It's a shame the EIIV doesn't expose sample start/end and loop start/end as automatable parameters.

You can control them in real time with the mouse, and it's great and works nicely, but I really want to be able to control these with physical controls on my controller, and automate them, because one of the fun things about exploring the old sample libraries is just how much you can do with very limited samples - and being able to sweep through the sample and loop in realtime is a really great tool...

google drive?

re: bublup, I went to "bubbling up" and then there was an item where I could click on the recent post of samples and download them.

No worries, it’s worth it.

If you already have a Dropbox or Google account, people can download just from the links you give them — they don’t need to create accounts. And Google Drive starts you out at 15 GB of space for free, if you have a Gmail account.

Steve

OK I figured it all out. The service was recommended to me by an IT friend, it is new to me also I apologize for my mistake. I like this service as the free accounts unlike most such things seem to have really fast upload and download speeds. Even faster than my Google and Microsoft Cloud Drives that I pay for

if you follow this link you can download without signing up for anything

https://rolls.bublup.com/view/6538f1...5-059e3ab75faf

if you follow this link you have to sign up but will also get free 4GBs of Cloud Storage, this also helps me as I get an extra GB free to share more samples I have many GBs of vintage samples I want to share

https://invite.bublup.com/gNr-TSkj2kes

with that out of the way, I just upload another 250 MB file of more EII samples. Enjoy!!

This seemed to work - saw A-D and E-N

Cool. I don't mind signing up, especially if it gets you more space to host the files! Heading over to do it now....

Steve

EDIT: Well, I created the account, got the extra storage space (I hope you got yours!), and saw the "Samples" to download. Unfortunately, right-clicking on the icon doesn't offer "Download". The "Quick Help" on the site doesn't explain how to download either. The full "Help" feature on the site says that "Download" should be an option when clicking on the three dots. It isn't in my case. (And I've verified the account.)

No worries, and I don't blame @ Deleted d6ffc70 for any of this. I'll just use the "free" link he also offered.

Steve

thanks Steve. On Windows in Chrome you can just double click on the icon for the file to download, no need to mess with the three dots

Bublup is a fairly new service so there are a few kinks I think, but I like the lack of creepy adds and the lack of creepy malware downloads you get on many free file share services plus the faster download speeds

In any case I am currently uploading the remainder of the EII Archive it's a big file almost 500mb and another half a gig of Fairlight CMI samples

allright I blew off everything I was supposed to do this afternoon and finished converting and uploading everything. When unzipped it's over 12,000 Individual Samples in 48 Itemized folders and 1.1GB in total size. If you have the new Arturia Emulator II V it's a lot of fun. Since they are WAV files you can also load into other things

You can find them all here. Free to download with no registration, creepy ads, or malware

https://rolls.bublup.com/view/fbba59...e-6416c9e25849

I hope everyone enjoys these, and has a Happy Holiday Season! Here is to a better 2021!

Also bookmark that URL lots more free samples to come there in the New Wear. Currently working on JD990 Samples recorded through analog outboard onto Reel to Reel tape for example

Cool of you to do this. Thanks, and cheers!

Thank you for all these samples. Turned out I already found this set and did the same conversion you did.

I do however have another possible gem. It's a CD image with the E-mu Factory samples together with packs from OMI (3 libraries), FMS, and Burmer.

I can mount the image and see the files but I can't for the life of me figure out the format. E-II V wont open them. All the conversion software I found can't recognize them.

Anyone have a clue?
I'll see if I can upload and share these.

If you can send me the files I would love to try and convert them to WAV. I have several obscure software pieces now that can do all sorts of conversions

You can use wetransfer.com and upload and just post or PM the link. The link will expire in 7 days

Alright, here it is.
Link: https://invite.bublup.com/YMXaH3jEm8h_
I don't know if this is an invite link or if it is a clean direct link.

A clue about these samples is that it is possible to import them as raw data in Audacity but it sounds terrible. It's as if there are extra items such as headers and stuff that messes up the sound.
Another clue is that I could see some kind of header/file info if I opened them up with this link:
https://filext.com/file-extension/SD1
Just drop a file in there and it partially opens.

