EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 11:42 PM 9/15/02 -0700, you wrote:

>Got Chicken Sys
>Got Translator (Bitheadz)
>Thinking of getting CD Extract.
>Got old roland samples on Floppy Disk
>Downloaded Files akai format, etc.
>All these conversion utilities mentioned above
>seem only to convert from CD's.
>So what to do?: Burn a cd in Toast (on MAC)
>or Jam (On Win). If so, what format?
>Downloaded soundfont files convert via exs
>no problem. Why can't these other files convert the same way?
>I have also heard the make your own EXS conversions
>How?
>I am on a mac

Pretty good out of form Haikuu... (almost started singing it...)

The Roland samples (guessing S-50/550) can be put up to the hard drive 
using an old utility called SMac. From there there's not a whole that can 
be done. Translator does support the .out format (which is essentially what 
SMac creates) to other formats, but it isn't on the Mac version yet. 
(There's plans to do it, just don't know when.)

The Akai format could be a number of things. .akp=S-5000, .p/.sts=Pulsar, 
.prg/.s3p/.sp=MESA - the latter two are clones of the S-1000 or S-3000 
format, stored on computer HD instead of proprietary Akai disk. Both the 
utilities mentioned above deal with some of these, not all of them yet. 
Check their web sites or documentation for what's available, e-mail them or 
call them and bug them to do your preferred needed format. Since you have 
Translator, call them/us up and request it. Death threats are usually the 
most effective method. =)

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User