Yeah you're right. The key to succeed is to know the basics with the command prompt. It took me some time to understand that the vertical shit | means you have the choice between what is written before and after.
I think I'm gonna do a short tutorial. I already took print screens.
The sample dump has only an influence on the parameters of the edit sample menu so any solutions based on the floppy disc image are better in my opinion (because we can customize programs too)
jazzroom> yeah doing the contrary would be more interesting. I don't have much knowledge about old software though. Nevertheless you can achieve what you want to do with omniflop and awave studio.
I can write what I did if you wanna try before I do that how-to
-I have the midi out of the soundcard connected to the midi in of the s950
-I pull off my default program floppy disc at the start-up of the s950
on the computer side I have unzipped the s900dump zip at the root of the hard-drive
in that unzipped folder i put a 16 bit mono PCM sample that I renamed OHH.WAV
Then in windows XP I clicked on RUN then typed cmd in the dialog box
By doing that the command prompt has appeared
Then I want to go at the root of the hard-drive where the s900dump folder is located
so i type "cd.." two times. It's the command directory stuff
Then I'm at c:\ so i type "cd s900dump" to go at c:\s900dump\
Now i can use the program
http://web.archive.org/web/20061206124024rn_2/s900.xpyro.com/bs2002/here is what you can do :
Use: s900dump wavefile [-m|-midiport midiPort] [-n|-number smpNumber]
[-a|-name "samplename"] [-r|-replay O|L|A] [-v|-reverse no|yes]
[-s|-start smpStart] [-e|-end smpEnd] [-l|-loop smpLoop]
[-o|-loud smpLoudness] [-p|-pitch smpPitch] [-c|-crossfade no|yes]
with the options :
Options:
wavefile : Path to wave file. 16bit-mono
-m|-midiport : Midi out port. Choose one from this list:
(0) EWS88 MT MIDI-1 (1)
(1) USB-2-MIDI Output A
(2) USB-2-MIDI Output B
-n|-number : Current number of samples in your S900/S950.
-a|-name : AKAI sample name. Max 10 characters.
-r|-replay : Replay mode. (O)ne shot | (L)ooping | (A)lternating.
-v|-reverse : Sample reversed. no|yes.
-s|-start : Sample start point. Measured in samples.
-e|-end : Sample end point. Measured in samples.
-l|-loop : Sample loop-length. Measured in samples.
-o|-loud : Sample loudness. Range: -50 to 50.
-p|-pitch : Pitch, in 1/16 semitones (960=C3). Range: 384 to 1536.
-c|-crossfade : Velocity crossfade sample. no|yes.
-?|-h|-help : Show this help.
so like I said earlier the vertical pipe means you can chose between the two
For instance I wrote s900dump OHH.WAV -m(0) -a "test" -o 50 -p 384
and in the s950 it will become "test" rather than "ohh" with loudness at 50 and with the lowest midi note.
in that example my sound card is recognized at (0) so it became -m(0)
the "pitch" command affect the midi NOTE.
What is tricky is that you have to be careful when you type the command. I had written that message without being in front of my other computer and my music gear so forgive me if I did a mistake. Plus I'm not sure if the windows or DOS command are the same in a french or an US XP operating system so be careful.
Peace
