Thanks Brent, Its the ocassional email like this that makes it all worth while. Cheers, Erik Brent Busby wrote: > This thread has been very helpful for me too. Several years ago, I > sampled an entire drumset fairly exhaustively at multiple volumes, mic > distances, etc. with an Akai MPC2000 and a pair of Earthworks condenser > mics. I use the sample set a lot now that I'm living in an apartment, > partially because it's really nice, and partially because the set that > was sampled was the one I used in my band twenty years ago, so it's > fairly nostalgic that I "virtually" still have my drums. (And partially > because I'd probably be evicted if I tried to bring a drumset in > there...) Actually it's fairly eerie to listen to in headphones with no > EQ or effects -- if you sequence things a human drummer would do, which > I can do because I'm a drummer, you'd swear it was that drumset. > > The MPC2000 saves its samples in its quirky SND format that I haven't > had anything handy to translate into other formats up until now, so I've > always worried about dependence on the Akai hardware samplers. They're > still popular now, but I've seen plenty of gear become obscure that used > to be common. Even worse, the Akai filesystem is a bizarre mutation of > DOS/FAT that gets long filename capability from a kludge completely > incompatible with the one Microsoft ended up using in Windows 95 and > later. The files look like FILENAM~.EXT when mounted as FAT, and you > have no way of finding out what the real names were on the Akai from > looking at the directories in Windows or in Linux. > > Today, this thread about sndfile-info made me try (on a lark) running > sndfile-info on one of my Akai SND files, and it floored me -- it knew > everything about the sample. It saw the original Akai filename embedded > in the file. It even knew specifically that it came from an Akai > MPC2000. I tried converting it to a standard WAV with sndfile-convert, > and that worked too. > > Later, after looking at the libsndfile web site, I did see that MPC2000 > compatibility was added earlier this year, but I didn't expect that when > I tried it, so it did surprise me. Usually, when something says it has > Akai support, they mean S1000 rack sampler format. This is very useful. > > -- > + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys > + UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will > + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of > + Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, > + James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
