Best way to convert Sound Designer II files to wav?

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by Stephen Bond

This whole situation is farcical! Digidesign advised us to record our sessions with SD2 files rather than choosing the WAV option and then they drop support after all these years Now we are left scrambling looking for workarounds and solutions

Avid should at least support the importing of old SD2 Sessions and upgrading to the new standard natively, even if they don't want to continue with the option of saving as SD2.

Stephen

Obviously!
+1

[johnnyv]

Hey all,

first off, thanks to everyone for the suggestions!

I'm on a Mac.

A friend of mine recorded a live show about ten years ago...most likely in PT7 or something. The audio files folder has the audio. Because it's a live show, I presume that all files start and end at the same times. So, it's just a matter of converting the SDII format files to AIFF or WAV...

[Stig Eliassen]

Logic Pro X supports SD2.

[Stephen Bond]

Originally Posted by Stig Eliassen

Logic Pro X supports SD2.

You couldn't make this stuff up!

Stephen

[noteon studio]

Also you can just add .wav to end of your file.
-janne

[Bob Olhsson]

There used to be free conversion utilities back on the real mac system.

[Stephen Bond]

Originally Posted by noteon studio

Also you can just add .wav to end of your file.
-janne

I promptly added the extension to some of the audio files from a 2005 Pro Tools Session but alas, it didn't work

That said, I could open the files in QuickTime. After it did its conversion I could actually hear them

Anyhow, let's hope Avid see the light and add compatibility with there own Sessions, especially considering Logic X does

Stephen

[Hanswurstlsepp]

I'm using Logic Pro 9 or X for that.

Works perfect.

[midnightrambler]

So, there's no more support for SDII files, but at least they're still providing the "AVID Time-Shift" plug-in as the default TC/E setting, possibly just about the very worst sounding time stretching plug-in of the last 15 years*. Yayyyy.(/sarcasm)

*Oh, I forgot about the original Avid TC/E plug-in, which is even worse. And still supported too.

[Park Seward]

Originally Posted by midnightrambler

As an aside, this has got to be one of the worst things about making music in the 21st century. I know 'twas ever thus (the number of actually useable 2" tape machines are presumably decreasing by the year, for instance), but who really knows whether we'll be able to read any of our current state-of-the-art files in 20 years' time, when e.g. WAVS have been rendered obsolete by some other slightly different but superficially better format.

True, but some companies are making new cards for old machines. I just bought a new servo card for my MM-1100 2". http://www.rtzaudio.com/pages/MM1200.html
But the tape lasts a long time. I am transferring tape from the early 70s and it plays fine (some require baking).

Let's hope file formats come with conversion software.