multisample convertors out there?

Hello mpc heads. Grissozz is here with a few questions.

Sorry mods if i post this in the wrong section, please move this to the right one

I have copped myself a mpc 2500 a few moths ago and i get kind of stuck.
I use it to sequence my esx and a nord and it's great. The ting is i now have a great overlap having both the esx and the mpc, so i'm thinking of selling or swapping the esx for something else to improve my setup.

I'm looking for some new samples and have been searching for a while now.
Most sample packs of interest come in formats like .nnxt .esx .sf2 etc etc
These are in fact multi samples. So i have to manually downsample them and assign them to the diffrent key's and layers. This is quite tediouse work and not very satisfactory ..........
I have been googling and searching here and there for more info to shed some light but i cant really find what i'm looking for. I found something like chicken translator and fusion convertor, but they do not seem to convert to .pgm files.
Is there any converter out there that does? If so, how are it's results?
And if not what do i need to get sastisfactory or similar results?
And finally. I try to make the louder dance style music. Witch samplepacks are most recommended for this?

Hey lampdog. thanks for the reply man. But i still have questions

I have checked out this awave. its from fmjsoft right?

Have u used this or do you know in fact that this works. Cause the site say's the following about these pgm files.


.PGM - AKAI MPC 1000/2000XL/2000/3000 drum set files


Please note that the MPC-1000, the MPC-2000, the MPC-2000XL and the MPC-3000 all use different program formats although they all have the same .PGM extension. Well, actually the MPC-2000 and MPC-2000XL use the same PGM file format, but the latter (like the MPC-1000) wants samples in .WAV format, while the former wants them in .SND format (like the MPC-3000). The WAV files written will be slightly smaller than when you write directly to a WAV file in this software - it has been reported that the MPC-1000 and 2000XL can be rather picky about the WAV files, so all 'unnecessary' extra information (comments et c) that is normally written will be omitted in order to produce as 'basic' a WAV file as possible.

Is there any cheaper soft. 100 bucks for something i don't know will work is a little to much for me. money getting tight man

http://www.extranslator.com/



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