Ok, it has been a very long time since I have done this but as best I
can recall. you can connect your mac via daisey-chain to your S-760
as long as your mac is the last on the chain. There is a specific
boot sequence but I can not remember if the S-760 or Mac have to boot
first.
Once you have established the connection you can use Peak to download
Performances or Patches (other things may also be possible). I do not
believe that you can copy items directly from the drives but things
may have changed since I did this. Essentially what you are doing is
establishing a direct connection to your S-760 for purposes of
editing and transferring Performances/Patches between the Mac and
S-760.
Also, if you save Performances or Patches to an external Roland
formatted disk (you can get up to 500mb on one disk). You can then
connect this drive directly to your Mac via SCSI. Again there is a
boot sequence but what you are going to want to do is launch Toast,
then turn on the SCSI drive. If all goes well you want to perform a
"Device Copy" (I hope that is right) with Toast and burn a CD. This
will give you a Roland formatted CD. If Kontakt reads Roland
formatted disks then you are home free, if not then use something
like CDXtract or Translator to translate the patches to Kontakt
format.
Tim
i there folks, thankyou all very very much for the kind
advice... i
have looked into several >of your suggestions... re my s760 scsi
laptop conundrum...
the best and simplest idea seemed to be one suggesting
i hook the
drives straight up to >the laptop and use bias peak to extract the
files... i cant get the laptop to talk direct to the >drives,
because as soon as it sees the disks it doesnt understand the file
structure and 0s9 >starts to try and reformat the disk... rendering
the whole process redundant? am i missing >something there?
as per one suggestion--- there is no internal disk
drive on the s760
i have here (did they >ever have one?), so the scsi port is used by
the external drives, thus cant chain a laptop >up to the drives
aswell as the sampler...
seems the best idea (please argue otherwise if you
disagree) is just
taking my box of disks >to a computer nerd friend of mine, and get
him to copy the disks as pure data, outright, >onto dvd, then load
it all straight into the main studio computer--- on tiger, running
the >new version of kontakt- which hopefully as it says on the shiny
new box will just read the >files perfectly...
what do you guys think?