EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hello all

I asked the same question before, and got an answer from several of you.
Thanks. 
It seems that we misunderstood each other, and maybe I haven¹t been too
clear.

Question (again):
Is there a software that will read Audio CDs and write their content as WAV
/ AIFF files on my hard disk (MAC)? I know there is Toast Audio Extract, and
different others, but they just copy the whole tracks. That¹s simple. But,
for importing the WAV files into EXS24, I need each single SOUND from the CD
extracted as a separate WAV file, not the whole tracks! How else should I
import them into EXS, if not divided. Certainly not manually, or do YOU
spend hours for dividing extracted tracks manually into individual samples?
(hope you don¹t!)

Most audio sample CDs have small pauses (half a second or more) between the
different sounds/samples on the CD that would allow the software (which is
to be found here ;) ) to recognise the individual sounds by just cutting the
pauses and saving the rest as individual files. Shouldn¹t be too difficult
and should work for all sounds that are somehow consistent, but not for
sounds that contain silence periods within themselves, of course.

Did I discover the last real audio market whole for a developer to fill with
his new product?
I want to make music, not deal with audio CD¹s to rip for hours. Help?

Greetings and sorry for the unclear question last time.
Emanuel

PS: By the way, I hate to see producers to just offer audio CD¹s and no
AKAI/EXS24 version. But this seems to be a sales/financial problem. The more
mainstream, the better the chance for AKAI version. As we all like those
off-stream, independent, garage sounding, all-new samples, we will have to
deal with audio sample CDs. 


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Use Toast in conjunction with Peak or something similar. Peak can
auto-select "regions" and export them in bulk. Then they can be imported
into the EXS. There a several programs which do this sort of thing.

> From: Emanuel Frey <efrey@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:18:27 +0100
> To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [exs] Audio CD to WAV / AIFF converter (single sounds)
> 
> 
> Hello all
> 
> I asked the same question before, and got an answer from several of you.
> Thanks. 
> It seems that we misunderstood each other, and maybe I haven¹t been too
> clear.
> 
> Question (again):
> Is there a software that will read Audio CDs and write their content as WAV
> / AIFF files on my hard disk (MAC)? I know there is Toast Audio Extract, and
> different others, but they just copy the whole tracks. That¹s simple. But,
> for importing the WAV files into EXS24, I need each single SOUND from the CD
> extracted as a separate WAV file, not the whole tracks! How else should I
> import them into EXS, if not divided. Certainly not manually, or do YOU
> spend hours for dividing extracted tracks manually into individual samples?
> (hope you don¹t!)
> 
> Most audio sample CDs have small pauses (half a second or more) between the
> different sounds/samples on the CD that would allow the software (which is
> to be found here ;) ) to recognise the individual sounds by just cutting the
> pauses and saving the rest as individual files. Shouldn¹t be too difficult
> and should work for all sounds that are somehow consistent, but not for
> sounds that contain silence periods within themselves, of course.
> 
> Did I discover the last real audio market whole for a developer to fill with
> his new product?
> I want to make music, not deal with audio CD¹s to rip for hours. Help?
> 
> Greetings and sorry for the unclear question last time.
> Emanuel
> 
> PS: By the way, I hate to see producers to just offer audio CD¹s and no
> AKAI/EXS24 version. But this seems to be a sales/financial problem. The more
> mainstream, the better the chance for AKAI version. As we all like those
> off-stream, independent, garage sounding, all-new samples, we will have to
> deal with audio sample CDs.
> 
> 
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At 10:18 PM 2/28/01 +0100, you wrote:

>Is there a software that will read Audio CDs and write their content as WAV
>/ AIFF files on my hard disk (MAC)? I know there is Toast Audio Extract, and
>different others, but they just copy the whole tracks. That¹s simple. But,
>for importing the WAV files into EXS24, I need each single SOUND from the CD
>extracted as a separate WAV file, not the whole tracks! How else should I
>import them into EXS, if not divided. Certainly not manually, or do YOU
>spend hours for dividing extracted tracks manually into individual samples?
>(hope you don¹t!)
>Most audio sample CDs have small pauses (half a second or more) between the
>different sounds/samples on the CD that would allow the software (which is
>to be found here ;) ) to recognise the individual sounds by just cutting the
>pauses and saving the rest as individual files. Shouldn¹t be too difficult
>and should work for all sounds that are somehow consistent, but not for
>sounds that contain silence periods within themselves, of course.

That's a great idea, and someone came up with that last week to us, and we 
are putting it in to the latest version of Translator. It's not Mac yet, 
but will be, and will have that feature.

Specifically, many Audio CD's that sport samples contain more than one 
sound within a track, due to the 99 track limitation of an audio CD. The 
feature does this: you would rip all 99 tracks and put them into one 
folder. Translator then can take each track and extract out each "chunk" of 
sound, and place it into an EXS instrument, putting each chunk on one MIDI 
note (or you can specify one EXS instrument per chunk). You can specify the 
amplitude threshold and the time period that Translator will look for to 
extract these chunks.

The only bummer is that Translator can't rip audio CD's yet, but it will.

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