SDII-to-WAV: any new/improved apps for this?

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by crizdee

Have you looked at Pro Audio Converter in the app store...
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pro-au...45279797?mt=12

I clicked on the link and had a good laugh when I saw this, I thought it was a joke:
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[Mike Thornton]

Check out this article on Pro Tools Expert Tutorial - How Do I Handle Old Pro Tools Sessions With Sound Designer 2 Files

Hope it helps,

Mike

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by ehaber

If your SDII files are not stored on a Mac formatted drive, it's much more difficult to convert them, as you'd have lost the resource fork with the bit depth/sample rate info.

True, but in case you tarred (zipped) them before moving to non-HFS drive the resource forks are still there. Storing the files on cdrom is also good IF you create a Mac/ISO9660 hybrid disk, where DOS style filenames are used on the ISO partition (ignoring resource forks) but the real deal stored on Mac partition.

Also, if the resource forks are still available but disconnected from the file, here's a way to recombine them:

cp -a /source/filename /destination/filename
dd if=/source/._filename of=/destination/filename/..namedfork/rsrc

Creating the resource fork from scratch is a bit more painful but can be done.

[massivekerry]

Originally Posted by Mike Thornton

Check out this article on Pro Tools Expert Tutorial - How Do I Handle Old Pro Tools Sessions With Sound Designer 2 Files

Hope it helps,

Mike

That’s cool. But if your SD2 files were all for SampleCell banks, it’s not as helpful.

[daeron80]

Originally Posted by massivekerry

That’s cool. But if your SD2 files were all for SampleCell banks, it’s not as helpful.

Don't say SampleCell. It makes me pine for the halcyon days of yore.

[Eric Lambert]

Sadly, I've had to move past the SampleCell instruments, though that is the reason for this thread: I have a million SC instruments whose samples are (were) SDII and nothing will load the instruments/banks. At least I can use their audio via ADSR.

[massivekerry]

Originally Posted by Eric Lambert

Sadly, I've had to move past the SampleCell instruments, though that is the reason for this thread: I have a million SC instruments whose samples are (were) SDII and nothing will load the instruments/banks. At least I can use their audio via ADSR.

Yeah, most of my Samplecell instruments were originally Synclavier sounds, so they're not usually mapped-out. But every so often I remember certain drum/cymbal/FX samples and I go searching for them. I have found that AudioFinder will let you preview SD2s, and can convert a whole folder, so it's a good thing I already had things semi-organized years ago.

[Rikk]

Still no nice solution for this? Looking at each of the suggested converter apps, I have found some negative reviews on it's SD2 conversion. Still looking.

[barden]

+1 for BarbaBatch by Audio Ease...

https://www.audioease.com/barbabatch/

...but I appreciate that it is pricey for what it is. I bought it a long time ago and, every once in a while, I go back to it and it's still rock-solid. (Yikes I don't want to think about how long ago I bought it!). Same with their Snapper...there are still a few things that it does that haven't been matched.

~Barden

[originalscottyg]

Originally Posted by Ben Jenssen

I clicked on the link and had a good laugh when I saw this, I thought it was a joke:
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Actually it's a handy little app. A friend of mine wrote it for internal use at our company when we used to work together. Then he put it on the App Store when he moved on. It's fairly barebones in terms of GUI, but it's fast, works well, and is pretty useful to have around.

P.S. Yes, the icon was sort of a joke, but it sort of stuck and I guess he kept it moving forward.