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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] nonmaskable.com ImageDisk files

2013-04-26 by JAddams

Hi Carl,

I'm using some custom software I wrote to do it - it's not simple though (IMD ver1.11 fully supported but the later ver1.17 still has some problems).

In essence each imd file is compressed:
- You need to uncompress it into raw binary (you can actually see the 8bit voice data if you scan this).
- looking into the file you can see that the original cmi file system was stored as 8 char name + 2 char extension
- the next two bytes store the segment offset for the loopstart and loopend point (with a segment being 128 in length)
- following that are three padding bytes

I can give specific details if you want, but it's not as simple as loading a disk

The software is written for an intel mac.

J-L


On 26 Apr 2013, at 12:43, nossbocaj <nossbocaj@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for being a bit off topic, how do you extact the loop points?

/Carl

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, JAddams wrote:
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> Jean-Bernard & Kirk - thank you :)
>
> OK. Some files don't open (ver 1.1 i think), but it's a good start.
>
> looking at the libraries they are grouped into 4 sections:
> IIx library - not the same as the IIx i've got, looks like an earlier version
> old IIx library - as above but much older
> jeff 2011 - some interesting stuff like bikodrums, DX1 to 5, voices and woodwind - problems with loading some of these
> jeff disks - lots of drum sets but again my software has some issues loading some disks
>
> Currently I can load all the .VC files along with the loop points. Internal conversion is then straight to 16bit.
>
> Jean-Luc
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>
> On 23 Apr 2013, at 13:25, Jean-Bernard EMOND wrote:
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> > like a miror here : <http://cmi.fairlightus.com/>
> >
> > Le 23/04/2013 13:28, jaddams80 a écrit :
> >> Nonmaskable looks like it is no longer with us.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a copy of the imagedisk files they could give me access to?
> >>
> >> I'm able to open ver 1.8 imagedisk, but ver1.1 gives strange results at
> >> the moment.
> >>
> >> J-L
> >>
> >>
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