And it also makesĪKAI look bad, because people cannot help get a negative impression from Quality of service for the end user that I intend. This approach, but it does not promise to allow me to implement the I've learned that there have been partially successful efforts to I don't know if you are aware of this, but since I last wrote to you, (As does Gigasampler, Unity DS-1, Reaktor, and I suppose other Software synthesis programs and perhaps other audio applications. To be able to read samples from AKAI format CDs directly into Works much like the Windows CDxtract application.Ģ. Other formats that may be required by software that does To read them and extract data and translate the samples to To be able to use AKAI format CDs on Linux, having the ability Totally crystal clear on my *specific* plans, but for now, the idea is twofold:ġ. The composer/musician to create in a "what you hear is what you get"Īnyway, those are my general thoughts regarding the matter. In the "rough draft" compositional stage, it would be much easier for Of the computer's CPU.) If the same samples (from the sample CD) were used (In order to get the best sound, with no glitches and with minimal consumption Switch to playback from a hardware synth or sampler for the final recording. To compose music using a sequencer and simple software synth, and later And there are many very rational (logical) reasonsįor example, it is (if I understand correctly) fairly common for musicians On a purely psychological/marketing note, if people have a bunch of AKAIįormat CDs already, then it is a "no brainer" to by an AKAI sampler with Help stimulate sales of AKAI samplers as well, because there are manyĪpplications where a dedicated hardware sampler is much preferable over, (and make them more valuable to a wider audience), and I think it will This will help to stimulate the sales of those CDs Of allowing owners of AKAI format sample CDs to be able to put them to Is no replacement for a dedicated sampler!) but is more in the direction My intent here is not at all to injure AKAI's sales or the success of theĪKAI sampler line (because I have learned by experience that a computer And if you're switching to FAT16/FAT32 anyway, why do you care It is with this in mind that I reiterate that I think it is in AKAI'sīest interest to be a little more open with regards to the AKAI CD-ROMįormat. If I couldn't do that, I wouldn't run Windows at all. Linux, and it's a very nice feature that allows me to run Windows as With Windows systems - I can read and write to my Windows partition from Iĭon't think it hurts Microsoft that AKAI is using "their" format! And itĬertainly makes it a lot easier for AKAI, Apple and Linux users to integrate Of the cage" and become of more general use than just with Windows. Standard that Microsoft has documented well enough for it to "slip out In your message, you wrote of the FAT16/FAT32ĭisk format as a non-proprietary format, when in fact it is a proprietary Is greater than the AKAI sampler line, or for that matter, any I understand correctly) the dominant format, which is something that The issue is that these CDs have become (if This is interesting, and causes me to more seriouslyĬonsider the possibility of owning an AKAI sampler myself in the future.Īnyway, the issue is not so much about the samplers as it is the "AKAIįormat" (S1000-S3000) CDs that are published by several sample CD vendors,Īnd AKAI too (correct?). Manual, but did not catch on to the fact that AKAI is moving toįAT16/FAT32. I had downloaded and quickly read through the S5000/S6000 sampler Will supply me with a filesystem spec if I let you know in what ways Your message seems to indicate that there is a possibility that AKAI Previous message: Steve Harris: "Re: My ideas for plugin presets"įirst of all, thanks very much for your quick reply to my inquiry.Next message: Steve Harris: "Re: Commercial sampler formats".Live will not, however, make use of the specific Soundtrack loop tags.Subject: Re: AKAI sample CD-ROM disk format specification Soundtrack Loops are supported as they are in AIFF format.Live will not, however, make use of the specific ACID loop tags. ACID Loops are supported, as they are WAV files with additional ACID loop tags.REX files can also be sliced to a new MIDI track. These can be loaded into audio tracks and will play at the tempo of the Set. REX files are supported in Live Standard and Suite.Live supports the following sample loop formats: This is because Native Instruments changed the Kontakt file format with version 4.2.2. nki files that are of version 4.2.1 or older. It is possible however to import samples using an older version of Live, such as Live 8 (available in our download archive). Note that in Live 9 and later, the import function is no longer available for Akai S - series samples. From the Ableton docs: Sampler supports the following sample formats:
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