EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 10:48 AM 11/19/01 +0000, you wrote:

>Which utility would I use? to read the Akai disk?
> > I've successfully converted a few AKAI format CDs - the EXS appears to 
> do an
> > excellent job. I have one problem, however, and have scoured the specs of
> > any AKAI conversion utilities I can find to no avail:
> > On converting Talvin Singh's Abracatabla CD, only the sample files and
> > programs are converted - none of the Akai format MIDI files, which can be
> > seen and read on my S2000, are converted successfully - they just appear as
> > non-functioning exs instrument files.
> > Can anyone help?
> > *******
> > the EXS cannot read *.MID....
> > u have to copy them from the cdAkai to a folder... and insert them in Logic
> > with the Import function...

I don't know if you can get there from here. I think maybe MESA is your 
only solution. Here's an overview.

There is the Akai S-100 and S-3000 format, which is proprietary. In other 
words, it cannot be seen natively by a Mac or PC. This CD apparently has 
songs and q-lists stored on the disk in S-1/3 format.

Any of the programs (EXS, Unity, some others) that can see and read off 
Akai S-1/3 formatted CD's just look at programs and samples, since their 
point is to load these.

We are working on Translator Mac, and your suggestion is well taken, and 
we'll try to implement a way to take these off CD and make a SMF file out 
of them.

But in the meantime, I think MESA could possibly do this?


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