DPXTOOLS version 01.02 build #4 (c) 2007 - 2013 by E-Synthesist


DPX DISK Utilities and Convertors for Windows XP or higher
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This package contains 5 free tools for the Oberheim DPX-1 Digital Sample Player.

They require Windows XP or higher and an internal floppy drive (no USB drives !).
All tools are COMMANDLINE 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.

The read/write/format tools require the INSTALLATION OF THE FDRAWCMD.SYS floppy driver.
You can download this driver from:      http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/

DPXTOOLS are:
- 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 from www.emulatorarchive.com (CDROM).
- 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.

E2DPX 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 !

For information how to use these tools, simply run them without any parameter.
Help information will be provided by the tool.


COPYRIGHT and DISCLAIMER
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The DPXTOOLS are FREEWARE, but E2DPX.EXE and DPX2E2.EXE are copyrighted (c) 2007 - 2010 by Kris Van de Cappelle - Belgium.
None of the tools may be sold or included in commercial software.
Using this software and the output produced by this software is at risk of the user. 
The author is not responsible nor accountable for any damage caused by using this software.

Oberheim DPX-1 is a trademark of Oberheim/ECC/Gibson.
SoundDesigner and SoundDesigner for Emulator II are trademarks of DigiDesign.
S900 is a trademark of Akai Pro.
EII and Emulator II are trademarks of Emu Systems.
Prophet 2000 and Prophet 2002 are trademarks of Sequential/SCI
Mirage is a trademark of Ensoniq/Emu Systems
  
If you don't agree with this disclaimer, do not use this software.


New features in version 01.02:
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- Support for filenames which contain spaces (max. 256 characters)
- Support for batch operation: all valid files in the folder can be 
  converted in one single run by E2DPX and DPX2E2
- Bugfixes: EII validation routines have been updated

Build notes:
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- Build 01.02.1 - 2010-05-13: Initial build.
- Build 01.02.2 - 2010-12-27: FIX: NTFS Compressed files are supported in batch mode now.
- Build 01.02.3 - 2013-02-11: FIX: fixed problem with addressing of samples for some EII files in E2DPX and DPX2E2
- Build 01.02.4 - 2013-02-14: FIX: additional fix for addressing of samples for some EII files in E2DPX and DPX2E2   

                                  

2013-02-14
///E-Synthesist




