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@MrSoundman

Extreme Sample Converter is working fine here on Windows 10 Pro x64 20H2.

Good to know. I guess that I’ll have to install the version I have (3.5.something) and try to download/install the most recent version on it.

@MrSoundman

I don’t think it’s worth trying to convert the X2/3 libraries (and possibly not legal), but in my case it was about my own samples and transferring them across to Kontakt, and then to HALion. In some cases I no longer had the hardware I used to create the sample patches, in other cases it was about saving work, and ESC did that quite well.

Same boat : the purpose would be to convert my own banks to use them on a more recent sampling system. Actually, I think that I never used the bundled E-Mu X libraries : unable to really say why, beside the drastic protection system that was existing back in the X2 days. I guess that, more or less consciously, it was making me unsure of an eventual ability to use them in another context.

@MrSoundman

As an aside, the “VSTi Converter” feature in ESC can also be done with HALion 6, i.e. automate the sampling of other instruments, which in Emulator X2/3 was called “SynthSwipe” – just that E-MU were doing it in 2007!

Good to know also, about Halion. And yep, I have looked at the X3 synthswipe feature a while ago and it indeed did the trick, somehow, after few tests. The problem is that no one can look the sampling task for a Rhodes like sound in the same way as for a Mellotron one (key range, velocity, layers needed, etc.). So, I’m still wondering how to do all this in an efficient way (both time and files size related)…

[vncvr]

I mean, EMU seems like a good fit for Yamaha, it sort of makes sense. Why the F does Creative Labs need it? What is Creative Labs even doing with it? I don’t get it.

[MrSoundman]

@vncvr

What is Creative Labs even doing with it?

Nothing, other than (ab)using the brand name. E-MU, as we knew it, has been dead a long time.