internet will crash your sampler because the samples were created by a utility (mostly for a PC) that pretend to convert samples to Ensoniq format, but really makes crashing instruments. EPS/ASR on Mac SCSI bus and removable drives: This has nothing directly to do with EPSm, but you can use the same drive for both Mac and Ensoniq media. For one of the ways I have used it, the Mac does not have an INIT to mount at boot time. I mount the Mac cartridges

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.
*.EDE A Giebler mumbo file. Expand by EPSm by : Morph/.EDE->EPSi. (Or open it directly in expert mode) Write content to floppies, Ensoniq SCSI or single instrument file on a Mac drive *.EDA A Giebler mumbo jumbo file. Expand by EPSm by : Morph/ EDA>[EDA ].(Or open it directly in expert mode) Write content to Ensoniq SCSI or single instrument file on a Mac drive *.EFE A Giebler single file. Open a new image in EPSm and EPSFile/Fetch the file into it. Then write the image to a floppy ,or Fetch the.EFE directly to an Ensoniq SCSI *.EFA A Giebler single file. As for.EFE files *.AIF An Audio Interchange File Format File. You need to give the file a type AIFF by FileTyper. Then iimport it to an Open image or SCSI drive in EPSm.
*.WAV A MicroSoft Windows sample file. Use SoundApp to convert to an AIFF file Then import it to an Open image or SCSI drive in EPSm. *.mid A Midi file, Change the filtype to Midi. Can then be import to many Midi applications and EPSm.
This descriptions with updates should also be in a document reachable on the WWW web at http://fysmac04.uio.no:/eps.html. There used to be one ftp site on the net with a lot of EPS samples. These were almost all kept in one single format so there were no confusions. Now there are many ftp sites and bulletin boards. They store EPS/ASR samples in a variety of formats. The files are then compressed and arcived in a variety of other formats. It also used to be so that the files on ftp sites followed unix naming rules. The file extension told about the format of the file. Now, the IBM PC rules the ground. It has an 8+3 characters naming limit. Only 3 letters for one single extention. This limitation is sometimes carried over to the archives. Whatever format is used, you should always download a file as binary You should also know that most utilities for transferring files from a host to a Mac or for transferring unix files from floppies - they default to transfer as TEXT or ASCII. Tranferring files in this mode will corrupt the files. In addition, be prepared to accept that some of the files might already be corrupt in the archive. In particular PC programs that claim to convert samples from other formats tend to make Ensoniq instrument files that will crash your sampler when editing the fle. Below is a list of internet addresses from where EPS/ASR samples can be downloaded This list will also be more complete and up to date at <http:// fysmac04.uio.no/eps.html>