Mellotronists

I've never used a Korg Triton, but I think the easiest way would be to 
hook up an external CD-ROM drive to your Triton and just read the CD 
directly.  CD-ROM drives are pretty inexpensive these days.

I got this from the Korg web site for the TRITONpro:
SCSI interface lets you connect TRITON series to an external media
(hard disk, removable media such as Jaz and ZIP ) or a CD-ROM drive.
When this option is installed, you can save TRITON series data such as
program/combination data, samples, sequence data, and global data to
external media. Also you can load AKAI S1000/S3000 (Samples,
Mapped Multisounds only), KORG Trinity-format sample files (Triton
cannot load Trinity format data from TFD-1S, TFD-2S, TFD-3S and
TFD-4S , since they use data-compressed data) , AIFF & WAVE
format sample files via CD ROM drive. 

I have an Akai sampler and had a similar situation.  My solution was to 
disable the Apple CD driver and hook the sampler to the computer via 
SCSI.  Then I used the computer's CD-ROM drive to load the Pinder CD onto 
my sampler.  Eventually I moved everything to a 10G disk along with the 
Akai boot image, so now the sampler boots off the hard drive and has all 
the samples readily available.

-jim/m400#680


On 5/28/02 2:39 PM, sdavmor wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>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/
>--
>Cheers,
>SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
>www.systemstheory.net
>www.thecleanersystem.com
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