Is anyone else using this app to translate CD programs? I can’t get my new system to recognize sampler data partitions on the discs. When I connect the disc drive to my Mojave MacBook it works fine, but as soon as I connect the same drive/cd to my M1 Mac mini, it doesn’t see the data at all. I’ve tried giving translator full disk access to all mounted drives in security preferences, but no luck.
Is anyone else having luck?
Chicken Systems Translator 7 on Silicon
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- KVRAF
- 3362 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from People's Republic of Minnesota
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- KVRAF
- 2069 posts since 8 Feb, 2013 from Switzerland
Guess Chicken Systems is working on a special Apple Silicon M1 T7 version but didn't released yet. You can send an email right from inside T7. Menu: Help > Support > Mail
Meanwhile you can try a workaround: Create images from your CD-ROMs in T7 on your Mojave MacBook and try to open them (inside T7) on your M1 Mac mini.
Meanwhile you can try a workaround: Create images from your CD-ROMs in T7 on your Mojave MacBook and try to open them (inside T7) on your M1 Mac mini.
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- KVRAF
- 9578 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
Don’t sell your Mojave Macbook...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3362 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from People's Republic of Minnesota
Lol. Agreed. I’ll probably hold onto it until it dies.
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- KVRAF
- 2140 posts since 16 Jan, 2013 from USA
M1's brand new. Give it a year or two for everyone to catch up.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3362 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from People's Republic of Minnesota
Good point. In general I’m pretty pleased with it. The single core performance alone is twice as fast as my MacBook Pro and it was cheaper by about $500. Adjusted for inflation from when I purchased my MBP it’s about $650 cheaper and twice as powerful. I can’t wait to see what they do with their next silicon chip coming down the line for their 16” MBP.
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- KVRAF
- 2393 posts since 29 Jun, 2005 from La La Land
I don't think it's just a Mac problem. I had the same problem on Windows 10 since I upgraded to Translator 7. I was forced to have Translator 7 create a "virtual drive" for it to read my Akai CD's. Took freakin' forever which was not the end of the world, but it didn't translate any of the parameter settings to any of my samplers very well. It kind of felt like I wiped my face with a dirty sock. It's always gonna be a hell day when I have open up that software. Effing hate it.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3362 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from People's Republic of Minnesota
Yes it works like complete shit but it’s the only software that does it, right? I always have to tweak settings whenever I translate. Every time I translate my EXS libraries to Tal-sampler it does stupid shit like engage alternate panning modulation for each note or engage the low pass filter and then turn the cutoff all the way down. Completely moronic.
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- KVRAF
- 2393 posts since 29 Jun, 2005 from La La Land
That was one of the samplers I was trying to translate to, and it went exactly as you just said. The only one that worked out half way decent was Kontakt. There was another software "Extreme Sample Converter" but development stopped a long time ago. It's a shame because it worked really well, and was a pleasure to use.masterhiggins wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:05 am Yes it works like complete shit but it’s the only software that does it, right? I always have to tweak settings whenever I translate. Every time I translate my EXS libraries to Tal-sampler it does stupid shit like engage alternate panning modulation for each note or engage the low pass filter and then turn the cutoff all the way down. Completely moronic.
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- KVRer
- 1 posts since 2 Sep, 2020
At first I didn't want to write negatively about this software as Garth really tried to help to fix the issues but this software has *a lot* of issues and now I understand why lots of people hate it and I also regret my purchase. In the end I deleted this software and I tried to forget it. Instead I created my own sample extraction and transfer environment with tools like CDxtract and Extreme Sample Converter (both are really nice, lean and fast) and my own customized version of akaiutil (an open source tool to create Akai disks) which I'm now really happy with.
Getting Translator running on Windows with SCSI2SD was possible in the end but everything is so sluggish and buggy it's really hard to use it. I tried it for several weeks though. But the UI delivers a really bad user experience as it doesn't have any responsiveness. It's really extreme on Windows. And no, they don't really fix the stuff as it seems to me they (or Garth alone) coded a huge patchwork in which many unexperienced and untalented developers added their lines of code over the last 20 or whatever years. Their software architecture is a mess - I don't want to know how many workarounds and hacks they added. I analyzed it a bit and found out it uses some strange commercial try-hard-to-be-cross-platform BASIC (!) development framework called Xojo.
Honestly I think it's a software which normally needs to be completely recoded but I don't think they have the budget for that so they try to make it look like a supadupa software with years of experience in the industry but in the end they're just cheating you even if they're answering your bug reports via e-mail. They always tell you you can call them by phone but that won't solve the problems. Also Garth can really be a rude bigmouth which makes the whole customer experience even worse. And yes, there are a bunch of customers who actually use the software but from what I read in the internet most of their users have similar problems with reliability, stability and they miss a clean approach.
In any case my advice is to avoid this software in order to save your time, nerves and your sample libraries.
I feel really sorry for this damning report but I really think this must be said.
A disappointed customer.
Getting Translator running on Windows with SCSI2SD was possible in the end but everything is so sluggish and buggy it's really hard to use it. I tried it for several weeks though. But the UI delivers a really bad user experience as it doesn't have any responsiveness. It's really extreme on Windows. And no, they don't really fix the stuff as it seems to me they (or Garth alone) coded a huge patchwork in which many unexperienced and untalented developers added their lines of code over the last 20 or whatever years. Their software architecture is a mess - I don't want to know how many workarounds and hacks they added. I analyzed it a bit and found out it uses some strange commercial try-hard-to-be-cross-platform BASIC (!) development framework called Xojo.
Honestly I think it's a software which normally needs to be completely recoded but I don't think they have the budget for that so they try to make it look like a supadupa software with years of experience in the industry but in the end they're just cheating you even if they're answering your bug reports via e-mail. They always tell you you can call them by phone but that won't solve the problems. Also Garth can really be a rude bigmouth which makes the whole customer experience even worse. And yes, there are a bunch of customers who actually use the software but from what I read in the internet most of their users have similar problems with reliability, stability and they miss a clean approach.
In any case my advice is to avoid this software in order to save your time, nerves and your sample libraries.
I feel really sorry for this damning report but I really think this must be said.
A disappointed customer.
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- KVRAF
- 2473 posts since 25 Sep, 2014 from Specific Northwest
Xojo used to be RealBASIC, which was a dead solid product for Mac and Windows. I have a utility built around 2010 in it, still running today. I've no experience with Xojo, however, but I can only guess it's gone downhill, trying to run everywhere like Java. On the plus side, there should be only one code base for any platform it's meant to run on, but I imagine the big difficulty is handling disk ops where bare metal access is required. The old sampler disks used odd, nonstandard formats that required direct access and I imagine this is quite difficult to do in modern OSes that abstract away that access. (As an example, I used to use Omniflop on XP, which wouldn't work with a USB floppy drive--it had to be on a floppy controller for these reasons.)
I've never used the software, but have considered it often for its breadth. It's sad to see that there are so many negative feelings about it. Now that I no longer have any hardware samplers, it's moot at this point.
I've never used the software, but have considered it often for its breadth. It's sad to see that there are so many negative feelings about it. Now that I no longer have any hardware samplers, it's moot at this point.
I started on Logic 5 with a PowerBook G4 550Mhz. I now have a MacBook Air M1 and it's ~165x faster! So, why is my music not proportionally better? 