KVR Audio

Convolve · Post by **Convolve** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:16 pm

I just found an old AKAI Sample Disk, it says "Grand Piano" on the label, I think it was for an AKAI S2800i Sampler. Out of pure historic interest in the time of Gigabyte Sampling Libraries I want to play those samples. But I can not even read the disk.

Is there any tool to extract those samples with a standard PC floppy drive?

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:23 pm

http://mda.smartelectronix.com/akai/index.htm

Convolve · Post by **Convolve** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:11 pm

Thanks, it worked, there are a total of 18 mono samples on the disk. I loaded them into the Orion Platinum Sampler, mapped them and let a little MIDI sequence play. There is no velocity switching, no processing, nothing.

If anyone is interested you can listen to a short MP3 file here

I think this is not that bad for one little floppy

Reading of historic AKAI Grand Piano Sample Disk