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

[Paul K. <pau...@md...>]

> From: Christian Schoenebeck <chr...@ep...>
> 
> 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.


There isn't much information out there...  but people are still working
on it, as TeleDisk was used for more than Akai formats:

  http://home.earthlink.net/~will_kranz/wteledsk.htm
 
 TeleDisk only works for floppy disks, so conversion from TeleDisk format
to either an Akai disk image or individual Akai files should probably be
done in an external utility rather than supporting .TD0 directly as a 
file format...


> The way I'd like to see things, is that an external utility is used to
> rip the instruments off of different medias and convert them to files
> that can then be imported using libInstPatch. Can one find Akai patches
> on the internet for example? What format would they most likely be in?

Creamware used individual Akai S1000 format files, calling the samples
".S" and the programs ".P".  FMJsoft AWave also supports this format but
I don't know of anyone else who does.  But mostly, image files of whole
Akai CD-ROMs are used (either S1000 or S3000 format).

The Akai S5000 onwards use .WAV and ".AKP" program files on a DOS disk, 
so you do see individual files being distributed - but there are far more
S1000's and S1000 compatible devices around, so S1000 and S3000 are the
formats to concentrate on.


> I have some S2000 format zip disks sitting in my desk draw. From what I
> remeber its very similar to S3000 format, but I dont know if its identical.

Yes, S2000 is the same format as S3000/S3200.



Paul.

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