Got my CD-ROM drive tonight and I would want to share some impressions on akai loading...

I think it takes some skafuddles befor you can really load things well but I actually think I know how the behaviour on AKAI sampling (keymaps,) are on the XV-5080, at first sight that is...

Ofcourse I've only tried one CD that doesn't really have a whole keyboard range of samples for one patch, but only an octave (8 notes). These samples involves orchestral hits etc..

Now you can go into disk mode and select the CDROM drive, then choose from a whole bunch of AKAI partitions.. WHen you select these you'll get some stereo waveforms extended with *.as (AKAI sample). These are actually Previewable.. In each partition you will be able to select certain files with the extention *.AP. This extention stands for Akai PATCH.. So if you select (mark) these for loading into RAM, it will actually download the whole bank of sounds (with the AS extention). You can even select multiple AP files because in some partitions there may be more "instruments" sharing the same folder. If you actually load these AP's you'll be presented with an option to overwrite several of your xv-5080 internal USER patches. For example.. If you would load 5 Akai Patches (*.AP). You are prompted to overwrite user patch 1 to 5. So I went ahead and did it.

What I found strange at first is that there were only a few keys (8) in the middle of the keyboard that actually had samples in them. if I would select the next overwritten patch, there would be another sound, as wanted.. but these would use the FOLLOWING 8 keys. Now one could speculate that akai patches are treated like individual multisample instances by the XV-5080, so I would speculate that if you throw all these patches besides eachother in a performance, that you would have the whole keyrange of notes filled with a classic hit on the first 8 notes, swells on the following 8 notes and so on..

It might be just the way this particular CDROM is put together, but I'd like everyone's input on these first findings of mine.

Has anyone experimented with AKAI loading already?.

Also, you have no effects when loading an akai patch, you need to add it yourself.. that's no big deal, but I just hope it just doesn't mess up the keymaps entirely... that would be a shame

Maybe I'm just doing things in a wrong way, well.. I invite you to discuss this, !

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What kind of CD-ROM did you buy? I've heard that not every CDROM-players will work...

I bought the plextor ultraplex 40max.. it's very good !..Ofcourse you need to watch out for a special cable going from it's small 50pints connector to 25 pins..

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Thanks...