The New FeaturesĬDXtract 4.0 supports more sample formats than v3.6 (see box), and can convert from as well as to EXS24 and Giga formats, so you can use their libraries in HALion, for example. The Mac Translator, by contrast, lacks the full PC feature set. The PC version runs on Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP, while the identical Mac version runs on OS 8.6 and later (forthcoming OS X support will be in a free upgrade). Bernard has responded with version 4.0 of CDXtract, which for the first time is dual-platform. Chicken Systems' rival Translator (reviewed in SOS January 2002), however, could read more formats, sometimes provided more thorough conversions, and could write image files in various formats for burning onto CD-R. Last year's version 3.6 could read Emu, Kurzweil, Akai and Roland formats and save in EXS24 format.
CDXtract 4 is a handy cross-platform utility for extracting and converting sample data.īernard Chavonnet's CDXtract is a well-known shareware sample conversion utility.
