the best way to get a good quality sound into the emax is through midi sample
dump i use dissidants sample wrench as it works with all the old samplers
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:13 AM
Subject: [emax] Re: Converting wav files to Emax samples using EMXP





another significat factor is the AD 12 bit conversor

sometimes you get better results sampling a sound directly to emax's sample
input using a decent preamp.

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Rei" <vjrei@...> wrote:
>
> The answer is very simple...
>
> Algoritms. Emu software is meant to work with Emu hardware. Is like when you
buy an iPod or any other music device, if you use some other kind of headphones
the sound is gonna be way different, usually bad.
>
> The OS of each Emu sampler is calibrated for its own hardware, if you import
an audio file only with the correct sample rate that doesn't mean anything, you
are missing the antialiasing filter, that is the one that gives the texture and
the quality to the actual sample other than the samplerate.
>
> EMXP is only downgrading the sample rate but is not resampli with
antialiasing/EQ or compression. That is what gives Emu its sound, they really
did an amazing job suking the sounds out of the technology back then.
>





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