EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I'm trying to import some Akai disks into EXS-24, and I suspect the 
problem I'm having is a system one, not with EXS-24. When I insert
the 
disk, the drive seems to read it for a couple of seconds, then goes 
dead. Nothing appears in the Akai CD import screen. My computer
doesn't 
freeze up or isn't otherwise adversely affected; the disk just isn't 
recognized.

I have a 500 MHz G4 running 9.1 with a 2.6 GB DVD-RAM. I've never had 
any problems with the drive before. Any suggestions?

Bruce F.

This might help?  Regards, Les Caudle

problem: EXS's AKAI conversion is not able to recognize AKAI CD's with
 an additional audio partition.

 This problem occurs with MacOS system 9.1 or later.
 All the specific AKAI data on such CD's is simply hidden to the EXS's
 AKAI conversion.
 This behaviour is caused by a system extension called "Apple CD/DVD
 driver" with version number 1.4.

 Using an older version of this extension, e.g. 1.3.9 (the one that 
comes
 with MacOS 9.04) fixes the problem.

 Please note: the name of the exenstion may be different on 
non-english
 MacOS systems.

 PS included, you'll find a link where you can download the german
 version of the extension "Apple CD/DVD driver" 1.3.9. It may also 
work
 on non-german systems.

 The file can be found in the file space of the list:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logic-users/files/
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exs-users/files/
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logic-tdm/files/
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logic-ot/files/

--- In exs-users@y..., frost338@y... wrote:
> I'm trying to import some Akai disks into EXS-24, and I suspect the 
> problem I'm having is a system one, not with EXS-24. When I insert
> the 
> disk, the drive seems to read it for a couple of seconds, then goes 
> dead. Nothing appears in the Akai CD import screen. My computer
> doesn't 
> freeze up or isn't otherwise adversely affected; the disk just isn't 
> recognized.
> 
> I have a 500 MHz G4 running 9.1 with a 2.6 GB DVD-RAM. I've never 
had 

> any problems with the drive before. Any suggestions?
> 
> Bruce F.

Also, if the disk is multi-format, AKAI + audio then you would have to
extract the AKAI image and burn it as a separate CD for the ESX to see it

Thanks, Les. It did help somewhat. My system will now recognize ROMs 
with an audio portion--the audio files will show up and are accessible. 

But the Akai portion doesn't appear on these disks, and the disks that 
are Akai-only still won't mount at all. And EXS won't recognize either. 

I'm going to try to access these on another Mac and see what happens. 

Bruce


--- In exs-users@y..., lescaudle@h... wrote:
> This might help?  Regards, Les Caudle
>

Like I said before ESX does not see Mixed Mode CDs, Extract the Akai Portion
as an Image with toast, burn to a new CD and use that to import, apple
extensions should make no different as far as the EXS import is concerned.

> But the Akai portion doesn't appear on these disks, and the disks that
> are Akai-only still won't mount at all. And EXS won't recognize either.