MP3 import, override Quicktime, use Lame?
Mentioned here.
Nope. I’m referring to after having clicked an EXS on the Disk Browser. It then asks for where the actual Samples themselves are. a savable Default location for where to try and locate the wavefiles for the .exs files is what would be wonderful. mxb: is it possible to glean the path referred to in the .exs file itself ? If not, then a default sample load folder would be very decent.
Ok, tried this out, and there is a key omission on the akp format - I couldn’t figure out if there’s a workaround or not.
A of the akps I have are drum kits that don’t use keytracking. That is to say, they play at the original pitch and speed no matter where they are on the keyboard. They’re not doing that when imported, so I need to change the program into a “Drumkit” which automatically remaps the basenote. That’s not a terrible workaround but I did kind of have the original note mappings under my fingers before…
great work!
wonder if anyone has decrypted rx2
doesn’t propellorhead provide any info on this?
What is the path to the instrument file and the path to the samples?
Currently searched paths for samples are as follows (relative to instrument file (.exs/.sxt/.akp/etc)):
- ./
- .//
- ./samples/
- ./-samples/
- ./_samples/
- ./ samples/
I can update this list if required if there is a standard sample location I have missed.
Please PM me further details of the expected behaviour and a link to an archive with the akp file and samples (as a test case) and I’ll take a look at this for you.
Thanks
~/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments/
and subfolders there-of…
Sent! Thanks!
Thanks for the example patch.
As I was already on the computer I’ve had a look at this issue.
The base note for samples on the Akai S5k/S6k/etc is stored in the actual audio file (.wav). In the example patch that you sent, none of these had been changed from the default (C4), probably because they were ignored by the sampler (keytracking off).
The workaround I have implemented is that if and only if the keyrange is a single note (e.g. for a drum kit) then the base note will also be set to this note overiding any setting in the audio file. This should not have any affect upon more ‘instrument’ style patches, yet should fix the issue you highlighted.
I’ve given it a quick test and it appears to work fine so I’ll roll this into the next update.
Thanks for reporting the issue clearly and with an example patch.
As a side note for other users, if you find a bug in this tool please supply an example patch exhibiting the behaviour and a clear decription of what occurs and what what expected to myself via private message. This makes identifying the issue much easier.
Thanks
Where in the code is this, what file and line? I’ll write you a patch.
The convention is:
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Instruments
For example:
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Instruments/Vibraphone.exs
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Vibraphone/*.*
/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments/
~/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments
For instance like
~/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments/keys/03rw-Ethnic/Gendar
~/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments/keys/03rw-Ethnic/Gendar/Gendar - wav
The function is called ‘get_samples_path’ and expects three arguments: instrument_name, instrument_path, sample_filename for testing purposes. It is located around line 69 in files ‘support/file_tools.lua’
Sounds like a simple check should be:
"/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/" .. instrument_name .. "/" .. sample_filename
Is this correct? (I don’t have a Mac to test) Is the path an absolute path (i.e. ‘Library’ is in the root dir (‘/’) and not in the Users home directory (‘~/’))?
If so I’ll also roll this into the update coming soon.
It’s good to have /Library and ~/Library for OSX users, just in case 
Absolute path (“/Library”) has been added into the search.
The home directory library (“~/Library”) is more difficult but I am currently investigating if os.getenv(“HOME”) works. I can test this on Linux.
If anyone has a Mac can they please go to the scripting windows terminal and type the following:
print(os.getenv("HOME"))
… and PM the results to myself.
Thanks
PM’d, but anyway, this outputs the “home folder” location on OSX, so for me it’d be /Users/esaruoho
Okay, I’ve taken all the feedback from this thread so far and I’m just running a new version through it’s paces before uploading to the Renoise website. It appears to work fine on Windows and I’m going to test on Linux later.
Changelog for upcoming version:
- Workaround for AKP Akai ‘drumkit style’ programs
- Additional sample search paths for OSX
- Maybe a few additional import filters
Longer term plans:
- Adding in reading loop points from Reason NN-XT patches. I would need someone to create a set of test cases for me to investigate this. If anyone has Reason and is interested, please PM me.
- I’d like to incorporate a tool preferences dialog that would allow users to specify a few (say 4) folders that would be searched for samples. However, I never really got along with the ViewBuilder in Renoise. If anyone else would like to start taking a look at this I’d add it into upcoming versions.
Why am I getting an Access Denied page when trying to download the file?
I’ve just uploaded version 1.1 to the tools page following various feedback.
I have fixed a number of bugs, the main ones are:
- Extra CR characters causing issues on Unix based systems
- Loading REX files will clear the instrument if required as sliced samples cannot intermix with others presently
- Workaround for ‘drumkit’ instruments with akp akai programs
- Additional folders to sample search path for OSX
Additionally, since a pure bug fix is boring, I’ve added some new features:
- Support for ‘.s’ Akai S1000/S3000 samples
- Support for ‘.p’ Akai S1000 programs
- Support for ‘.sfz’ rgc:audio SFZ instruments
Should be available to down now from the same place
See above
Ahh, thanks 
Thought I was doing something wrong here
I looked at the code. I propose:
-- snip
elseif io.exists(instrument_path .. '../Sampler Files/' .. instrument_name .."/" .. sample_filename) == true then
return instrument_path .. '../Sampler Files/' .. instrument_name .."/"
else
return renoise.app():prompt_for_path("Location of samples for patch: " .. instrument_name)
end
Forward slashes work fine on Windows. Relative to the selection works fine in my tests.
Also, read esaruoho message carefully it’s not the same convention. I’m not sure why. I don’t have Logic.
On an aside I’ve managed to crash Renoise a few times, or get a lot of “invalid file!” so ideally you can skype and “remote desktop” on an OSX machine 
Not sure what is going on. I’ve made available the crash logs to the core devs.