I know chicken systems translator is the go-to program if you want to read propietary libraries on propietary drives, disks, floppies...
It's supposed to read any sample on any data device.
But can it also write propietary drives? I read up on it, but it's still not clear to me. A while back I acquired an old akai sampler, and it's great. I can make my own sounds pretty fast... Then I bought some s1000 format cd's for it at a dumping price.
My infoes tell me that to get sample cd's to transfer to the sampler, you either get an expensive scsi card for it and load samples from the pc, or I need to load them from floppies.
Now, I really don't want to go the scsi route. Been there, done that, tore up my t-shirt.
It's hell.
So, that leaves floppies. I'm cool with floppies. Still a minor niggle though. How do you get sounds from library cd's onto them? With chickensys, I can read them on a pc, but can the pc save them onto a floppy drive (usb) ?
Can translator do this?
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i know it can do zip disks on usb zip drives. i believe floppies will be pretty much the same. i had tried translator a while back and decided that it wasn't worth it's price. it was pretty buggy and slow. maybe things have changed since then.
why not use EMXP, a free command line tool to make your S1000 floppies: link edit: that application does not support usb floppy drives but you can get a pc with MSDOS and a floppy drive for much less than translator. there is "translator free" now
maybe that wasnt available before it's limited, but uncrippled, or so I believe and the ease of adding a small usb device is a big factor, I'd hate to get another big box (I know I know thats what the sampler is anyway  )chicken systems said: "Read and write proprietary drives such as Akai, Emu, etc. " what that boils down to Im not sure nnothing indicates wether these propp drives need to be internal, scsi,or usb i think that there are limitations to the functionality of the free version. when i had used it you could only make one-sample banks or keep only the first sample of a bank when translating to another type. anyway, it's just a download away (in exchange for some of your web info like emails and stuff), if you try it let us know how it works.
well, downloading it is easy
trying it is another thing; I need to buy a floppy drive, as I don't have one at the moment. So before going out to get one (if I do find one), Id like to know if it works. Is the software that old that they hadn't thought about usb floppy drives? from the chickensys website:
"With Translator Window Version 2.9 Build 112, we now support proprietary sampler floppy disks using the new Omniflop Windows XP Floppy Driver." from the Omniflop website: "OmniFlop is unlikely to work with an external USB floppy drive." i guess the chances are rather slim. i've found that's the norm when you go down the hardware sampler road. thank you delete
for digging that up not what I wanted to hear though  oh well
just have to resort to sds midi dump i guess? Signup to comment
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