Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists
Subject: Pinder CDROM Compatibility
From: kenmerb@...
Date: 2002-10-25
Hello all,
I've got a request from someone who is trying to play the Pinder CDROM samples in his sampler, but can't seem to do it.
He' got an EMU ESI 2000 sampler with a SCSI CDROM drive attached. The Pinder CDR is in the AKAI format, and he says that his sampler can't read it. Now he's trying to read the CDR files on his PC's CD drive, but the disk appears empty to the PC (this doesn't surprise me - AKAI is not a PC compatible format like WAV or MP3, I don't think).
So, the question is - how can he get the EMU sampler to read in the Pinder Mellotron samples? Is there a conversion utility available which converts from the AKAI format to a format the ESI 2000 will recognize and read?
I've got a Kurzweil 2600, and it reads the Pinder CDR just fine, even though it is in the AKAI and not Kurzweil format..
I know that there are some people on our list who use this EMU sampler, and many others on the list who use the Pinder CDR. Any suggestions? Our friend says his band is "chomping at the bit" to use the Mellotron samples. Thanks.
Ken M.