Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

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?

i'd love to not have to resample my library into the laptop.

cheers,

gram

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

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
>

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
> >
>

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 01:07 +0000, schrasjer 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.

I've used akaitools to extract .wav files from Akai disk images before.
It's fiddly but it works.

Gordon

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce
<gordon@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 01:07 +0000, schrasjer 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.
>
> I've used akaitools to extract .wav files from Akai disk images
before.

> It's fiddly but it works.
>
> Gordon
>