However, as you know, Akai samplers cannot read Ensoniq CD-ROMs (only Roland and E-III format are supported). At that time, I had thought that Akai samplers could read Ensoniq CD-ROMs. The sampler I have is Akai S2800 not ASR-10.

It was CD-ROM for Ensoniq ASR series samplers. In January 1997, I have bought a second-hand CD-ROM from a local dealer. The core of akaitools has been implemented as Perl modules, so that you can write your own programs with these modules.Īkaitools includes the following programs: akaiformat - create a new file system of Akai format on HDDs akailist - list the contents of HDDs/CD-ROMs in Akai format akaimkdir - create a new directory on HDDs in Akai format akairead - extract files from HDDs/CD-ROMs in Akai format akaiwrite - write files to HDDs in Akai format epslist - list the contents of files/HDDs/CD-ROMs in Ensoniq format epsread - extract files from files/HDDs/CD-ROMs in Ensoniq format eps2akai - convert Ensoniq instrument files to Akai program/samples wav2akai - convert RIFF WAVE/PCM/16 bit files to Akai samples any2akai - convert files in various sound format to Akai format akaiconv - automatic conversion and writing for various sound formats History Moreover, akaitools is written in shell script and Perl version 5 so that it runs on almost all UNIX operating systems. Since akaitools does operations on Ensoniq/Akai HDDs and CD-ROMs through SCSI interface, it works quite faster than other MIDI- or floppy-based utilities. In addition, akaitools can directly read Ensoniq EPS files (i.e., GKH, EDA format), HDDs and CD-ROMs. One of the distinctive feature of akaitools is that it can convert Ensoniq EPS/ASR instrument files to Akai S3000 programs and samples with preserving various information such as MIDI channel number, key split, velocity split, looping information, pans, transposition, tuning, etc.

You can also convert other types of sound files (e.g., RIFF WAVE files and Ensoniq EPS instrument files) to Akai S3000 native format. With akaitools, you can directly read, write, format HDDs/CD-ROMs in Akai format via SCSI interface (read only for S1000/S1100 disks).

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