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Help! Please Help!

2002-05-28 by Jim

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

Re: [Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!

2002-05-28 by sdavmor

----- 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

Re: [Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!

2002-05-28 by kenmerb@aol.com

In a message dated 05/28/2002 5:20:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, finnegan@... writes:


Subj:[Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!
Date:05/28/2002 5:20:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:finnegan@...
To:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent from the Internet



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


Hi Jim,

I suggest you purchase an external CDROM drive to read in your samples. These drives aren't expensive, and this is really the way to go if you plan on using samples in your Triton. I have a Kurzweil 2600XS (a workstation / sampler, similar to the Triton), and am also using the Pinder Mellotron CD, on occasion. I use an external CDROM drive, and it works great. Your Triton probably has something called a SCSI interface like mine (someone correct me here if I'm wrong about the Triton), which will allow you to connect the CDROM drive. You also have the floppy (not floopy ;-) ) drive, but you don't want to use that for samples - not enough storage, and samples come on CDs, so you should have a CDROM drive.

If you want to get an external CDROM drive, contact me privately and I can help you with the whole SCSI setup thing, since I have been through this recently. Good luck.


Ken M.
(remember me from the Portsmouth visit a few years back?)

Re: [Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!

2002-05-29 by sdavmor

Ken's suggestion is probably a better way to go since it bypasses the need
to extract data and screw around with intermediate formats & floopys. We
used the floopys so that Matt Evidon (Under The Sun) could load a very old
Roland sampling keyboard with a 'tron string sample to get some faux
mellotron on "Reflections" for their debut album. All things considered I
like the SCSI CD plan of attack a lot more.
--
Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
www.systemstheory.net
www.thecleanersystem.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <kenmerb@...>
To: <mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!


> In a message dated 05/28/2002 5:20:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> finnegan@... writes:
>
>
> > Subj:[Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!
> > Date:05/28/2002 5:20:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> > From:<A HREF="mailto:finnegan@...">finnegan@...</A>
> > To:<A
HREF="mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com">Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com</A
>
> > Sent from the Internet
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I suggest you purchase an external CDROM drive to read in your
samples.
> These drives aren't expensive, and this is really the way to go if you
plan
> on using samples in your Triton. I have a Kurzweil 2600XS (a workstation
/
> sampler, similar to the Triton), and am also using the Pinder Mellotron
CD,
> on occasion. I use an external CDROM drive, and it works great. Your
Triton
> probably has something called a SCSI interface like mine (someone correct
me
> here if I'm wrong about the Triton), which will allow you to connect the
> CDROM drive. You also have the floppy (not floopy ;-) ) drive, but you
don't
> want to use that for samples - not enough storage, and samples come on
CDs,
> so you should have a CDROM drive.
>
> If you want to get an external CDROM drive, contact me privately and
I
> can help you with the whole SCSI setup thing, since I have been through
this
> recently. Good luck.
>
>
> Ken M.
> (remember me from the Portsmouth visit a few years back?)

Re: [Mellotronists] Help! Please Help!

2002-05-29 by Jim Anderson

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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