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Hold on, I'm trying the other one

It should be called "FAZ.LOUD 32S".

At least the first one from the first partition's S1000 volume.

The programs look fine to me.

Starting to think this might be a sloppy conversion job

That's for the first partition. I'll take a look at the programs themselves.

The S1000 volume contains 11 programs and a bunch of samples. The S3000 volume contains 11 programs (which I assume are S3000 versions of the same programs) and no samples (the S3000 programs probably point to the S1000 samples).

Some have empty key ranges

Some programs work, some don't even though judging from the inspector they look fine

So there's something wrong.

None of those programs have a size of 0.

volume*

And the S1000 volumes contains a couple of S1000 programs and a bunch of samples.

After inspecting the first partition manually, it seems it should contain 2 volumes. The first one should be an S1000 volume, the second one an S3000 one.

I think I read 96 anyway lmao I clicked too fast

100 programs found, 96 empty programs

(the Honda, not the AKAI)

3000* man I wish I had an S2000 lmao

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I'll keep looking into it. Its pretty weird that the samples would be fine but the programs would be wrong.

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CDXtract was able to read the .bin file directly and it had the same S2
000 empty programs

But maybe it's some sort of homebrew conversion.

I'll keep looking into it. Its pretty weird that the samples would be fine but the programs would be wrong.

AFAIK the original Ultimate Piano Collection was made specifically for the original GigaSampler, I have no idea if these AKAI versions are even official given how the Volume 2 has no mention of the S3000

They work fine and yeah seems like it, maybe some S3000 stuff?

Wait. It says there's a bunch of empty programs?

One moment

Ah

yeah, right

ah

Have you checked that the audio for the samples is actually fine. If anything is slightly wrong, that would probably be the easiest way to figure it out.

I really don't get how the mode ended up being wrong like that in the cue file.

No problem.

THANK YOU

OH MY GOD IT WORKS

Alright, lemme try that

And see if those ISOs work.

After that, try extracting the tracks into ISO files.

.cue files are just plaintext files. Just open it with any basic text editor and change MODE2 to MODE1.

(or not, it does see the .bin)

If you can tell me what I need to do on my end I'll gladly do it, not gonna make you reupload the entire thing (I think HALion only works with ISOs though)

But I'm diffing the ISOs I got just in case.

Changing "MODE2" to "MODE1" in the cue sheet seems to fix it.

Fixing it by hand would be trivial, just insert the missing bytes at the start of the file. I've tried messing both with the first 16 bytes of the bin and with the Cue sheet.

Even Awave refuses to open it (though it also refused to open one of the Roland L-CDX CDs and in that case CDXtract worked just fine)

Can it be fixed somehow?

I think I kind of know what's going on. The data within the bin looks mostly fine (I think it's an S3000 disk image); but when using bchunk to part it out into ISOs, it's missing the first 8 bytes. I think there's something slightly wrong with either the cue or the first few bytes of the bin. I'll have to look into exactly how bin+cue images work.

Just as I posted that it decided to work.

Ok. qBittorrent's a bit fussy right now. I'll get back to you when I figure this out.

(and HALion so far is my sampler of choice because I'm not touching Kontakt and I don't want to deal with iLok shenanigans for EW Opus either)