EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I also continue to run all my music applications under Mac OS 9.2, However I 
also have OSX on my same machine that I boot into to run my regular 
Applications and Intertnet. Here is a free program I have found useful for 
uncompressing giga samples formated for the PC. Hope this might help a bit:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/MacPAR_deLuxe/MacPARdeLuxe.dmg.sit




>From: Larry Tarof <ltarof@...>
>Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
>To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
>CC: Jeremy Martin <sadus@...>
>Subject: [exs] New message: Giga format samples for Logic on Mac (first 
>posting)
>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:41:12 -0500
>
>I have Logic 5.5.0 with Mac OS 9.2 (could go to OS X but eMagic says this 
>is
>not useful for my applications). I'm trying to import a Giga format sample.
>Unfortunately, the sample I care about (which represents the majority) is
>formatted for PC on the CD (i.e. the disk itself), not for the Mac. The 
>.wav
>files which comprise the overall big file are importable into EXS. In this
>particular case (from EastWest at Soundsonline), the disk is .rar 
>compressed
>into an .exe file which fits on a CD -- the uncompressed file would not. I
>don't have access to a PC at my site.
>
>Here's what I've done:
>1. Offsite uncompress the .exe file onto a PC. It ends up as one large .gig
>file.
>2. Move .gig file to Mac offsite. Again one large .gig file (~900 MB).
>3. Use Stuffit to compress .gig file into a .sit file which fits onto a CD.
>Burn the CD.
>4. Take the CD to my site and uncompress. It does uncompress but I get
>"error 17538".
>5. Import the file into EXS by moving the .gig file into the samples 
>folder.
>Logic thru EXS does in fact recognize the .gig file, creates an .exs file,
>and moves 12, but only 12, of the
>528 files (or is it 529? one file is in "default") gets converted to .wav.
>
>The end result is that if I have the pedal down and play pp (not mf or ff),
>I can hear some "A"s and "B-flat"s and nothing else. So I think I'm
>partially there and the technique fundamentally works. I'd like to believe,
>though, that there is a better way.
>
>Has anyone gone through this before? Any tips, suggestions, etc.? Any ideas
>on what it will take for the Giga format samples producers to recognize Mac
>as important or for eMagic itself to supply tested procedures for importing
>a supported format (Giga) which exists mainly on PC disks into the Logic
>application, which is, going forward, being supported on Mac only?
>
>Thanks,
>Larry


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--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Martinson" <
paul_martinson@h...> wrote:
> I also continue to run all my music applications under Mac OS 9.2, However I 
> also have OSX on my same machine that I boot into to run my regular 
> Applications and Intertnet. Here is a free program I have found useful for 
> uncompressing giga samples formated for the PC. Hope this might help a bit:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/MacPAR_deLuxe/MacPARdeLuxe.dmg.sit
> 

Thanks for replying, Paul.  If I understand correctly from the website 
you cite above, this utility will deal with files which are labeled 
.rar.  In my particular case, the file on the PC is labeled .exe.  I 
suspect that this file is an exectuable which self-extracts a file 
which was compressed in .rar format (any experts out there to confirm/
refute?).  Would this utility be expected to work on an .exe file?  

So you've actually extracted giga samples.  Were these files declared 
as .rar or .exe or other?

Cheers, Larry