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From: "Jim" <finnegan@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:21 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!


I'd appreciate any help on how to load the Mellotron Archives samples on to
my Korg Triton Pro keyboard/sampler, which is armed with a floopy drive. My
computer sees that there 496 mb on the cd, but nothing else. How do I
convert the information on the cd to floopy discs? Do I need to download
some sort of extracting program? I understand that the samples are Akai
formatted, which are supposed to be friendly to the Triton.

Please don't use big words, I'm a guitar player.

Thanks for any and all help,
Jim FInnegan
M400 s/n 121

Jim,

I went through this issue several years ago when I first purchased the MA
Pinder rom. Your problem is that Winxx platforms don't support "Akai"
format CDs as a ∗native∗ rom type. However, for a small amount of $ you can
acquire a very good program that will read the MA Pinder rom on your PC, and
extract the Akai files converting them into WAV files. IIRC you should be
able to get 3 files onto a floppy. Unfortunately I threw out all the floppy
files when I moved, or I'd ship them to you. The program you want [that I
use] is CD Extract v3.6. Go to http://www.cdxtract.com/
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Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
www.systemstheory.net
www.thecleanersystem.com