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Audio CD to WAV / AIFF converter (single sounds)

2001-02-28 by Emanuel Frey

Hello all

I asked the same question before, and got an answer from several of you.
Thanks. 
It seems that we misunderstood each other, and maybe I haven¹t been too
clear.

Question (again):
Is there a software that will read Audio CDs and write their content as WAV
/ AIFF files on my hard disk (MAC)? I know there is Toast Audio Extract, and
different others, but they just copy the whole tracks. That¹s simple. But,
for importing the WAV files into EXS24, I need each single SOUND from the CD
extracted as a separate WAV file, not the whole tracks! How else should I
import them into EXS, if not divided. Certainly not manually, or do YOU
spend hours for dividing extracted tracks manually into individual samples?
(hope you don¹t!)

Most audio sample CDs have small pauses (half a second or more) between the
different sounds/samples on the CD that would allow the software (which is
to be found here ;) ) to recognise the individual sounds by just cutting the
pauses and saving the rest as individual files. Shouldn¹t be too difficult
and should work for all sounds that are somehow consistent, but not for
sounds that contain silence periods within themselves, of course.

Did I discover the last real audio market whole for a developer to fill with
his new product?
I want to make music, not deal with audio CD¹s to rip for hours. Help?

Greetings and sorry for the unclear question last time.
Emanuel

PS: By the way, I hate to see producers to just offer audio CD¹s and no
AKAI/EXS24 version. But this seems to be a sales/financial problem. The more
mainstream, the better the chance for AKAI version. As we all like those
off-stream, independent, garage sounding, all-new samples, we will have to
deal with audio sample CDs. 


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