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2011/08/08 08:48:51 (permalink)

Akay samples in Sonar

iHello,
 
What is the best way to play akai samples in Sonasr?
I have dozens of old akai disk libraries that I want to restart using.
I used to use Kontakt to play them but is there any easier option?
 
Thanks in advance
 
joni
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    Re:Akay samples in Sonar 2011/08/08 09:19:31 (permalink)
    Kontakt is one way but there are other ways too. Do a Google search with the term 'Which VST's read Akai samples' and you will turn up a few options. One way is to get a program that will enable you to read the Akai samples and convert them to another format such as sfz for example that could load up into existing Cakewalk synths. And it will be a lot cheaper than getting Kontakt just to do the same job. eg:

    http://www.extranslator.com/index.php?page=news

    or Chicken Systems Translator Pro:

    http://www.chickensys.com/

    Are you talking about 3.5" floppies or Akai CD ROMS?

    There are also a few VST's that may be able to do it. Like Emulator X2 for example, not quite sure on that but try downloading the manual to check. Their older hardware samplers certainly could do it. Quite a few hardware instruments can read Akai samples.

    Another option is to pickup a second hand Akai sampler which would be quite cost effective and simply hook it up and control it externally via midi. But that is a hardware option and you may want to stay all virtual. The thing about a hardware sampler is that effects and filters and quite a few other things were often employed in the final preset creation. Just reading raw sample data does not always represent the final sound.

    They did make some fine samples so I don't blame you for wanting to use them. I have got three machines in my setup that can read Akai samples.
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    Re:Akay samples in Sonar 2011/08/08 09:49:12 (permalink)
    I was going to ask whether it was floppies / cd's . the chicken sys thing uses the later version of SFZ , and that can cause probs. I use extreme sample converter, not for akai though.. BUT it might only do the cd's as it needs a special tool to read floppies. if you have them in kontakt format.. you can convert em with ESC also , but again maybe depends on what you saved them out as. if it's floppies ... http://mda.smartelectronix.com/akai/ might be a tad too old
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    Re:Akay samples in Sonar 2011/08/08 09:52:42 (permalink)
    VSampler 3.5 reads AKAI-CDs. There is a demo-download. But I have never tried AKAI-CDs.
    www.vsampler.com



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    Re:Akay samples in Sonar 2011/08/08 16:17:22 (permalink)

    Hi Jeff,
    Thanks a lot for you extensive reply.
    I used to use Kontakt but somehow it is not working now and I need a quick option cos I am\in the middle
    of a job and need some of the akai samples asap to finish it up.
    I am going to google as you suggested and see what I can find.
    To answer yours and the others questions about the media, it's all CDs, but most of them I already copied to 
    a hard drive, so it needs to read straight from the HD and not the CD.


    To Fog and THambrecht, thank you for your advices.


    Thanks


    joni

    Jeff Evans


    Kontakt is one way but there are other ways too. Do a Google search with the term 'Which VST's read Akai samples' and you will turn up a few options. One way is to get a program that will enable you to read the Akai samples and convert them to another format such as sfz for example that could load up into existing Cakewalk synths. And it will be a lot cheaper than getting Kontakt just to do the same job. eg:

    http://www.extranslator.com/index.php?page=news

    or Chicken Systems Translator Pro:

    http://www.chickensys.com/

    Are you talking about 3.5" floppies or Akai CD ROMS?

    There are also a few VST's that may be able to do it. Like Emulator X2 for example, not quite sure on that but try downloading the manual to check. Their older hardware samplers certainly could do it. Quite a few hardware instruments can read Akai samples.

    Another option is to pickup a second hand Akai sampler which would be quite cost effective and simply hook it up and control it externally via midi. But that is a hardware option and you may want to stay all virtual. The thing about a hardware sampler is that effects and filters and quite a few other things were often employed in the final preset creation. Just reading raw sample data does not always represent the final sound.

    They did make some fine samples so I don't blame you for wanting to use them. I have got three machines in my setup that can read Akai samples.




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