Chicken Systems Translator 6 21l
Laylow Skidmore
Its iLok software (blech) and the free/demo version doesnt allow conversions (yeah, "demo my software, but you cant demo what youre gonna use it for"). Reviews on various other sites are a mixed bag and nothing very recent.
The older version of Translator that I used was fine with sf2 and sfz as well as Akai pgm and akp files, but won't work with the newer xpm format. Also fine with the Emulator and Gigasampler files. I also recall that pre-Kontakt 4 libraries are fine (?), but my memory is foggy, so don't quote me on that.
But in the long run, parameters were off or completely missing, so cleaning up took almost as long as manually mapping the samples and setting parameters, for me at least. Well, unless it was a big multi-layered patch.
Yeah, pre-Kontakt 4.2 libs. You can check the version of the lib somewhere inside the pkg or exe file. Or maybe if the files have an underscore (_) before them - I think - memory is foggy. I vaguely remember testing this years ago.
Before Kontakt file version v4.2, Kontakt files (nki's) could be fully read by typical advanced programming techniques. When v4.2 came out, NI changed the format and also added a layer of 128-bit encryption to the file, rendering it impossible to read unless it was "hacked". At that time, NI provided us with a code library that allowed access to about 80% of the file contents - it was missing the modulator, filter, and effects information, plus a couple other things. This was valid up to v5.8. As of v6.0, NI did not update this code library to include v6.0+ files.
@chicken systems translater website says:
However, this should not be a concern for anyone interested in Translator. Sometimes, we get complaints - valid ones - where people want to know "how do I test the conversions?"
Our answer is - you don't need to test them. The only reason you'd want to do that is make sure the quality is what we say it is. We can understand that, but since we can't provide that, you'll just have to take our word for it. We understand that isn't what you'd usually do, but cosider this:
Be warned: It's frustrating to work with. Impressively so. You might think they'd have ironed out the kinks (it's been around since '98) but it has the feel of a bug-riddled pre-release imho. A half-built house with corridors that lead nowhere, advertised features not implemented etc. I knew it had problems going in, but I was still surprised at how unfinished it feels. I don't recommend the product, and I can't recommend the company (you can search them out on KVR).
That said, I do use Translator for various tasks from time to time, and it's saved me a huge amount of grunt work, converting patches between exs24, nnxt, sf2, sfz, and stripping/mapping samples, preserving loop points etc. I've not had much luck with Bitwig and TAL-Sampler conversions and I don't have Kontakt, which seems to be your focus. It won't help you with encrypted files. I doubt you can translate Komplete, for instance.
Ultimately, I don't regret getting it (half price) but it's been a pain in the ass and I don't like it. As @ocelot says, there's always a lot of time-consuming clean-up involved and in my experience, a lot of trial and error and strange behaviours trying to get it to work in the first place, which it might not. You can certainly wave goodbye to nuance and multi-layered patches (and anything copy-protected). After wading through the shit, you might reach a point where you have banks of patches to tweak and finish, rather than starting over, and that might save many hours/days of your life, so it can be worth it for some people.
yeah. im being lazy. rather spend 150$..... if i know it works 80%, i'd rather spend that than spend time in text editors, manually doing it, or auto sampling. just line up 200 libraries and walk away.
@auxmux said:
I've had ok luck with Extreme Sample Converter. Try the demo: it worked for NKI files that are pre 4.2. I used for same propose, to convert collections of other sampler files to SFZ for AudioLayer.
I recently saw that someone on the DecentSampler forum created an app to convert Exs24 to DSampler files using the Unity3D game engine IDE (!), and while such ingenuity is awesome, surely there are more open and maintainable ways to automate such translation work?
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I would like to convert my collection of 275 Akai .ISO files to Native Instruments Kontakt using Chicken Systems Translator on Windows 10, but windows claims the ISO files are corrupted - because Akai formatted CDs are not Windows / ISO 9660 volumes. On my Mac I can simply choose IGNORE and translator can see them.
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Currently we are getting quite a lot of bugs about missing translationsin YaST. It turned out that some bugs were caused by a missingtextdomain statement in the YaST code. In such situations, notranslatable texts are extracted from those files and, obviously,translators cannot translate them.
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