EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

When converting from some AKAI CD's, in this case Retro Funk, 
there are missing samples. Is there a limit on how many zone's 
can be converted? I only get 41, when there should be 45. 

//Jonny B.

Jonny,

I've got the Retro Funk CD, but have  only converted single 'sets' of
grooves (sorry, can't remember the proper term right now). I haven't tried
to convert multiple sets. Let me know which ones you've tried and I'll try
to replicate it if you wish.

Just a thought, but did you copy the 'non .GC' sample versions or the .GC
ones? I remember reading somewhere (either spectrasonics website or with the
RF documentation) that there are differences between the two versions (don't
recall what however). All I know is that I've converted the non .GC versions
by accident and gotten some pretty strange sounding results.


on 3/18/01 9:47 AM, jonblom@... at jonblom@...
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> When converting from some AKAI CD's, in this case Retro Funk,
> there are missing samples. Is there a limit on how many zone's
> can be converted? I only get 41, when there should be 45.
> 
> //Jonny B. 
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Regards,

    Shane


-- 
Shane Fawkes, 
Director of Music, 
Walnut Grove Secondary School,
Langley, B.C. Canada

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At 05:47 PM 3/18/01 +0000, you wrote:

>When converting from some AKAI CD's, in this case Retro Funk,
>there are missing samples. Is there a limit on how many zone's
>can be converted? I only get 41, when there should be 45.

Wo is the stock translator...

BTW, things like this gave us the impetus to make a product that does 
things right.

Actually, if you do the math, you can figure out why it's doing that. 
Apparently the stock translator assumes that a program is 1 Akai Cluster 
long, which is 8192 bytes - and this isn't true. RetroFunk is by 
Spectrasonics, who use S3000 format - so you have a program header and 
keygroup size of 192 bytes each.

 From that, you can see that only 41 keygroups (that's what you mean, I 
believe - not "zones") are translated (192 + (41*192) = 8064 bytes).

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

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Jonny,

I fired up Tower GC and also got 41 keygroups, not 45 like you said you got
on your EMU. Which ones were missing? How do the two (EMU vs EXS) compare as
far as sounds -I mean do you notice any missing drum sounds or hits? Maybe
they just do something different in their formatting?

on 3/18/01 11:52 AM, Jonny B. at jonblom@... wrote:

> Shawn,
> 
> The set I had problem with is Disc B, G04 Tower GC. And the
> particular program is TWR 1 GC.
> Same thing works great when I load it into my E-Mu sampler, then I
> get all files.
> 
> //Jonny B.
> 
>> Jonny,
>> 
>> I've got the Retro Funk CD, but have  only converted single 'sets' of
>> grooves (sorry, can't remember the proper term right now). I haven't tried
>> to convert multiple sets. Let me know which ones you've tried and I'll try
>> to replicate it if you wish.
>> 
>> Just a thought, but did you copy the 'non .GC' sample versions or the .GC
>> ones? I remember reading somewhere (either spectrasonics website or with the
>> RF documentation) that there are differences between the two versions (don't
>> recall what however). All I know is that I've converted the non .GC versions
>> by accident and gotten some pretty strange sounding results.
>> 
>> 
>> on 3/18/01 9:47 AM, jonblom@... at jonblom@...
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> When converting from some AKAI CD's, in this case Retro Funk,
>>> there are missing samples. Is there a limit on how many zone's
>>> can be converted? I only get 41, when there should be 45.
>>> 
>>> //Jonny B.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
>>> exs-users-unsubscribe@egroups.com
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>>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Shane
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Shane Fawkes,
>> Director of Music,
>> Walnut Grove Secondary School,
>> Langley, B.C. Canada
>> 
>> shanefawkes@...
> 

Regards,

    Shane


-- 
Shane Fawkes, 
Director of Music, 
Walnut Grove Secondary School,
Langley, B.C. Canada

shanefawkes@...

In a message dated 3/18/01 9:48:03 AM, jonblom@... writes:

>When converting from some AKAI CD's, in this case Retro Funk, 
>there are missing samples. Is there a limit on how many zone's 
>can be converted? I only get 41, when there should be 45. 

Fixed in 4.7

coming soon!

-Spectrum

In a message dated 3/18/01 8:57:51 PM, shanefawkes@... writes:

>> The set I had problem with is Disc B, G04 Tower GC. And the
>> particular program is TWR 1 GC.
>> Same thing works great when I load it into my E-Mu sampler, then I
>> get all files.

Please try again with 4.7. All these issues are now fixed.

-Spectrum