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IS there any freeware that is able to load plain akai programs ?
not the STS which can do it, but as VSTi
I just need to load a single akai program.
or do they need to be converted anyway ?
I 've looked and didn't find anything (they all need conversion).
It doesn't exist ?

There's some free akai program players for Scope. Are those no good to you?

Shroomz~> wrote:There's some free akai program players for Scope. Are those no good to you?

not when my project is completely full..
it is for a online live project like foona's
cannot change project or load device without risking a lost sync...
otherwise i would have used them... now i just can't load nothing anymore even a simple eq...

nearly every NI Sampler should do it or try gigastudio if you still can get one

You could try S1100 sampler by signum which reads S1000 format akai programs. It's free...

seems to be down

- yep, seems to be down (not available anymore, i googled it, but no luck).. thanks for the help anyway..
- On NI , only kontakt imports multi format but i don't have it, battery doesn't do it neither (i have battery 2 only, and it can't import akai, at least, not from cd).
I don't have gigastudio.... neither :-/

I feel very weak on the sampler side these days... at least when it comes to loading old akai formats....

Do you not have a real hardware sampler anymore?

I'll search our systems here. I think we've got that S1100 sampler somewhere.

I still have the eps 16+ but it is unplugged right now and would load only ensoniq 1.44 MB floppies

I was sure we had that S1100 here, but it's not coming up in system searches, sorry Mehdi.

i guess i will have to convert to something and load it in whatever can load it....
thanks for the try

There's Paax which is free & loads Akai S5000 & S6000 format.

Shortcircuit free version also loads Akai format, but only S5000/6000/Z4/Z8 .akp again like Paax.

There's also Vsampler, but it's a 30 day free trial & costs 125 dollars.

There are converters as well.

thanks mark, i will try those...
yes there are converters too... (but i also wanted to check the cds without extracting the whole bunch of them...)..

Vsampler looks pretty good Mehdi, but for $125 I'd advise anyone to buy a real sampler. S3000 & S3000XL samplers are selling on ebay for as little as 80-100 euro these days. There's other nice hardware samplers that load Akai format as well, such as the Emu & Yamaha ranges. You can get the likes of the Yamaha A3000 which loads Akai as well as WAV formats or an Emu ESI-4000 for no more than 100 euro.

Btw, I think I've got that S1100 software sampler on a CD somewhere here. I'll have a look for it.

Which AKAI CD's are you trying to convert ?
Are they Sonic Reality ?
If so you can contact Sonic Reality and ask them about the conversion to Reason etc. that they use which I believe might be what you need.
Gigastudio doesn't work BTW, for that coversion you'll nedd ESC, or Translator Giga Edition.

Check the attached zip file Mehdi. It's an old beta release of signum's S1100 DX sampler which seems to work standalone. Haven't tried it in a VST host though. Not sure if you'll be able to load from your Akai CDs or not as I couldn't see any docs.

Don't waste your time Mehdi. I've been playing around with this S1100 plugin & it doesn't read Akai CDs. A virtual Akai sampler that doesn't read Akai CDs... what next. I bet their later versions of this plug read them, but I couldn't find a copy.

i never tried Volkssampler, maybe that works?

Shroomz~> wrote:Don't waste your time Mehdi. I've been playing around with this S1100 plugin & it doesn't read Akai CDs. A virtual Akai sampler that doesn't read Akai CDs... what next. I bet their later versions of this plug read them, but I couldn't find a copy.

Hm...wasn´t it so, that one is in need of a certain ASPI driver for Reading Akai Cds?