EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>I'm feeling a little sheepish asking this, but hope someone can help me
>through this process of installing my Retrofunk & Backbeat GC disks. I
>had them installed on my old machine and wanted to do a complete fresh
>install of everything on my new computer, but I can't fully install
>either of these 2 sets. The only solace I can take is in the fact that
>the spectrasonics tech rep couldn't answer/solve it for me either.
>
>I've been able to install/convert the AKAI Data discs (via 
>EXS>OPTIONS>AKAI CONVERT function), and copied the Groove Control
>sequences, but have not been able to extract/create any of the .EXS
>files.  I initially installed those on my old system with no problems
>(from what I can recall) years ago. The only major difference I can
>think of is that would have been with Logic 5.x (maybe even 4?) on an
>OS9.x system and I'm now running 6.4.3 on OS 10.3.7.  My new machine
>doesn't even have OS9 installed on it to try that route.
>Any suggestions for creating my .EXS files would be greatly appreciated.

Your best option is to use CDXtract. (http://www.cdxtract.com)
This is an app which will extract all the data from the sampler 
disks, and will create .exs files (instruments) from the original 
Akai disks.

Regards - Colin