But I wouldn't necessarily count on great support from either company. I would say this: if you can successfully get both programs' demos to run, make your decision based on how you feel about their operation first, feature set second. Now, just to be fair, writing a translation program represents no lack of serious effort on the part of its programmers, and I'm sure the Rubber Chicken guys wouldn't be in business if their software was an outright waste of time. You can search for any program or sample by simply. Regarding those bugs, repeated emails to them to fix a tuning bug (the 442->440 tuning option) and an application-switching/display bug went unanswered. CDXTRACT includes a hierarchical database that can store an unlimited number of Akai, Roland and EMU disks. But aside from that, it's a tremendous program, works great! So far I've found two small bugs in the program. I tried the demo, it worked first time out, and I bought it. But the number of translations it offers are tremendous. Converting sample libraries using CDXtract for EXS24 Paul Waller 2.08K subscribers Subscribe 17K views 9 years ago Paul Waller demonstrates how to use CDXtract to convert samples from various. It's so PC-ported-over-to-Mac in appearance. And though beauty is only skin-deep, I was not impressed or inspired by their interface. I have to open and close my cd tray several times in order for the cd. When I did eventually get someone on the phone they didn't know what to suggest to get the demo running. My computer is having tremendous difficulty reading these roland cds using cdxtract. I couldn't ever get the Rubber Chicken demo version to work, either on OS9 or OSX, and several phone calls and emails to their rep went unreturned. Ive had only good experiences using the software (converting old Roland CD-ROMs to EXS24 format) and good service/support. i do not have ready access to a current gen mac (os9 anyone?) to test this.Speaking from experience with both of these companies, I don't know that one provides better support that the other. if you have access to both, try the other platform. CDXtract converts all your sampler CDs (Akai, Roland, EMU, Kurzweil) and. supposedly the mac version can extract a few more variants than the windows can, and vice versa. PATCHMAN MUSIC exclusively offers the best-selling 2000-Series CD ROM. you'd name them 000.img through 100.img or however many you have in the usb stick. nice, but not always complete.Īnd CDXtract (nice to find out about!) only works for some of these. on a fat/fat32 formatted usb stick (which later gets plugged into the relevant port on a given device, or the floppy emulator for older modified units), you place a given set of. if you have the right hardware, they should work if you're doing it right. There's supposedly ways to get certain windows based img burning programs to work with it, but i can't guarantee anything working right anymore, as the guides for it are fairly old.Įvery single one loads on appropriate hardware. your computer won't see it, even if some OSes will write to disc/raw read them to files. EDIT: Theres a keygen program for CDxtract located in one of the archives that was detected as malware by a few things. You can find a full list in the sidebar named DOWNLOAD OPTIONS under 7Z. and even with it on a cd, it still requires a roland device to put it in, as its a proprietary format. Huge archive of about 180 old sample CDs () Contains the X-Static Goldmine, the Datafiles, Distorted Reality, and Methods of Mayhem. Note: alternatively you may be able to dd these in linux to a disc if you have a writer that will do direct 1:1 writes of files like some usb/floppy img writers will in windows. 1.04 files, and requires actual roland hardware capable of utilizing them. search engines are your friend.Īgain, these are valid SYS-772 HardDisk Sys Ver. CDXtract converts all your sampler CDs (Akai, Roland, EMU, Kurzweil.) and files (Giga, Soundfont, Kontakt, Halion, EXS24. getting each device to boot from the files is going to vary too much to list them all here. On a fat/fat32 formatted usb stick (which later gets plugged into the relevant port on a given device, or the floppy emulator for older modified units), you place a given set of. img, and will only work on actual roland hardware. To start off these are _not_ ISO standard cdrom images, they are roland disk images.
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