EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 11:57 AM 9/11/01 +1200, you wrote:

>I have an akai cdrom called 'funky elements'. I have loaded it on my
>CD3000XL and it has partitions from A to J or something like that.
>When I go to convert it on the exs only one partition is showing..
>This shouldn't be happening....please help.

The Akai file spec and disk spec have not been completely documented, 
certainly not by Akai and made public. As a result, most of the different 
programs and samplers that read Akai disks are based on 
individually-written code, which means maybe 50 or so programmers have 
disassembled and reverse-engineered what they've seen and put together 
their own spec.

Funky Elements has it's own peculiarities, and I'm not surprised EXS misses 
it. In fact, I just tried it on a number of Akai-compatible platforms and 
most of them miss it (including CDxtract) - they just show one partition. 
It's because what most engineers assume is the right way to read a disk 
ISN'T the best way, but the method works most of the time, but not all the 
time - and FE brings that out.

There IS a program that will read and translate the Akai sounds on that 
disk... =) download the demo at www.chickensys.com/translator/download and 
you'll be able to view it properly, like on the Akai. That is, if you have 
a PC. If you have a Mac, your wait shall end shortly.

(Excuse the self-plug, but I'd been waiting for this question for years...)

While I'm at it, Translator fully supports many Akai's parameters, 
including envelopes, in it's translation. It even supports the amplitude 
envelope, the filter cut-off, and resonance on a per-zone basis by using 
the group override parameters. It took a lot of work to scale the 
parameters properly to make this happen. Hopefully, it's a temporary cure, 
as we hope Emagic in the next release brings everything down to the zone 
level like it should.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User