Software Sampler That Imports Everything? Options

[timcasey]

Hi everyone - first post here!

I recently bought Kontakt 2, which was supposed to be able to work with every known sample format. My EMU crapped out and it's too costly to replace.

I was going to get MOTU's MachFive until I found out it uses a hardware dongle. I've had those fail before at the most inopportune time.

The impression I'm getting from the Kontakt forum (you have to buy the damn thing before you can view the forum) is that it CAN'T successfully import AKAI samples (wtf - too esoteric?); neither can it import anything from a mixed-mode CD-ROM (in other words, a CD that contains, say, AKAI files and WAV files). Unfortunately most CD-ROMs nowadays are mixed mode. What a piece of crap.

So now I'm looking at my 100+ sample CD-ROMs and wondering if there's ANY way that I'll ever be able to use them again? I was going to try to pick up a used AKAI sampler, but they're so damn big and bulky. Carrying less stuff to gigs was the reason software synths were looking so good to me.

Any suggestions as to other software samplers?

[timcasey]

CDXtract worked wonderfully! Thank you!

If anyone else wants to try it, the download through MacMusic doesn't work - the file gets unstuffed with an error and is consequently empty. But if you go to the manufacturer's site, the download is different and works fine.

However, the registration process is set up so that CDXtract will only work on the computer you downloaded to - up in my studio, it opens and closes immediately. During the download process, it takes note of your IP address and assigns your serial number to that IP address only. This may be a problem for some people like myself who keep their studio on a seperate computer from their web/e-mail computer. In the case of this software, though, you only use it to translate the files, which you can then transfer to your studio via CD-ROM or external hard drive. But when this old computer that I'm typing this on dies, I'm going to be quite stuck.