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This may prevent you examining some commercial libraries, but otherwise I found the range of ExSC formats very comprehensive. Those with hardware samplers can also audition sounds from proprietary formats such as CD‑ROMs, Zip and magneto‑optical drives, as well as virtual disks hard drive files that contain raw data copied from such formats). I had no problems reading Akai and Emu CD‑ROMs, nor virtual disk copies taken from old Syquest 270MB cartridges used many years ago with my Akai hardware sampler. You can also create your own virtual disks and copy them onto Zip or MO media. The various sample formats are also displayed with different icons, making it easy to see at a glance whether you're dealing with mono or stereo files in 16‑bit, 24‑bit or 32‑bit depth. This might sound trivial, but I quickly spotted some 32‑bit samples that I'd been working on and forgotten to convert to 16‑bit in their final versions, thus halving their file size. The USB ones are still a tenner though and the disks are dirt cheap, like £1 each or so.Overall, I quickly learned more about the sample libraries in my collection with ExSC than I had with any previous audio editor. Last year you could have bought SCSI zip drives and CD drives for a fiver. This kind of old gear is becoming more and more expensive as people are getting back into doing music on real hardware.

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Remember: the CDS CANNOT be read by the PC The CDs can then be used in the AKAI with an external SCSI CD drive.

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Once you have the ISO file, then you can use IMGBurn as explained in my previous post, to burn the ISO to CD. I forgot what I used but will post again in a couple of weeks when I have time to test it again. Unfortunately IMGBurn cannot be used here because it can only image CDs, not hard drives or Zip disks. When you have saved all your stuff on it, move the DISK to the USB drive connected to the PC (Windows 10 64-bit is OK too) and use an imaging program to create an ISO of it. One needs to be a SCSI one (to connect to the AKAI) and the other a USB one (for the PC).Ĭonnect the SCSI one to the AKAI and do your thing. Best are the 250MB models cause they can fit more. The best/cheapest way to create AKAI format CDs with YOUR OWN samples on a modern PC is to use TWO ZIP drives.

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However, nowadays it would be impossible and/or extremely expensive to do on a Windows 10 machine (SCSI to USB adapters go for £100 or more second hand and are VERY slow!) I found that Toshiba and Panasonic ones are safe. I recommend you get quality blank CDs and do not burn them at more than 8 or 16 speed: old SCSI CD-ROM drives that work with AKAI samplers will struggle reading the faint tracks that are recorded when you burn at more than 16XīTW if you are getting an external SCSI CD-Rom drive for an AKAI, avoid NEC early models and, to be safe, avoid Apple branded ones as they used NEC drives. Make sure you have an external hard drive with around 200GB to back up all the ISOs

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I downloaded them all first, then installed the trial version of Daemon Tools (15-day free trial) and converted them to ISO.īought a whole load of blank CDs and now I can burn them at leisure There is a link on this site to a huge libray with almost 150 images and most of them are MDX.

You will need a USB CD Writer if your computer does not have a built in one. Use ImgBurn (it's free) to create CD-Roms straight from the ISO. When you have the ISO file, DO NOT mount in in Windows. The main thing is to convert the images to ISO first (many of them are MDX and require Daemon Tools to convert). Creating Akai CD-Roms from disc images is not a problem in Windows, even in Windows 10, although it might be trickier on a MAC.