SoundFont to Akai/Pulsar/MESA Translation

SoundFonts are commonly translated into Akai Volumes. If a SoundFont is dropped on an Akai Volume, all the Presets or Instruments are written into that particular Volume.

Akai Volumes have a limit on how many objects they can hold - 510 for the S3000 and 125 for the S1000 format. If a particular SoundFont will require more objects than the destination Volume can handle, Translator calculates the most efficient splitting up of the SoundFont (least amount of duplicated samples) and writes multiple Akai Volumes that can handle it.

Some SoundFonts Presets or Instruments are larger data-wise than the largest possible Akai partition (60mb), and likewise some SoundFont Presets/Instruments are larger than the largest possible Akai Program (32mb). If a situation like this occurs, Translator needs to cut down the Preset/Instruments size by cutting off the ends of the samples proportionally. You can set t behavior of this in Options-Data Processing.

what the In these instances, Translator will prompt you if you want to cut sample data from ends of samples (and turn off the loops if they are affected in those samples) in such a way to make the Preset/instrument fit.

The Akai only plays back samples at 44.1kHz or 22.05kHz, so any sample rates other than these are adjusted to the nearest available sample rate and the root key and fine tunings are adjusted accordingly.

Translator has been extensively designed to translate SoundFonts not only to Akai itself, but also to appropriately load into "Akai-compatible" samplers as well. Please see the Miscellaneous topic Akai-compatible Compliance Support for more information.