Sound Libraries

BARRY CRAIG · Post by **BARRY CRAIG** » Sat May 14, 2011 11:17 pm

I have quite a selection of sound libraries collected over the years. Many are Kurtzweil native, and others are Akai native.

How does the O react to "foreign" sound libraries? With the Kurtzweil K2000R, I had to make a template for the Akai sounds and just keep copying new samples into it, since all the parameters were zero'ed out. Effects were also zero'ed out to whatever the first effect is in the Kurtzweil.

I was just wondering how the O handles all this info. Also, are there any good OASYS libraries available?

Thanks,
Barry

Mike Conway · Post by **Mike Conway** » Sun May 15, 2011 8:06 am

OASYS supposedly supports Akai format libraries, so give them a try. KARO make some nice OASYS libraries.

Post by **Sharp** » Sun May 15, 2011 10:48 am

Your options with OASYS are AKAI, KARO and myself.

AKAI.... it will read S1000/S3000 format perfectly. It has full import of filters, and will create the PCG files itself during loading.

KARO... which Mike has linked to above....

And myself.... here.

For the OASYS I've only 2 libraries. A Piano library and the mega OASYS ASSAULT. There's also a program available for creating custom versions of the OASYS ASSAULT library, which is a first for any KORG library in the world.

This app allows you to only load the sounds you want to keep without wasting a single Kb of memory, where without the progarm customising any library is a big manual task.

Regards
Sharp.

kenackr · Post by **kenackr** » Sun May 15, 2011 4:08 pm

Sharp,

I looked at your last post & in particular the word "avoidable", I assume you meant available?

Ken

Mike Conway · Post by **Mike Conway** » Sun May 15, 2011 4:17 pm

Sharp wrote:Your options with OASYS are AKAI, KARO and myself.

I thought about OASYS ASSAULT and assumed it was being represented at KARO's site. Good to know where this is all at.

BARRY CRAIG · Post by **BARRY CRAIG** » Sun May 15, 2011 4:28 pm

Thanks for all the feedback, guys. I'm assuming if I try out one of my Akai libraries, that the OASYS will give me the option of which bank to load to...

Post by **Sharp** » Sun May 15, 2011 4:36 pm

kenackr wrote:Sharp,

I looked at your last post & in particular the word "avoidable", I assume you meant available?

Ken

D'oh .... Yeah, my iPhone changed the word on me when I had it typed. Happens often. I must clear out the custom dictionary and start over. It's picked up a few bad habits from me not being as accurate as I could be at typing.

Thanks.
Sharp.

Post by **Sharp** » Sun May 15, 2011 4:39 pm

BARRY CRAIG wrote:Thanks for all the feedback, guys. I'm assuming if I try out one of my Akai libraries, that the OASYS will give me the option of which bank to load to...

Yep... sure does. It will even make COMBI sounds if needed.

Regards
Sharp.

BARRY CRAIG · Post by **BARRY CRAIG** » Mon May 16, 2011 8:57 pm

Just to folllow up, I attempted to load an AKAI formatted sample library, and it did load sounds so they could be played on C4 or thereabouts. It seems like there might be some necessary work to do in mapping it to say, C3. This is from a SoundScan library that came out in early 2000s. They were very affordable, and the sounds were actually very good. I have several of them. They only gave you around 50 sounds but the price was right. When I loaded the disc, it showed up as Partitions A,B,C,D etc.

For the first time out, they all sounded pretty good. There's probably further manipulation would improve flexibility.

I would like to find out more about the OASYS disc(s) by Sharp. He can contact me at trancept@aol.com.

Thanks again!
Barry