I'm looking for a solution to be able to use a large multisampled instrument that I own a copy of in Max/MSP. The idea is to do so without one of the big commercial samplers (e.g. Kontakt) which are anyway not yet available on the MacIntel side.

It seems as though translation from multisample formats to soundfonts is possible using a Windows program such as AWave, and one hopes that the Apple DLS synth or another soundfont player may cope with the result. Has anyone experience using this method? I wanted to ask before trying, because the sample instruments are quite large.

I'm looking for a solution to be able to use a large multisampled instrument that I own a copy of in Max/MSP.  The idea is to do so without one of the big commercial samplers (e.g. Kontakt) which are anyway not yet available on the MacIntel side.

It seems as though translation from multisample formats to soundfonts is possible using a Windows program such as AWave, and one hopes that the Apple DLS synth or another soundfont player may cope with the result.  Has anyone experience using this method?  I wanted to ask before trying, because the sample instruments are quite large.

Any related advice welcomed.  Thanks,
Yon


multisample-solutions-in-maxmsp-multisample-translation

> I'm looking for a solution to be able to use a large multisampled 

> instrument that I own a copy of in Max/MSP. The idea is to do so 

> without one of the big commercial samplers (e.g. Kontakt) which are 

> anyway not yet available on the MacIntel side.

and MachFive v2 is announced since almost 2 years... (I wouldn't 

> It seems as though translation from multisample formats to soundfonts 

> is possible using a Windows program such as AWave, and one hopes that 

> the Apple DLS synth or another soundfont player may cope with the 

> result. Has anyone experience using this method? I wanted to ask 

> before trying, because the sample instruments are quite large.

conversion too. It worked when I tried, converting from an Akai bank to 

soudfont, but the bank was small and I didn't test exhaustively.

Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie asbl

> I'm looking for a solution to be able to use a large multisampled 
> instrument that I own a copy of in Max/MSP.  The idea is to do so 
> without one of the big commercial samplers (e.g. Kontakt) which are 
> anyway not yet available on the MacIntel side.

and MachFive v2 is announced since almost 2 years... (I wouldn't 
recommend the current version...)

> It seems as though translation from multisample formats to soundfonts 
> is possible using a Windows program such as AWave, and one hopes that 
> the Apple DLS synth or another soundfont player may cope with the 
> result.  Has anyone experience using this method?  I wanted to ask 
> before trying, because the sample instruments are quite large.

CDXtract (http://www.cdxtract.com ), which runs on Mac & PC can do the 
conversion too. It worked when I tried, converting from an Akai bank to 
soudfont, but the bank was small and I didn't test exhaustively.

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Patrick Delges

Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie asbl
http://users.skynet.be/crfmw/max


Multisample Solutions in MaxMSP / Multisample translation?