Hi Folks,
This has probably been covered many times before but here goes anyway. If like me, you have spent the last 20 years using Akai samplers, S1000 then S1100 and more recently the S3000XL then you will have built up quite a collection of sounds over the years. In my case, these were stored on old hard drives, 128 MB optical removables, Jazz and Zip removables. I decided I wanted these available in Kontakt 3 and so
set about trying to figure that out.
After much trial and error and messing about, I've finally found a way of doing this that is pain free and works. Here's what you need: First in order to connect your drives to your mac, you will need a firewire to scsi converter. I bought the Ratoc FR1SX see here:
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/FR1SX.html This unit will allow you to connect to Jazz or Zip drives as it utilises an "Ultra SCSI" connector (High-density 50P female SCSI-2 connector). Ratoc also do adapters for other scsi formats.
Once I connected this up, old removables that were formatted Mac popped straight up on the desktop and were easily copied to my current system. This was handy as I also had Mac files backed up over the years that I've had no access to. Seeing as how I started out on a Mac SE30,
it was great to get at these again.
Ok, so after this when you try to read an Akai formatted disk, it will not be seen by Kontakt directly. The Mac knows it's there and will come up with the dialog " This disk is unreadable, do you wish to eject, initialise or ignore. You need a piece of software called CDXTRACT. See here:
http://www.cdxtract.com/cdxtract.php With this software, you simply click 'Ignore" and from within the disk pull-down in CDXtract, select 'search for sampler disks' and hey presto, up pops all your AKAI volumes, programs and files. You can now 'convert' these to Kontakt format and store
them in your Kontakt library. Happy days
Life is good and all those vintage sounds that you so carefully stored away for future use are available again.
Terrific
Hotso
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