Database

Instructions

Format

At the moment AKAI S900 and SFZ+Wav are supported target formats.

• SFZ is a readable text-format that can be converted to other formats using Awave or other tools.
  Plouge offers the SFZ player sforzando (AU, VST, RTAS, standalone) for free!
  Choose from 8-bit or 16-bit. Fairlight samples are 8-bit, optional 16-bit conversion is linear and has no effect on the sound. Loop points are sample accurate.
• Akai S900 is a proprietary 12-bit format suitable for AKAI S900/S950 samplers and the Oberheim DPX-1. The samplerate will be Fairlight's 14080 Hz, conversion to 12-bit from 8-bit is linear and doesn't effect the sound. Loop points are sample accurate.

Sample rate
When using a software sampler, sample rate doesn't matter.
If you are going to convert to a hardware sampler, choose an appropiate sample rate that is native to the target machine.
Note that no resampling is ever done - this only sets the playback sampling rate in the file header.
Contact me if you want more sample rates added.

Conversion details

• Looping is based on the looping information in the VC file
• Attack and release are from the CO file that's referenced in the VC (if any)
• If no CO is found, a preset will be created anyway with attack 0 s, release 0.3 s
• Extra SFZs are always generated, one with short attack and release, and one with slow attack and long release.
• Since an Akai S900 disk can contain a maximum of 64 files, fewer extra presets will be created based on the original attack and release values from the CO files.