EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> Excuse my ignorance, but, the isn't the Akai site raw data in Akai 
format?
> 
> You provide the  EXS instruments, but doesn't the raw data still 
have to be
> converted to aif or wav files?


To be a bit more specific: AKAI has wisely purchased a license from 
microsoft to use msdos as the fileformat for the s5000/s6000, and wav 
as the raw audio data format. This means that all AKAI sample cds for 
these samplers will be instantly read by a pc or a mac, and it also 
means that you can finish your samples in the audio editor of your 
choice, then transfer them to the sampler without any conversion 
problems what so ever. This is really nice, something I enjoy every 
time I use my s5000 - to be honest, I haven't even tried the sample 
input jacks on the sampler; for what I know they may not be working 
at all, I wouldn't know since I always transfer wavefiles directly 
from my PC hd to the s5000, using USB. It also means that s5000 
samples will be instantly understood by any softsampler, such as the 
EXS24.

I have downloaded all the samples now, and tried out a few programs 
on my s5000. I am not terribly impressed with all of them, but there 
are a lot of nice ones around, and it has been well worth the effort. 
I am really looking forward to try them out in EXS too. James, thanx 
so much for your work here - that is truly impressing!!! We could all 
learn a lot from this example of community spirit here, and to judge 
from the posts on this list in the last few days, we already have. 
Nice.

To those of you who has been complaining about not getting thru to 
AKAI ftp: you really have to just keep trying. Sooner or later, 
someone will sign off, leaving an empty spot for you. I sometimes had 
to try 7 or 8 times with a minute in between before getting through. 
I can still only recommend using ftpexplorer (pc) for the download, 
which will allow you to download everything by the archive, instead 
of file by file, and it will also let you resume broken downloads. 
Also, it can let you keep trying to connect for a specified number of 
times (hammering), which actually was what got me through every time. 
Available for free on the www, probably on places like 
http://www.download.com.

Enjoy your downloads.

regards

monsdrum