![]() ![]() I doubt you´ll get the samples for free legaly though.īut who knows what happens when you google for "EII Universe of Sounds" and have some patience. Northstar Vol.3 doesn´t exist anymore, it was discontinued long time ago. 1 & 2" samples/programs are still available,- for NI Kontakt. You´d need EMU EIII sample format as the source for CDXtract.ī.t.w.,- OMI still exists, it´s "Q up Arts" today and they hold the copyright. Once the original EII (or SD EII) format is converted into a format modern sample converters can read, you´re ready to go and convert. So, the results will be EMU EIII, Emax, EmaxII, EMU EOS sample formats as well as WAV and SF2 or AKAI. Latest version also supports AKAI S-1000/3000 format. It´s free.ĬDS3TOOL is a utility that can extract Emulator-II and Emax soundbanks from CDS3/OMI cdromsĮMXP converts all kind of EMU samples across the EMU range of samplers and there are (Oberheim) DPX-1, (Sequential) Prophet 2K tools too. Load the files into the EMU EII one by one and save it to Digidesign Sounddesigner EII running on a very old MAC.īut,- when you have the files already,- download EMXP. Own,- or get access to,- a working OMI optical media drive The media discs, when existing in usable condition, aren´t readable by today´s optical media drives in any way. Originally, you needed the OMI optical media drive AND the 3 original media discs (OMI Universe of Sounds Vol.1 & 2 and Northstar Vol.3) to get access to the samples and programs. ![]() OMI and Northstar libraries for EMU EII were made for the worldwide 1st optical media (media itself and drive) ever produced for samplers. The Akai stereo samples are converted to stereo interleaved samples and they are saved in the same folder using the Aiff format.I really liked the early OMI & Northstar Libraries. The Akai programs with the same program number are automatically merged with the "AutoMerge" option, then the tuning reference is adjusted from 442 Hz to 440 Hz and the output level is set to -6dB. ![]() In the following example, we are converting an Akai disc to the EXS24 format. All the options are represented in a conversion graph that speaks for itself. That's why CDXtract 4 has an extremely intuitive representation of all the options applicable to each conversion. Moreover it's not easy for the user to understand if a given option affects or not one specific conversion. Given the number of possible conversions within CDXtract, the number of options available is quite large.Possible applications are infinite, you can for example create a new violin instrument by stacking a legato violin, a staccato violin, a tremolo violin and finally a pizzicato.ĬDXtract 4 includes a stack editor that allows you to adjust the velocity scale and the global velocity response of your new multi-layered instruments. For example you can stack them on top of each other in order to create new multi-layered programs. CDXtract 4 allows you to select several programs and combine them in different ways. CDXtract has always been a precursor and again this version 4 includes some unique features that bring the sampler conversion to a new level of creativity.That's why the number of possible conversions in CDXtract is growing at an exponential rate, while the competition is still adding one conversion at a time. So everytime we add a new destination format then all the existing source formats can be converted to this new destination format, and everytime we add a new source format then it can be converted to all the existing destination formats. Each source format and each destination format are implemented as drivers and all the conversions are performed through an internal format. Here again CDXtract benefits from a excellent design based on a driver technology. CDXtract now lets you Merge programs from multiple locations, while Stack Mode and Controller Switching let you layer samples and switch between them according to velocity or mod-wheel position, with a X-Fade function to smoothly fade between them.This guarantee that an alternate loop will always be perfectly converted whatever the destination format is. If this sample has an alternate loop then the Virtual sample object will emulate its looping mode and will provide audio data accordingly which means that the player and all the converters don't have to deal with this alternate loop problem, for them it's just a simple forward loop. Each sample read by CDXtract is handled by a special object called a "Virtual Sample", this Virtual Sample is responsible for providing audio data to any other components. One example is the support of alternate loops that are available in some hardware samplers but not in any software samplers so far. The advantage of this architecture is that the same code is not duplicated again and again, moreover it increases the overal reliability. Most of the high level functions required to work on sampler files are directly implemented in the Kernel and accessible to any format that needs to use it. CDXtract is based on a very sophisticated and robust architecture that is fully object-oriented.CDXtract provides the most reliable and powerful sampler utility for the audio professionnals. ![]()
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