26 Oct
2006
26 Oct
'06
10:13 a.m.
hi all
i got this tidbit of info from stefano daino, the creator of d-sound-
pro and it's
successor, dsp quattro:
if you are supporting the older
roland samplers like the s330, s550 and s50.
only by MIDI. D-SoundPRO is still available, anyway. It runs properly
only on MacOS 8/9 and old Macs having internal floppy disc drivers.
i imagine that you do have
support for the s760 via sample dump.
by MIDI on MacOS 9 and MacOS X, by SCSI on MacOS 9 only (maybe on
MacOS 10.2, but I should check this). MacOS X does not recognize the
S760 on the SCSI, because the S760 needs a MIDI message to switch to
SCSI, and MacOS X looks for SCSI devices during the startup, so the
S760 is invisible.
so, on a mac classic system with a floppy drive you can still extract
samples from the
disk, using d-sound-pro, otherwise it is by MIDI sample dump, a
somewhat tedious process.
cheers
bruce
On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Colin Shapiro wrote:
bruce tovsky
www.skeletonhome.com
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick
What is the
most up to date version of the SAMDISK utility
regardless of platform to use that will do the best job of
extracting samples? Mac, Windows? Which name and version software?
I used the Mac version for some time (all apps are version 0.01a)
but it doesn't work anymore under Classic on my G5. Ideally you'd
need a Mac that could boot in OS9 to do the job.
Bernard at www.cdxtract.com has been asked to include the facility
of reading S550/S330 floppies in CDXtract (great conversion app)
but I don't think this has been implemented yet.
There is a trick you can try if possible:
Roland S760 samplers read S550 disks (not sure about S330 disks).
You can then re-save in S760 format onto a Zip disk, which can be
read by CDXtract and converted to the sampler format of your
choice. I've had reasonable success using this method - requires
all the hardware though....
Regards - Colin
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