EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 03:45 PM 1/5/05 +0100, you wrote:

>I¹m now thinking of transferring my akai sample library which is on MO 
>disks. I run it from an Akai S5000 any hint tips or tricks for how to 
>acces these mo disks on the mac and then use whatever transformation 
>program to use wihtin the esx. Its about 30 mo disks so its kind of a lot.
>The mo drive is external scsi. I do have scsi on one of the macs.

Are the MO disks formatted for the S-5000, or for the S-1000/3000? That's 
critical. See below.

> >If you still got a computer with a scsi port, I got a solution for you.
> >You will need a cr-rom writer and a copy of a cd-rom burning software
> >(usualy comes with it)
> >Usually, your computer would reject the drive (unreadable format...bla bla
> >bla... eject or format ?)
> >BUT, if you got you re burning soft open, it will not prompt you to eject or
> >format. Then got get the drive info with a scsi scan (or whatever they call
> >it) and make a CD-copy (might be called CD image or scsi copy as well); this
> >makes a blind copy, wich means it will not verify the content while it
> >writes. Needless to say you don t have to make the verify disk at the
> >end....
>
> >Once this is done, you got a cd-rom back-up that any computer can read (if
> >you did choose the right format when you burned :)  )

This is useful info if the MO drives are S-1000 or S-3000 formats, which 
are not readable by the Mac. if they are S-5000 format, they are DOS format 
and the Mac can read it itself, so the above is not necessary.

>One further question though.
>What if there is more info on the mo drive than the cd rom. Would it work as
>well with dvd rom? Or does it make the image over a few cds?

If they are S-1000 or S-3000 they are only 510mb used anyway. If they are 
S-5000, you don't need the above solution anyway - just move the files over 
manually.

And again, if the sounds are S-1000 or S-3000, the above is helpful, since 
the onboard Akai convertor reads only CD's. However, if they are S-5000 
.akp files, the EXS won't for free convert them - you'd need to purchase a 
3rd party conversion program.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User