Spectrasonics!!!

[King_Ellesar]

Woa! I heard JR say on the Live Scenes Commentary that he got his electric sitar sound for home from a spectrasonics cd. so, being intrigued, i looked up their website and listend to some of the stuff they have there. Woa! i repeat. They have a great selection for choral sounds (http://www.spectrasonics.net/symphonyvoices.html). i listened to them and it blew me away. but on the page it says Akai/Emu, Roland. Does that mean that it only can be used by those keyboards? or could i use these awesome sounds from, oh, lets say a Korg Triton Extreme? If they're limited to just those two/three, then thats a shame cuz they are the best sounds ive heard ever come from a keyboard :)

[Drusillus]

Triton Extremes can read Akai format, so you're in luck :)

Even if it couldn't I think there is software out there that can convert different sample formats back and forth. For example the new Fantom-X has support for translator software that can transform Akai or Roland-format samples into regular WAV/AIFF files. This software might be available as a standalone download on Roland's web site in a few months.

Hey look I just found this: http://www.chickensys.com/translator/ 8)

Also, I *believe* that Akai format is just a plain WAV file that has an accompanying data file (.akp?), so if it says Akai then there might be plain files on the disk. I say this because I saw a bunch of samples the other day (http://www.hollowsun.com/donations/) that were supposedly all Akai format but they were actually plain WAV files (obviously with no looping or start/end point information encoded in them however). DISCLAIMER I don't really know what I'm talking about so don't go buy an Akai sample CD on the basis of this paragraph alone :)

[Rexx]

Spectrasonics discontued supporting Kurzweil format a few years ago.

[King_Ellesar]

what about for the Korg Triton Studio? Would it work for that too?

[Drusillus]

Korg Triton Studio:

Sampling
16 bit
48 kHz stereo/mono sampling
16 Mbytes memory standard, expandable to 96 Mbytes
Maximum of 1,000multisamples/4,000samples.
Up to 128 indices can be assigned to a multisample.
AIFF, WAVE, AKAI (S1000/S3000 samples and mapped multisamples) and Korg format sample data can be loaded.
Note: TFD-1S – 4S not supported

All of this is available on Korg's website, you should check it out :wink:

[Medusa]

Of course you can use these through a "soft" sampler like Halion too if you have one. I have quite a few of these disks, very good sounds.

[Over The Edge]

Spectrasonics = 8)



I'd have to agree 100% on the choir sounds.




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