EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me what are the best firewire 800 drives to use with 
Logic?

thanks a bunch,
julie


www.julielarson.net

I have been using Western Digital External Hard Drive 1394 iLink 500Gig 
for the past couple of months. It seems to work fast, and reliably, and 
it has fast Firewire or regular connections, + dual voltage.
Price in London was £285 (about $550 US), so you should be able to find 
it in US for about $400.

http://www.westerndigital.com
Phone in US 800.275.4932


On 5 Jan 2005, at 02:09, Julie Larson wrote:
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Hi guys

I¹m now thinking of transferring my akai sample library which is on MO
disks. I run int from an akai s 5000 any hint tips or tricks for how to
acces these mo disks on the mac and then use whatever transformation program
to use wihtin the esx. Its about 30 mo disks so its kind of a lot.

The mo drive is external scsi. I do have scsi on one of the macs.

Best

Markus enochson

>Can anyone tell me what are the best firewire 800 drives to use with
>Logic?

LaCie d2 Extreme w/ triple interface.

Ron

I hear there's rumors on the internets...

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Hi

If you still got a computer with a scsi port, I got a solution for you.
You will need a cr-rom writer and a copy of a cd-rom burning software
(usualy comes with it)
Usually, your computer would reject the drive (unreadable format...bla bla
bla... eject or format ?)
BUT, if you got you re burning soft open, it will not prompt you to eject or
format. Then got get the drive info with a scsi scan (or whatever they call
it) and make a CD-copy (might be called CD image or scsi copy as well); this
makes a blind copy, wich means it will not verify the content while it
writes. Needless to say you don t have to make the verify disk at the
end....

Once this is done, you got a cd-rom back-up that any computer can read (if
you did choose the right format when you burned :)  )

Good luck


Louis

> Hi guys
> 
> I¹m now thinking of transferring my akai sample library which is on MO
> disks. I run int from an akai s 5000 any hint tips or tricks for how to
> acces these mo disks on the mac and then use whatever transformation program
> to use wihtin the esx. Its about 30 mo disks so its kind of a lot.
> 
> The mo drive is external scsi. I do have scsi on one of the macs.
> 
> Best
> 
> Markus enochson
> 
> 
> 
> 



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From: Gramophone [mailto:gramophone@...] 
Sent: den 5 januari 2005 15:15
To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [EXS] Question
 
Hi

>If you still got a computer with a scsi port, I got a solution for you.
>You will need a cr-rom writer and a copy of a cd-rom burning software
>(usualy comes with it)
>Usually, your computer would reject the drive (unreadable format...bla bla
>bla... eject or format ?)
>BUT, if you got you re burning soft open, it will not prompt you to eject or
>format. Then got get the drive info with a scsi scan (or whatever they call
>it) and make a CD-copy (might be called CD image or scsi copy as well); this
>makes a blind copy, wich means it will not verify the content while it
>writes. Needless to say you don t have to make the verify disk at the
>end....

>Once this is done, you got a cd-rom back-up that any computer can read (if
>you did choose the right format when you burned :)  )

>Good luck


 
Good call there.
 
One further question though.
 
What if there is more info on the mo drive than the cd rom. Would it work as
well with dvd rom? Or does it make the image over a few cds?
 
Best
 
Markus

Will work with dvd if you got a dvd on that computer. A scsi copy cannot be
sub divided, it s  simply not reading (aka blind copy)
I m a bit surprise an old scsi drive got more than 700 meg of data. If ever
your drive is bigger than 700 meg, but the info is 700 or less, make sure
the drive as been optimise, otherwise you might have some data scarce
around, outside the 700 meg mark; the cd will only take the first 700,
anything after will not be recorded, ending up in missing data and
unreadable files (not all files, just the ones with data outside 700)

Louis

> 
> Good call there.
> 
> One further question though.
> 
> What if there is more info on the mo drive than the cd rom. Would it work as
> well with dvd rom? Or does it make the image over a few cds?
> 
> Best
> 
> Markus
> 
> 




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> I¹m now thinking of transferring my akai sample library which is on MO....
What format? 

If these are all S5000 format (i.e. .WAVs and .AKPs) on an S5000 formatted
disk, the Mac should just read it if you hook the drive up to the Mac - you
can just drag the stuff across.

If they are older Akai formats (S1/3000) on an old Akai formatted disk, the
disk(s) will be rejected by the Mac (but see below)

> I run int from an akai s 5000 any hint tips or tricks for how to
> acces these mo disks on the mac
I don't suppose you have ak.Sys do you (you'll need the USB board
installed)? If so, just load from the MO into the S5000 first and then drag
from the 5000's memory to the desktop (or use the "SAVE TO MAC" function). A
bit tedious but.....


Best regards,


Steve
http://www.hollowsun.com

At 03:45 PM 1/5/05 +0100, you wrote:

>I¹m now thinking of transferring my akai sample library which is on MO 
>disks. I run it from an Akai S5000 any hint tips or tricks for how to 
>acces these mo disks on the mac and then use whatever transformation 
>program to use wihtin the esx. Its about 30 mo disks so its kind of a lot.
>The mo drive is external scsi. I do have scsi on one of the macs.

Are the MO disks formatted for the S-5000, or for the S-1000/3000? That's 
critical. See below.

> >If you still got a computer with a scsi port, I got a solution for you.
> >You will need a cr-rom writer and a copy of a cd-rom burning software
> >(usualy comes with it)
> >Usually, your computer would reject the drive (unreadable format...bla bla
> >bla... eject or format ?)
> >BUT, if you got you re burning soft open, it will not prompt you to eject or
> >format. Then got get the drive info with a scsi scan (or whatever they call
> >it) and make a CD-copy (might be called CD image or scsi copy as well); this
> >makes a blind copy, wich means it will not verify the content while it
> >writes. Needless to say you don t have to make the verify disk at the
> >end....
>
> >Once this is done, you got a cd-rom back-up that any computer can read (if
> >you did choose the right format when you burned :)  )

This is useful info if the MO drives are S-1000 or S-3000 formats, which 
are not readable by the Mac. if they are S-5000 format, they are DOS format 
and the Mac can read it itself, so the above is not necessary.

>One further question though.
>What if there is more info on the mo drive than the cd rom. Would it work as
>well with dvd rom? Or does it make the image over a few cds?

If they are S-1000 or S-3000 they are only 510mb used anyway. If they are 
S-5000, you don't need the above solution anyway - just move the files over 
manually.

And again, if the sounds are S-1000 or S-3000, the above is helpful, since 
the onboard Akai convertor reads only CD's. However, if they are S-5000 
.akp files, the EXS won't for free convert them - you'd need to purchase a 
3rd party conversion program.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User