Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By Dr. Lecter Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:05 pm
Hey fam..I was wondering if that program will do extraction of modern sample libraries (such as Halion,Kontakt etc) to s3000 format,so i can load up whole keugroups with correct mapping etc. in the 4000.I've load several libraries from Akai and EMU but most of those sounds are outdated now..Thanks in advance.
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By Lampdog Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:13 pm
chicken sys has a member active on the boards, I can't remember the exact member name though.

shows up outta the blue sometimes....lol
By diegoeskryptic Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:52 pm
go to the Mvnation.com forums and look up a guy called chickeneps in the MV kit creator forums.

or just sign up at the the chicken system forums and look up a guy named Garth Hjelte. He's head programmer for the chicken systems program.

Also, if u go to the chicken systems site, it has a part on the site that tells you which files convert to which. So like you can set your destination file as s3000, and you can play around with a list of source samples (there's like a hundred of them). after you select your source sample, just hit enter and it will tell you if its compatible and other information....
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By Lampdog Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:07 pm
YEAAAHHHH, that's him. He's on these boards as well.

Very friendly dude.
By foge1 Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:36 pm
they are beta testing the osx version if we all showed enough interest they would probably support mpc1k to 4k, and who knows maybe create a kit convertor for the mpc4k.
Which would make me very happy.


You reminded me I ment to email them.
Geoff
By renegadebliss Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:14 pm
foge1 wrote:they are beta testing the osx version if we all showed enough interest they would probably support mpc1k to 4k, and who knows maybe create a kit convertor for the mpc4k.
Which would make me very happy.


You reminded me I ment to email them.
Geoff



I'll email him, what's the address?
... we definitely need a 1000 <----> 4000 translator...



Dave
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By DukeNewport Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:51 pm
foge1 wrote:they are beta testing the osx version if we all showed enough interest they would probably support mpc1k to 4k, and who knows maybe create a kit convertor for the mpc4k.

It's the release version, not beta. And it claims to be able to convert to any MPC PGM up to the 5000. There is however an issue thought converting to MPC3000 which was talked about in the forums.
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By JUKE 179r Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:40 am
Dr. Lecter wrote:Hey fam..I was wondering if that program will do extraction of modern sample libraries (such as Halion,Kontakt etc) to s3000 format


from the chicken system website, it shows Translator can:

Convert Kontakt to Akai S-3000 http://www.chickensys.com/support/software/translator/akai/kontakt.html
and
Convert halion to Akai S-3000 http://www.chickensys.com/support/software/translator/akai/halion.html
*** All for Windows OS only ***

http://www.chickensys.com/support/software/translator/format_status.php
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By AWW_NAWW Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:41 am
I found Extreme Sample Converter http://www.extranslator.com/ to be much easier to deal with and it does s5000 and z-Series conversions
By diegoeskryptic Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:27 pm
extreme coverter is def much easier and it allows u to apply vst effects to the samples!

The only difference btwn Chicken and extreme is that Chicken supports more formats. Other than that, fuggetabboutit...