Welcome to Translator!
Translator is the realization of a dream - to have a universal translator for all the crazy professional sampler sound formats that are offered. Akai, Roland, Ensoniq, GigaStudio, Kontakt, etc.
There are a couple of reasons for the myriad of sampler formats:
- Competition: Part of the appeal of a particular piece of musical equipment is the sounds that it produces. Just by nature, one of the side effects of a proprietary format is that only your piece of equipment can play all the cool sounds that are available.
- Hardware Specific: Each piece of musical equipment, from the design stage on up, requires different things to be accessed and stored, often in different structures and orders. This was even more critical in the early days (the 1980's), where memory was at a minimum and tolerances were thinner. Thus, each piece of equipment had to be designed with their own file format - not only that, but with there own organization of structure on a disk. Many pieces of equipment were designed in a time when PC's and Windows were not a dominant thing
- Lot's of Brilliant People: There are quite a few geniuses in the world that (strangely enough) are musicians - thus they want to design musical gear. Just like the creative types that they are - they've gotta do it their way.
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| Translator can take most major professional disk and file formats and translate between them. That means reading, interpreting, and writing between different systems; whether that means reading a DOS file like a .WAV file, or writing a complex Ensoniq file to a proprietary disk format on a SCSI hard drive.
If you are a registered owner, you are qualified for free updates for the life of the program. You can download these from the Chicken Systems web site at your leisure. There are many features we intend to add to this program to make it more versatile for you to use. |