Korg Soundlink DRS OASYS PCI, Руководство пользователя

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Using the OASYS PCI Working With Files
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PCI users can add the sounds simply by dragging the main folder (e.g. “John Smith
Analog Collection”) into the OASYS PCI folder.
Cross-platform considerations
All OASYS PCI fi les can be used on both MacOS and Windows computers, as long
as you are careful to observe the following:
Naming conventions. Make sure that your fi le names don’t exceed 27 characters,
do include three-character extensions, and don’t include forbidden characters. For
more information, see “File Names,” below.
File type and creator. If OASYS PCI fi les created using Windows are transferred to
a MacOS computer, you won’t immediately be able to use them with OASYS PCI.
This is because the MacOS marks
fi les with a “type” and “creator,” which
determines which programs can open the fi le. Files created on Windows do not
have this information, so the MacOS doesn’t know what programs can use the fi les.
To fi x this, just drag the fi les or (folders of fi les) onto the OASYS Windows-MacOS
Autotyper program. This program will automatically set the type and creator for
Programs, Multis, and Multisamples, based on the three-character
fi le extension
(.oap, .oam, and .kem or .k2m, respectively).
File type and creator are transparent to Windows, which uses three-letter name
extensions instead. If you are distributing sounds created on Windows, you might
consider using a MacOS computer to run the
fi les through the autotyper program;
this will ensure that the fi les can be opened by both MacOS and Windows users,
without any additional work on their part.
Sound Designer II format is MacOS only. The Sound Designer II sample format
includes a MacOS-speci fi c fi le characteristic called a “resource fork,” which makes
the fi les incompatible with Windows. If you have samples in this format which
you’d like to distribute within OASYS PCI Multisamples, convert them to AIFF or
WAV format
fi rst.
File Names
To ensure compatibility with OASYS PCI users on all computing platforms, you
need to observe a few
fi le name conventions.
Restricted characters
Be careful not to use the following characters in any fi le names:
\/:*?"<>.
These characters will work
fi ne on MacOS computers, but will not work on
Windows systems.