EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Message posted by Phil Taylor <phil_laurels@...>:

Hi,
My first time on the forum......I joined up because I sniffed the possibility of actually solving this issue: I simply want to extract the contents of my Kurzweil K2000R and access them via the EXS 24. I have a Mac G4 which has a SCSI card fitted, and connected the K2000R to it, thinking I'd see it on the desktop as a volume / Drive / whatever....that's where the trail ran out........if anyone has any advice for me, I'd be very grateful indeed......
Plinthchimp (PT) Hertfordshire, England

At 04:16 PM 12/2/2006, you wrote:

>My first time on the forum......I joined up because I sniffed the 
>possibility of actually solving this issue: I simply want to extract 
>the contents of my Kurzweil K2000R and access them via the EXS 24. I 
>have a Mac G4 which has a SCSI card fitted, and connected the K2000R 
>to it, thinking I'd see it on the desktop as a volume / Drive / 
>whatever....that's where the trail ran out........if anyone has any 
>advice for me, I'd be very grateful indeed......

You can do this with Translator www.chickensys.com or CDxtract 
www.cdxtract.com - both are commercial program those (not free) but 
are very helpful in the long run for many things.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User

> At 04:16 PM 12/2/2006, you wrote:
>
> >My first time on the forum......I joined up because I sniffed the
> >possibility of actually solving this issue: I simply want to extract
> >the contents of my Kurzweil K2000R and access them via the EXS 24. I
> >have a Mac G4 which has a SCSI card fitted, and connected the K2000R
> >to it, thinking I'd see it on the desktop as a volume / Drive /
> >whatever....that's where the trail ran out........if anyone has any
> >advice for me, I'd be very grateful indeed......
>
3 dec 2006 kl. 03.37 skrev Garth Hjelte:

> You can do this with Translator www.chickensys.com or CDxtract
> www.cdxtract.com - both are commercial program those (not free) but
> are very helpful in the long run for many things.
>
> Garth Hjelte
> Sampler User


and it works great :)

m

On 03/12/2006, at 1:37 PM, Garth Hjelte wrote:

>> My first time on the forum......I joined up because I sniffed the
>> possibility of actually solving this issue: I simply want to extract
>> the contents of my Kurzweil K2000R and access them via the EXS 24. I
>> have a Mac G4 which has a SCSI card fitted, and connected the K2000R
>> to it, thinking I'd see it on the desktop as a volume / Drive /
>> whatever....that's where the trail ran out........if anyone has any
>> advice for me, I'd be very grateful indeed......
>
> You can do this with Translator www.chickensys.com or CDxtract
> www.cdxtract.com - both are commercial program those (not free) but
> are very helpful in the long run for many things.

I'd be interested in doing this too.

How would you move the samples from the K2000R to the computer?
Andris

At 05:01 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote:

> >> My first time on the forum......I joined up because I sniffed the
> >> possibility of actually solving this issue: I simply want to extract
> >> the contents of my Kurzweil K2000R and access them via the EXS 24. I
> >> have a Mac G4 which has a SCSI card fitted, and connected the K2000R
> >> to it, thinking I'd see it on the desktop as a volume / Drive /
> >> whatever....that's where the trail ran out........if anyone has any
> >> advice for me, I'd be very grateful indeed......
> >
> > You can do this with Translator www.chickensys.com or CDxtract
> > www.cdxtract.com - both are commercial program those (not free) but
> > are very helpful in the long run for many things.

>I'd be interested in doing this too.
>How would you move the samples from the K2000R to the computer?

The programs above don't communicate with the Kurzweil ITSELF, but 
the disks. If you try to read a Kurzweil CD or disk in a computer (PC 
or Mac), it won't read it's directory, because the Kurzweil format is 
different then a standard computer disk format.

The programs above are designed to read these disks, and convert what 
they see into .exs files and WAVE/AIFF files. For example, it'll see 
a file called "brass.krz", and say that contains 5 Programs and 25 
samples. They'll make 5 .exs files and 25 sample files; each .exs 
file will correspond to the programming/mapping of those Kurzweil 
programs, and the samples will represent each sample.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User

On Dec 4, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Andris Sice wrote:

> On 03/12/2006, at 1:37 PM, Garth Hjelte wrote:
>
> >> My first time on the forum......I joined up because I sniffed the
> >> possibility of actually solving this issue: I simply want to  
> extract
> >> the contents of my Kurzweil K2000R and access them via the EXS  
> 24. I
> >> have a Mac G4 which has a SCSI card fitted, and connected the  
> K2000R
> >> to it, thinking I'd see it on the desktop as a volume / Drive /
> >> whatever....that's where the trail ran out........if anyone has any
> >> advice for me, I'd be very grateful indeed......
> >

> > You can do this with Translator www.chickensys.com or CDxtract
> > www.cdxtract.com - both are commercial program those (not free) but
> > are very helpful in the long run for many things.
>
> I'd be interested in doing this too.
>
> How would you move the samples from the K2000R to the computer?
> Andris


If you are referring to "extracting" the ROM samples with loop  
pointers etc.... from your Kurzweil, this won't work.
Even if you could, the EXS would have a very hard time reproducing  
the programming capabilities of a Kurzweil Kxxxx series sampler.
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Dennis Burns
Bolder Sounds
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On 05/12/2006, at 10:50 AM, Garth Hjelte wrote:

> If you try to read a Kurzweil CD or disk in a computer (PC
> or Mac), it won't read it's directory, because the Kurzweil format is
> different then a standard computer disk format.

Does this mean someone's selling Kurzweil disks? Where d'ya get 'em?

Andris

At 04:28 PM 12/5/2006, you wrote:

> > If you try to read a Kurzweil CD or disk in a computer (PC
> > or Mac), it won't read it's directory, because the Kurzweil format is
> > different then a standard computer disk format.
>
>Does this mean someone's selling Kurzweil disks? Where d'ya get 'em?

Sweetwater still sells quite a few; I sure you'd have to call them, 
you wouldn't see it on their site or catalogs. I think Ilio still has 
stock of theres. I'd also mention the "e" word (they do auctions) but 
it's all Barbary Coast there, so I don't recommend that.

Also try Pyramid Sounds - www.pyramid-sound.com

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User