Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Have you tried www.Chickensys.com 

The full version is $150 US. There was a stripped down Translator 
Free version. I've only used it in Windoze to make S1000 CD's from 
waves so my Peavey SP could read them. It can convert S1000/3000 
samples to wave or aiff. It can see the disk on a SCSI bus in my PC 
or sampler and let me create an image. The limitation was one sample 
crunch per 1/2 hour.  

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "schrasjer" <gram@...> 
wrote:
>
> ok,
> 
> hmmh. any programs you would recommend?
> 
> i'm trying cdxtract, but it still can't see the disk, it sees the 
drive and it see a blank disk 
> when i insert it.
> guess i'll just keep trying.
> 
> anybody?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> gram
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce 
<gordon@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 00:30 +0000, schrasjer wrote:
> > > hey folks,
> > > 
> > > i just got ableton live 7 and i want to mess with my s1100 
samples, so
> > > i took one of my zip disks and put it into a us zip drive 
attached to my macbook. 
> > > says it cannot read the disk.
> > > is there a simple solution, or even a complicated one?
> > 
> > The Akai zip disks are in Akai format, which your Mac won't 
understand.
> > You can get software to translate from Akai to normal .wav 
samples,
> > though.
> > 
> > Gordon
> >
>