I then have to rip an image of the MO drive using again the highly useful “Extreme Sample Converter”. The Akai S2000 can only use 230MB MO disks so I can only create a maximum 230MB CD-Rom.ĥ. What I do for that is first save the multisampled patches from the Akai S2000 to an MO disk drive connected via SCSI. Once I have the sample imported into the Akai S2000, I can stop there, OR, I can import them into the Roland MV-8000. In both cases you need an internal SCSI card and not a PCMCIA card SCSI device.Ĥ.
I can also use Windows XP which works fine too, but like Windows 98 a little better. It must be a card slotted inside the computer. I found that using any sort of PCMCIA SCSI or USB SCSI will not work. Note that I use a Windows 98 computer with an INTERNAL SCSI card connected to an Akai S2000.
It’s VERY stable and most importantly it keeps the true nature of the multisample patches in tact. It works perfectly for importing MESA patches into the S2000. I can’t remember where I got it but I remember a guy named Jan used to program it.
I now take the AKAI Mesa files created by CD Xtract 4 and import them into Millenium Pro which is a program I found on an old hard drive from WAAAY back.
Translator 6 works fine if I import into the Akai S2000 only, but later when I want to import into the Roland MV-8000, I notice major patch issues which I isolated to Translator 6 changing the original patch attributes.ģ. Again if I use Awave Studio or Translator 6 it alters the patch files and they don’t sound correctly. For the second step, I translate the Akai S5000 files into Akai MESA format using CD Xtract 4.
They alter the patch settings too much, but ESC keeps them virtually untouched.Ģ. I’ve used Awave Studio and Translator 6 without success. Convert the Emulator X2 Universe of Sounds patches into Akai S5000 format using Extreme Sampler Converter. I then found that if I did the following I could import these into the Akai S2000 perfectly.ġ. A while back I successfully converted the E-MU Universe of Sounds CD Roms to Emulator X2 format on my computer.
I finally found a solution that works incredibly well and I’ll use my “Universe of Sounds” for the E-MU Emulator II series as an example. The Akai S2000 is a fun sampler and I’ve always liked the sound, BUT, it’s never been easy to import and map samples across the keys. In my case I usually use a Roland A-90 Expandable Controller. I must stress that the main task I am trying to achieve is to import samples into the Akai S2000 / Roland MV-8000 as instruments for playback using a midi keyboard controller. Thus I thought I’d outline my workflow below in case it helps give ideas to others interested in doing something similar with either of these devices. I also mentioned the Akai S2000 in my title because I have also found a new way to work with importing samples to the S2000 which in turn I can create a CD-Rom for import into the MV-8000 which works flawlessly. Not only could I create a beat, or loop a phrase, but I also could playback any sort of Akai, E-MU, Ensoniq, or Roland multisample from a collection of sample CDs that I have acquired. What particularly interested me was the ability for the MV-8000 to work fully with creating instruments using multisamples imported or created by sampling. Working with phrases, the pads, and sequencer are all pretty straight forward. So far it does just about everything I’ve asked it to do and what it does, it does very well. So I snagged it while I could and I must say it’s been a blast working with it. I actually had my eye on this for the past two years and gradually watched the price hit rock bottom and to the point where I thought it was only a matter of days before someone saw the great deal. Recently I picked up a used Roland MV-8000 at a small second hand shop in a remote area of Nagano-city, Japan.