Until we can fix the aiff/wav issue with EXS patches I have temporarily disabled that part of the code in this tool.
Using a hacky work-around I have added some support code to extract the base note and loop points from wav samples imported through the API (see here for details).
Thus, the tool can now read Akai AKP program patches (Akai S5000 / S6000 / z4 / z8 / MPC5000v2 and MPC4000). It will load the samples and set the base-notes, loop points and sample mapping across the keyboard.
On the Akai samplers, the keyboard is split into zones and each zone can have up to four samples playing at the same time. This is not possible in Renoise and so the tool will only load the 1st sample in each zone. No modulation settings are also imported as this is not possible through the API.
I have tested it with 90% of the patches available from here with no issues.
Sorry to keep jumping around between formats but each file format is bringing up new and different issues.
At least if we have one stable import format users can use a conversion utility (e.g. ChickenSys Translator) to use other formats.
Hope someone finds this useful.
All the best,
Martin