Akai S5000-Z Series to Akai/Pulsar/MESA Translation

Quote from the Akai S-5000 manual: "It is not possible to load S-5-6000 sounds into any of Akai's previous generation of samplers. The huge differences in hardware, software, and also file and disk formats make this impossible."

Impossible? Impossible??? But... we just did it. In fact, sometimes it can be said that the S-3000 is more powerful, as the S-5000 didn't carry over all the previous functions.

But there are tradeoffs. The extra Filter Modes are not translatable, as well as sounds higher than 32mb, and certain other issues. But they remain relatively minor.

Each Akai S-5000 .akp file contains one Program, this is translated into one (or possibly several) Akai S-1000/3000/MESA/Pulsar files.