EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi Bernard,

> I don't find you in my customer base so I guess you are speaking
> about a demo version which is limited to one partition only.

Yes, that is true.  I tried both the demo versions of Translator and
CDXtract a few months ago when I was trying to decide between the two.  I
have not tried CDXtract since then so I don't know what improvements you
have made to it.

> The click problem usually comes from a not well known feature
> of the Akai sampler, the loop points that are displayed on the
> screen are not the loop points that are used to play the samples.
> snip <

Understood.  However, the same samples that I got clicks on with CDXtract, I
did *not* get those clicks on with Translator.  That is what ended up making
my mind up for me.

> A big warning here, though it works with VPC 3 and 4, it doesn't seem
> to work with VPC 5 because the disk insert events are not trapped
> anymore by VPC 5 which means that you cannot read any proprietary
> formated discs (Akai, Emu, Roland...)

Thanks for the info.  I don't particularly need it since I'm on a PC anyhow
but this information is useful to Mac users.

Anyway, I just want to add that I hope that my post did not make CDXtract to
be a bad product.  I do not believe that it is.  Converting between
different sampler formats is a huge job, especially given the fact that
there are many special features only available on one sampler platform.  I
felt that Translator's conversions were just a bit better and matched the
original (as best it could) better than CDXtract.  That does not make
CDXtract a bad product.  It is miles ahead of exs-24 and, in fact, I prefer
some of its interface features over Translator (and vice versa).  In
purchasing a conversion utility, I wanted the one that could get me there
closer with less tweaking after conversion.  There are times where I still
tweak but that is mostly because I like to make some changes from the
original Akai programming (I have mostly Akai CD's).

Best regards and thank you for the input,
Fernstudio