Hi Colin and everyone! Nice to see some activity on this list too. I have many disks for my S330 and have given thought to archive them. I was either going to use the S-Mac and/or 'dd' command on Linux to create an image of each floppy as a directory, and then burn the whole thing to CD-ROM. Of course, I would want to have the samples exacted too since there is no telling if any sort of format from the Roland sampler library would be supported. It seems a shame to have to lose the set-ups for the samples and patches themselves by going to another format whatever that might be. But at the very least, preserving the raw samples is possible. Yes, there might be better samples available now for certain things, but those you created yourself or edited it would be good to keep them. Hard to believe that hundreds of those floppy disks could be stored on a single CD-ROM now for less than the price of what I paid for a single 3.5 floppy disk. :-) Loading them into Mach 5 would also be a good idea as well! David A. Roth david(a)roth-music.com On May 4, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Colin Shapiro wrote: > Hi folks, > > There hasn't been any action on this group for months so I thought > I'd get something going.... > > I hardly use my S550 anymore but I have literally hundreds of > floppy disks of sounds. It seems a shame for all of these to > not be > used anymore. This is really just laziness and ease of use - I > work > with Logic Pro 8 and tend to use their EXS24 sampler exclusively. > > I have the old S-Mac set of utilities for reading and writing S550 > disks and sometimes use them to just lift sounds off the floppies, > for import into EXS24. This works okay for very simple things like > drum samples and hits. > > I also use CDXtract and sometimes Translator to convert S760 disks > and these work well. I know it's possible to do a convert load of > S550 disks into S760, then convert via CDXtract to EXS24, but this > is is long process. To add to this, my S760 has suddenly become > sick and says I only have 1.2 MB RAM - I actually have 32MB. (But > that's another problem....) > > Has anyone come across new (or old) utilities for bringing S550 > sample disks into the 21st century? Something to read and convert > these precious old treasures..... > > Regards - Colin > _______________________________________________ > Sent by the sgroup mailing list > sgroup(a)sgroup.ca > For subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.sgroup.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > sgroup > See http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/ for more information. _______________________________________________ Sent by the sgroup mailing list sgroup(a)sgroup.ca For subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.sgroup.ca/mailman/listinfo/ sgroup See http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/ for more information.