![]() And thanks to its magic player you can now listen to an Akai, Roland or EMU disc as if it were a regular audio CD. CDXTRACT converts your sampler files to the most popular formats with a very high accuracy. All kind of conversions are possible, single, bulk but also CDXTRACT includes a batch converter that allows you to select your favorite programs or samples and convert them with a few mouse clicks. Unlike the other converters, CDXTRACT has no limitation of destination formats for one specific source format. All source formats can be converted to all destination formats. CDXTRACT 4 allows to combine several programs together in various manners. You can merge programs, you can combine several programs on top of each other (velocity stacking) or use a controler to switch from one program to another. Also you can combine 2 programs with a crossfade on a controler. And thanks to its multi-context technology, you can do all that with programs from many different locations. CDXTRACT includes a hierarchical database that can store an unlimited number of Akai, Roland and EMU disks.ĬDXTRACT allows you to create your own banks for the following formats: Soundfont, Giga, Halion and VSampler. and CDXTRACT will give you a detailed list of all the items that match your request.How To Mount or Read Akai Sample CD-ROM On A MAC Explained You can search for any program or sample by simply entering a few keywords, such as: "snap", "guit", "bass", "drum". Hello, I have not been here in awhile but I am back at the MPC2K V.1 bangin' it out. My hard drive crashed with all my samples I have compiled over the years. In order to rebuild my sample library I dusted off a few old AKAI Sample CDs that I received as freebies. The CD-ROMs are in AKAI proprietary format. Oh yeah and I don't have CD drive for my MPC2000. I usually just drop the samples and programs on to a zip drive or floppy disk from my MAC/PC then transfer them to MPC that way. Many consisted of high priced software or dead or defunct software only meant for PCs.ĬDXTRACT for Windows, Mac OS9 and Mac OSXĪkaiDisk Reader S-Series Sampler Windows 3.1, 95, ME and XP NOT on NT Systems Well after a few hours of searching the internet I found several high priced solutions. None of those solutions were going to work for me because I buy most of my samples online in packs that are ready to go. Recently, Sample CD-ROMs and DVDs have been appearing on eBay for little or nothing but not an incentive to invest $100 in software that I was only going to use once or maybe twice a year.Ģ. You will be prompted that the disc is not recognizable or unreadable. Proceed to the Application/Utilities folder then open Disk Utility a free program offered in many MAC OSX versions.Ĥ. Once disk is inserted you should the CD icon appearing just under your DVD drive volume, on the left side of the window in the volume list.ĥ.Click on the icon to highlight the item, it may named " disk1s0".Ħ. Find and click on the " New Image" selection at the very top of Disk Utility.ħ. You will be then given a new window that will require you to name the image you are about to create, so name it.Ĩ. CDXTRACT is an intuitive and very fast browser for all your sampler files and audio files. Under "Image Format" select DVD/CD masterġ2. After several minutes depending on the size of the DVD/CD your new image will appear.ġ3. If you saved your new image to the desktop. Double click the image and it should mount successfully.ġ4. Open the enclosed folder and you should now be able to read and copy all the MPC wav., snd., programs and etc., to any media or device for transfer to your MPC. ![]() PC USERS!!! I think you can use Alcohol 120 to perform the same task as explained here. I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong and add if that info, so stay tuned. Cdxtract is described as Universal Sampler format converter and is an app. If this post is redundant, in the wrong place or irrelevant please delete. There are 2 alternatives to Cdxtract for Windows and Mac. The best alternative is Chicken Systems Translator Pro.
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