Korg Electribe ES-1 Mk1 sample file batch convertor/renamer

[whyterabbyt]

Not sure if this is of any use to anyone, but I finally hooked up my (original-version Mk1) Korg Electribe ES-1 properly again, and had decided to have a mess about with uploading some new samples... and then discovered that the few, scarce, sample convertors/renamers that used to be kicking about seem to have disappeared or never been updated, and dont really want to play any more.

So this afternoon, I knocked up a Windows .bat file which makes Sox do it. It converts a bunch of samples to 32K sample rate, 16 bit, single channel .wav files, and then renames them appropriately, as the ES-1 only supports loading WAV files named 00.WAV thru to 99.WAV (or AIFF files named similarly)

You will need Sox installed. If you use a different version from 14.4.2 or dont install it to the default location, you will also need to edit the following line in the .bat file to point to the binary file.

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set soxpath="C:\Program Files (x86)\sox-14-4-2\sox"

If you drag and drop a bunch of files from a folder on the .bat file, it will do the appropriate file conversion saving them into a folder called 'es1samples' within the original folder.

Note that I havent sussed a way to control the ordering of the files as they get converted, and thus it'll appear somewhat random, so Ive also got it to spit out a textfile (files.txt) which details which files were converted into which.

This .bat could be easily adapted for other samplers or whatever which need files in a consistent specific format.
Since this is based on an example which comes with Sox, its under the GPL v2. Credit appreciated if you redistribute a modded version.

es-1 prep.zip

[mztk]

excellent machine, love my mkII.
there's a github site for the old ES1 renamer program:
https://github.com/chris-roerig/es1-renamer