If anyone manages to crack this code please share the content with instructions about how to read this.

Another share of the same files. Does it work?

https://we.tl/t-Wv9nioMSpl

Strange how *every* "sample" file is 486Kb...

Weird huh...?

on the EII disk images I have every single image is exactly 560KB never any more or any less

All of those files also do not have any extension on them. I added the extension for both the Emulator I and the Emulator II files, disk images, banks, etc and my conversion software could see them and would return errors

its like the files are corrupted, or missing some kind of checksum or header or meta data of some kind

Thx for the feedback. That explains why I couldn't do anything with them.

Thanks again for this! Where are the Fairlight CMI samples from? (I'm downloading them now, so I can't tell yet.) I have tons of those, so if you want more, let me know.

Steve

I have a few different sample converters/openers/manglers for converting to and from Emulator and Emax formats -- in addition to Kurzweil and Fairlight CMI. I also have the E-MU X3 plug-in. Maybe somewhere in all that I'll find something to open these.

Steve

I tried the files with six different E-MU- and/or Emax-related extensions. Nothing would recognize them except for Chicken Systems' Translator...which didn't like what it saw when the files used the .em1 extension, and wouldn't open anything else. This was the only extension where CST could "see" into the file, to list all the .WAV elements -- and a bunch of other junk. But it couldn't play the .WAV files or edit them. And some of the .WAV files had negative file sizes. (You read that correctly.) I've uploaded a screenshot of it, but the site doesn't let you see it at its native resolution. You'll need to download it if you want to see what's inside the files. Maybe someone will see something that helps us decode the rest of it....

The Emulator X3 plug-in wouldn't open any of the files if they had any of the standard Emulator extensions. And while it can import other file types, it couldn't import any of these with any file extension that I tried.

Does anyone have any idea where this CD-ROM .ISO image came from originally? There was nothing in the readme file on it except for a suggestion that the .ISO file was made using third-party software, and not really for mass production/distribution.

Since the E-MU/Emax converter software I have doesn't run under Win7 (in any "compatibility mode"), I'll keep trying to find a way to get it to work. I don't think it's a DOS app, because the file dates aren't that old. If I can't get it to work, I can keep messing around with Chicken Systems' Translator, but that is not an easy -- or particularly fun -- program to use.

Steve

I found the CD image here: http://www.synthark.org/Emu/Sampler-Resource.html

Edit:
Could it be that each 475k file is actually an old Mac disk image file?

Loving all this!

Would really like the OMI samples too in WAV format. Heck, even Emulator III files would be great.

Thanks for all the hard work

Love it!

Here's a resource I created for the first Emulator. It contains all the samples and disk images I could find. If anyone has more, I'd love to add it over time.
https://rolls.bublup.com/view/6765de...3-8dddf9537ff8

Most of it came from this thread:
Here are disk images for Emulator 1, Fairlight and Emax

I hope to add more vintage sampler libraries over the next days.

I’m just amazed that Emulator 2 V is so CPU hungry. Seems wrong in comparison to CMI V.

Thanks Santa! You saved retro-sampling Christmas!

This one looks interesting but I can't find any info if it loads sf2 or akai format (checked the manual too but haven't found it). I have almost all EMU libraries in these formats. Anyone knows if it can load these? Or only wave? Thanks!

Another forum member sent me the complete working archive of these Mystery files and a bunch more. I was able to convert them to WAV files and uploaded them here

https://rolls.bublup.com/view/ace7f8...f-c38c71c33601

they are called Archive II and Archive III. There is some overlap from what I already posted but there is a lot of new stuff as well

I have another batch to process that will be called Archive IV I hope to upload later today.

Edit:For those wondering Archive II are the Disks Called "EII Factory Library" and Archive III is "OMI UOS Vol.1"

It does not.

Oh no, that's a deal breaker for me. Thanks for the info!