EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Martin, Jeremy wrote:
> Hey everyone. I'm finally about ready to purchase EXS24 and was just
> thinking about which converting software I should get.

Before you start buying any software, you should check out if the EXS's
internal convertion eventually does its job for you. It will read and
convert both AKAI/CD and SF2/Disk formats and I found it to be pretty much
sufficient for my needs. I only have a few AKAI CDs and using the EXS for
them was OK. I had to do some manual corrections but that was about it (and
it seems to be the same with *any* existing converting software so far).
There's a bunch of drawbacks when dealing with the internal conversion (it's
slow, previewing files is even slower, converting individual patches
sometimes doesn't work as good), but if you don't have too much CDs to
convert, try it before you buy anything else.

This is not meant to diss either CDxtract or Translator, these certainly do
a better job in case you need flexibility and broader file format support,
but as said above, for a "few" discs the EXS may be sufficient.

Re: AKAI vs. Audio CD:
Go AKAI whenever you can. As you said yourself, these usually contain a much
wider array of information. Looppoints being all set, patches too,
audioloops being cut properly straight after importing, etc.

Regards,
Sascha