EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 06:10 AM 6/2/02 +0200, you wrote:

>I was wondering how can I read my S550 floppys and convert them to
>the EXS24 format on a MAC G4 / 533 MP with MAC OS 9.2.2

That's the 3 time I've heard this asked - other times were on support calls.

(I hate floppies.)

The Mac does not like non-standard floppy formats. In fact, if you inserted 
a Ensoniq floppy into a Mac, it'll crash - I'm supposing this is the same 
with Roland ones. The explanation is that the Mac hates sector sizes higher 
than 9.

Anyway, there is a way to take a S-550 floppy and get it into the EXS, but 
you'll have to use a PC. You'd use a common domain (re: free) software 
called SDisk to get a ".out" file on your hard drive, then you could use 
Translator to convert it over, as it supports this format.

The other people asked if we'd put this in the Mac version, and we said... 
NOT. (See below)

(We have a philosophy that "legacy" issues are self-perpetuating. The only 
reason floppy drives even exist as standard equipment on computers (OK, 
PC's) is because manufacturers say that "people use them." The only reason 
people use them is because they're on the computer when UPS delivers it. 
Never mind that it's pre-1980's technology. Never mind that it's slower 
then the ENIAC. But we're idiots and we wrote conversion software on the PC 
side, at least. Call it boredom. Call it a challenge.)

(By the way, the person in a big way responsible for at least part of 
Ensoniq technology is the son of the co-inventor of the ENIAC. When you 
love the prefix "EN," well, you love it.)

(If you don't know what the ENIAC is, do a search on Google and prepare for 
fascinating reading. If you don't know why I keep writing useless boring 
messages using parentheses, it's probably because whenever I watch anything 
on TV that dickers with the Prime Directive, I can't sleep. And watching TV 
sex therapists with horrible teeth. Time to go to the store for some No-Doze.)

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User