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Oberheim
DPX-1 Digital Sample Player
Disk and
File Utility Software
for Microsoft Windows |
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What it is |
The
DPXTOOLS software package contains five free tools for the Oberheim DPX-1
Digital Sample Player: -
DPXREAD: reads DPX 3.5" floppy disks and
creates a DPX diskimage on your PC's harddisk. -
DPXWRITE: writes DPX diskimages from your PC's
harddisk to DPX 3.5" floppy disks. -
DPXFORMAT: formats DPX 3.5" floppy disks. -
E2DPX: translates EII files to DPX diskimages,
which can be written to disk with DPXWRITE. The EII files must be
SoundDesigner for Emulator II files (size 485887 bytes). EII Files can be obtained on the
internet, e.g. on the Emulator
II Yahoo Group or on the eiiiforum -
DPX2E2: translates DPX diskimages to EII files,
which can be used with SoundDesigner for EII and the Emulator II. The DPX
images must originally have been created from EII disks; DPX images based on
S900, P2000/2 and Mirage are not supported. These
tools require Windows XP or higher and an internal floppy drive (no USB
drives !). All
tools are command line tools, so you'll have to open an MSDOS or COMMAND
window in Windows. Only
DPX disks are supported, not the S900, EII, Prophet2000/2 and Mirage disks
themselves. DPX
disks are the disks you typically format on your DPX and on which you can
"data dump" soundbanks loaded from S900/EII/Prophet/Mirage disks. For
more information how to use these tools, simply run them without any
parameter. Help
information will be provided by the tool. |
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E2DPX |
E2DPX
(included in DPXTOOLS) enables you to use Emulator II sounds on your DPX
player without having to buy an Emulator II to create the EII disks first. (remember
that Emulator II disks can not be formatted/read/written by any PC) Disks
of the other 3 samplers can be created by a PC, so no additional tool is
needed for those ! |
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Price |
DPXTOOLS
is 100% free of charge (freeware). For
more information on the license, please read README.TXT included in the
download package. |
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Download |
The
DPXTOOLS can be downloaded here: Version
01.02 supports: -
batch conversions in E2DPX and DPX2E2 -
filenames which contain spaces DPXREAD,
DPXWRITE and DPXFORMAT require the installation of the FDRAWCMD.SYS floppy
driver. This
is not the same driver as the one EMXP uses (OmniFlop). The
driver required by DPXTOOLS can be downloaded here: |
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DPX-1 Serial interface |
The
Oberheim DPX-1 player can be extended with a CDROM interface, which basically
is a high speed RS422 serial interface with a DB9 connector. This
interface can be used for connecting the original OMI CDS3 CDROM player to
the DPX-1, but it can also be used for connecting any computer to the DPX-1
by means of the EmuSer. EMXP supports the transfer
of Emulator-II sound banks to the DPX-1 via the EmuSer. |
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Two
types of serial RS422 interface boards exist for transferring Emulator-II
sound banks to the Oberheim DPX-1 sample player: - A serial board
designed and manufactured by Oberheim Electronics. This board was part of an
optional extension which also included 8 individual output channels, and
which fitted in the back of the DPX-1 case. - A serial board
designed and manufactured by Optical Media International. This board only
consists of the RS422 interface, and did not fit in the back of the DPX-1
case. More
information about the OMI CDS3-to-DPX serial board can be found here. |
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Trademarks |
Emulator
II is a trademark of E-Mu Systems Oberheim
DPX-1 is a trademark of Oberheim/ECC/Gibson. Mirage
is a trademark of Ensoniq / Emu Systems. Prophet
2000 and Prophet 2002 are trademarks of Sequential / SCI. Akai
S900 is a trademark of Akai Professional. OMNIFLOP
is a trademark of Sherlock Consulting Limited Sound
Designer is a trademark of Digidesign OMI
and CDS3 are trademarks of Optical Media International |
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