Akai CD's & XP

sartredark · Post by **sartredark** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 4:41 pm

No more problems with Akai CD's.
Convert Akai S1000/3000/5000/6000 CD's to Wav,Aiff,Pulsar,Sf2,Giga,Halion,Mp3,Kurzweil,Roland,Emu...

http://www.cdxtract.com

GREAT & FAST AS HELL SOFT

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sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 11:41 pm

yes, we know! but which sound to convert?! whole akai disk?!
i know that cdxtract have browser, but don't have sampler to play and try. with cdxtract you can hear only sample by sample - only one layer of sample-program.
so, this is still big problem (for me)!

what cw say about this - ignorance again?!
what we can expect and when?!

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 11:44 pm

Awave's batch convert seems to work best for me tho. CDextract messes up sample parameter often.

dbmac · Post by **dbmac** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 8:22 am

On 2002-03-19 23:41, sandrob wrote:
yes, we know! but which sound to convert?! whole akai disk?!
i know that cdxtract have browser, but don't have sampler to play and try. with cdxtract you can hear only sample by sample - only one layer of sample-program.
so, this is still big problem (for me)!

Check out Nexoft Samplibrowse:

http://www.nexoft.net/products/samplito ... Browse.htm

SampliBrowse lets you pre-listen and browse AKAI™ S-1000 / S-3000 CDs in a most comfortable way. It looks and behaves pretty much like the well known Windows Explorer - only it can read your AKAI CDs.

And not only can it read them - it allows you to actually play the sounds directly from the CD! SampliBrowse contains a powerful software sampler, which loads the sounds from your CDs several times faster than your hardware sampler could.

SampliBrowse has an on-screen keyboard, so you really can try out the sounds! (additionally, you can plug in a MIDI keyboard) You need not actually load the sound into your sampler just to see what it would sound like.

You will love SampliBrowse, if you are a Pulsar / Scope user: SampliBrowse not only reads AKAI CDs directly from your PC's CDROM drive but also those ".p / .s" files the Pulsar sample player writes to your hard disk. With SampliBrowse, you can copy / move / duplicate those Pulsar sample player sounds, either directly from CD to the filesystem or from one folder to another.

Needless to say you can search a CD / your entire harddisk for samples and sounds...

The program works great for auditioning sample programs. My only beef is they haven't updated Pulsar sample format to read *.sts programs and *.wav samples. I've requested this and Wolfgang, Nexoft main man, says this will be done. It would be good if he heard from more Pulsar users, might speed up the upgrade.
/dave

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 8:49 am

just try demo, but can't browse akaies from cd?

pulsar format from hard browseing but play with latency - can't set ASIO!?

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 9:01 am

Sandrob, you must have an STS in your machine, right?

Use CDXtract to make .sts programs.

Simple!

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 9:04 am

yes, paul

i do exactly this in win98, but now in xp i have problem (like many others) with sample browse window in pulsar.