dagargo / emu3bm

Command line application to manage E-Mu EIII sampler bank files

emu3bm

emu3bm is an E-Mu EIII and EIV bank manager. It allows to create banks, add and extract mono or stereo samples and edit some preset parameters.

Although Emulator samplers from series EIII and EIV use the same filesystem, the bank format is very different and only banks for the EIII series are supported.

On EIV banks, only sample extraction is possible.

Installation

As with other autotools project, you need to run the following commands.

autoreconf --install
./configure
make
sudo make install

Features not available in the sampler

• Bulk edition.
• Set the pitch bend range beyond the 12 semitones limit.

Examples

Create a new bank.

$ emu3bm -d esi2000 -n bank
$ emu3bm -d emu3x -n bank

Import a sample.

$ emu3bm -s bd.wav bank

Import a looped sample.

$ emu3bm -S saw.wav bank

Create a new preset.

$ emu3bm -p BassDrum bank

Add a primary layer to preset 0 from sample 001 with original key F#2 from C2 to C3. Upper and lower case note names are allowed.

$ emu3bm -e 0 -z 1,pri,F#2,c2,c3 bank

The same thing can be accomplished by using key numbers.

$ emu3bm -e 0 -Z 1,pri,33,27,38 bank

Set preset 0 filter to the first one.

$ emu3bm -e 0 -f 0 bank

Set preset 0 cutoff to 200.

$ emu3bm -e 0 -c 200 bank

Set preset 0 Q to 10.

$ emu3bm -e 0 -q 10 bank

Set preset 0 VCA level to 100%.

$ emu3bm -e 0 -l 100 bank

Set preset 0 pitch bend range to 24.

$ emu3bm -e 0 -b 24 bank

Set all presets realtime controllers. In this case, we are setting:

• Pitch Control to Pitch
• Mod Control to LFO -> Pitch
• Pressure Control to Attack
• Pedal Control to Crossfade
• MIDI A Control to VCF Cutoff
• MIDI B Control to VCF NoteOn Q
• Footswitch 1 to Off
• Footswitch 2 to Off

$ emu3bm -r 1,4,8,9,2,10,0,0 bank

Related projects

• emu3fs is a Linux kernel module that allows to read from and write to block devices formatted as E-Mu EIII filesystem.
• Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager with support for MIDI SDS.