Newsgroup: it.comp.musica
Titolo: ROLAND W30

Ho dei campioni su floppy per il campionatore ROLAND W 30
e vorrei portarli sul mio pc.
Esiste un modo per converire i file del Roland in formato pc,
ovvero un software che mi consenta di leggere i dischetti e
salvarli in un formato riproducibile con sound forge?
Grazie
Don Zen
Graditissima sarebbe una risposta a
don...@hotmail.com

 salvarli in un formato riproducibile con sound forge?
Temo proprio di no.
Ciao
A=MM


Certo che esiste,
puoi leggere direttamente un floppy W30 ed estrarre i singoli *toni* in un
file .WAV con una piccola utility dos che si chiama WGET
oppure puoi creare dal floppy W30 un file *immagine* .SDK con un programma
che si chiama SDISK e poi con AWAVE puoi convertirlo in una serie di formati
per vari campionatori, tra cui anche il formato SoundFont!! certo il
risultato non sara' perfetto pero' con qualche aggiustamento.....
inoltre in rete puoi trovare tantissimi file SDK da portare direttamente
sulla tua W30 o convertire nel formato che piu' ti interessa
questo e' un poi link dedicato ai campionatori Roland S sopravvissuti in
rete:
http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/archive/
qui trovi AWave
http://www.fmjsoft.com/
Altre Informazioni sui programmi in questione:
S-Disk V1.0
July, 1993
  S-Disk is an MS-DOS utility for converting Roland sampler diskettes to
  DOS files. Uses of S-Disk include the archiving on hard disk of samples,
  the transmission of samples over a serial line or network and fast
  duplication of sample diskettes.
  Sampler diskettes that are recognised are as follows:
     S750/S770
     W330
     S550
     S50
  However, S-Disk will actually work on any formatted 720K or 1.44M 3.5"
  diskette.  It just won't be able to identify what sort of diskette is in
  the drive if it does not appear in the list above.
  S-Disk is an interactive utility and responds to single letter action
  commands typed from the keyboard. These are as follows:
      R - Read the diskette in the currently selected drive to the
          designated file.
      W - Write the selected S-Disk file do the diskette in the currently
          selected drive.
      D - Specify the file and diskette drive details for subsequent
          Write or Read actions. The current settings are displayed
          in the top left corner at all times.
      Q - Exit S-Disk.
  Pressing the <ESC> key during a Read or Write operation will abort
  immediately, leaving whatever was being written to (file or diskette) in
  an undefined state.
  All messages produced by S-Disk are displayed in the scrolling Activity
  Log which displays the last three messages produced by the utility.
  S-Disk was written by Nic Grant, Carrot Top Music:
    email: 
n...@nms.otc.com.au
    snail: Carrot Top Music
           PO Box 320
           Lindfield NSW 2070
           AUSTRALIA
           Tel: +61 2 416 1841
           Fax: +61 2 906 4770
  Please feel free to distribute and use S-Disk in any way you wish,
  provided it is not sold and is accompanied by this file (sdisk.doc).
  However, if you wish to be notified of updates or would like to see any
  changes made (or bugs fixed), then feel free contact me via any of the
  methods listed above.
Utility:
This set of files contains the source code, VC++ 1.5 makefiles and
executable of for the following 5 programs:
1) tonedump : extract and dumps some parameters of a given tone on a W30
disk
2) wdir : lists all the tone on a W30 disk
3) wget : extract a tone's wave from a W30 disk and convert it into .wav
format. The compiled version will save 16bits sounds only. To save 8bits
sounds, recompilation is needed and the keyword USE8BIT should be #defined.
4) winit : writes the information needed on a blank disk to make it usable
for the W30. For more quick than the W30's format if you have pre-formatted
disks
5) wput : convert a .wav soundfile into a W30 tone. Supports stereo file
transfer.
Hope you'll enjoy them. There are already some troubles I'm already aware
of. Leave me a mail if you have any suggestion/comments.
Marc Resibois  (
m...@nit.be
)   100126,1007
Version 1.0