Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] AKAI samplelibrary loader is online

[Christian S. <chr...@ep...>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:20:37 +0100
Benno Senoner <be...@ga...> wrote:

> Hi, I'm forwarding a mail from Sebastien, he has put online
> his AKAI samplelibrary loader which will be useful for AKAI import
> in LinuxSampler. 

:) Ok, that means I can stop my work then. I was already working on some
experimental code for that.

> AKAI S1000/2000 does not use files  but reads the samples directly
> from CD. Alternatively one can dump the CD's image to a file 
> (cat /dev/cdrom >file.img :-) ) and then work on that image.

Actually it has files, though very primitive and Akai uses *of course*
it's own file system. As some Akai CDs do also contain demo audio
tracks, I was thinking about extracting only the first track instead of
reading the whole CD image.

> Anyway being CD image based, it is not easy to write 
> manipulated data to HD (one would need to create a whole image) but I

As Akai tracks also consist of files, I think that should not be a
problem. So I think manipulation of Akai patches, writing to HD,
creating Akai ISOs and burning them back on CDs should be possible.

I'm just curious if he solved the Teledisk problem. As some Akai
libraries seem to use this odd "Teledisk" format and I was not able to
find any information about it.

CU