Loading ISO Format Sample CDs via SCSI2SD

This is how I write up to 7 ISO formatted sample CDs to a single SD card for use with SCSI2SD. In this example I show the process with an Akai S3000XL but I believe this method should work for E-mu, Roland, and other samplers (provided you use a sample CD which matches the proprietary sampler format, ie an E-mu sampler reading an E-mu format ISO).

[@floppy12k]

Thanks for this. Greatly appreciated

[@supersibbers]

just a legendary video, you are a champion

[@federmartintv]

Hi. What program are you using for making the partitions in the sd card? Thanks!

[@bukaglasna]

Great! Is that a usb 2.0 cable? You r getting 5 times faster transfer speeds in Win32 Imager then i get on my PC... And why didnt you write to the SD card directly when put into the Computer but did it via usb which is much slower? Thanx

[@APMTenants]

Don’t you have to reserve one SCSI ID number for the sampler itself? Otherwise you would create a SCSI ID conflict. When I tried transferring my CD-ROMs onto compact flash cards, I found that the file names of the sample CDs do not follow the same 8.3 rule (FILENAME.SND) that Akai samplers use for storage drives. The CDs can have file names longer than 8 characters. So when you try to modify and save a patch, the sampler can no longer find the associated .SND or .WAV files because the names are truncated down to 8 characters. Can you save your patches into the CD-ROM partition to get around that, or is it read only? There used to be something called a SCSI bridge that would allow you to use IDE card readers. No need for ISOs, and no limit of card size. But they have been out of production for 18 years or so. Currently sells for $400 used. I have one in my MPC from back in the day tho. Thinking of moving it into my s5000 since I can still use a card reader in the XL, albeit with a 1gb limit. 1gb goes a long way on the XL. Fully expanded memory is only 32mb

[@amonster8mymother]

I would like to partition my drives to match the 32mb sampler memory so I can load entire volume. How would you do that?

[@ChristianWalloth]

by using the S3000Xl itself. First, format the disk (or disk image, no larger than 510 MB allowed), then partition it using the Akai's menu option; you can set the size of the partitions and the max. number of partitions.

[@amonster8mymother]

@@ChristianWalloth go into format. Partition to 31mb. I would not partition to 32mb because it can go over. So partition to slightly less than 32mb so you get...oh wait that to partition a 100mb zipdrive into 3 volumes. But yea...

[@amonster8mymother]

Ok so you did forgo the floppy emulator?

[@amonster8mymother]

Where did you buy the scsitosd drive? ❤

[@ChristianWalloth]

search for zuluscsi

[@mypanasonic6862]

You’re making life harder for yourself!! 😅 Copy Akai ISO to sdcard change name of ISO to cd0 Put sdcard in Akai job done! You can have cd0,cd1,cd2,cd3,cd4,cd5,cd7 Skip #6 as that’s the device scsi id. 7 in total

[@deepah92]

Confirmed, using Zulu SCSI there’s no need for all those steps to be completed as in this video if all we want is to have 7 CD-ROM images available on the SD card just copy and rename each and every ISO as suggested here and we’re done ✅✅✅