Currently, the MSRP of MV Kit Creator™ is $79.95. It is dual-platform - both Mac and Windows version are included.

You can purchase at our retail arm SamplerZone.com, or at many music stores. Sometimes SamplerZone.com has sales periodically.

Yes, we call it MV Kit Creator™ Free. It primarily exists to show you the program and shows you how easy it is to use, and what it feels like. You can use it to move files around and to format proprietary disks.

Go the the Download MV Kit Creator™ Free page to download it.

MV Kit Creator™ is a physical product and MUST be shipped to you.

However, so you can use the program immediately, we offer a temporary build that you can download after you order from SamplerZone.com, to use for the time being. That temporary build expires by the time the CD arrives.

Updates are available for immediate download from our Web Site, using our easy-to-use updating method from the program itself.

(Please notify us if any of these links are dead.)

• SamplerZone.com

More distributors, such as Guitar Center, AudioMIDI.com, Sweetwater, BestService GmbH, and Time+Space are being lined up as of this writing.

Obviously all/most translations will be to a certain extent "lossy." The point is to get as close as possible to achieve coherency, just like language translation does. All samplers share basically the same attributes, with supersets of the basic OSC-FILTER-AMP-ENVELOPE-LFO scheme. Translator is extensively documented on the abilities and limitations of it's translations.

MV Kit Creator™ can potentially build better and faster, with it's automated tools.

For example, the Ensoniq ASR-X imports Ensoniq EPS/ASR sounds, but there are certain critical translation problems, the effects DSP information is not translated, and it has to be done one-by-one.

In addition, the ASR-X can translate Akai and Roland formats, but only the wavedata and the keymap arrangement on the keyboard.

This is also the case with many other manufacturers translations - they want to expand the reach of their product, but have not had the resources to truly get the job done right. Translator improves on this situation for your benefit.

Call or e-mail us and give us SPECIFIC information on the problem - best of all, send us the actual source file in question - you may do this without prior permission.

• Report the incident at our Bug Report Page - this is all you need to do.
• OR, you can e-mail us it regardless of size (beware: your outgoing server probably restricts e-mails sizes).
• OR, FTP it to our site (do not include spaces in the file name you are sending).
• For more info on sending files, see the Sending Files area of the documentation.

Chicken Systems uses a information-intensive bug-solving apparatus that allow us to diagnosis any problem. We listen and may upload or e-mail you an update within 24-48 hours.

If you are installing any Chicken Systems product from CD on Sieerra/El Capitan/Yosemite, you may get an error in the installer, saying Installations cannot proceed; not all requirements were met. Here's the fix, it's an Apple/Javascript bug related to the installer (which is Apple-provided).

• Copy the installer off the CD and on your Desktop (or wherever).
• Ctl/Right-click and select "Open Package Contents"
• A finder window opens with the "Contents" folder showing, enter into it
• Duplicate the "distribution.dist" file for backup
• Open "distribution.dist" with TextEdit
• Edit the "10.4.0" string to have it say "10.04.0"
• Save the document.
• Run the installer from that location; it should work.

The problem is that the installers on the CD"s have a filter (that we elected to put into it) so any installation attempt on any OSX before 10.4 Tiger will fail. The problem is that the script compares the string "10.10" >= "10.4.0" and for some reason it thinks it is less than "10.4.0". (We don"t know why they are doing string comparisons for equality in the first place.)

We"ve reported the bug to Apple and we"ll see how fast they fix it. In the meantime, this workaround works fine.

We"ve removed the OS check on all updaters to avoid the problem, as we aren"t really expecting anyone to try installing any of our products on OS's 10.3 or below anymore. But the installers off the CD are beyond our control, so until Apple fixes this, the above workaround is necessary.

If you want to look at the bug, it is 18795656 "Installer created with Packagemaker with OS check fails in Yosemite" under RADAR.