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Of course, the S5/6000 can also read .WAV files. However, some considerations need to be borne
in mind.
Many .WAVs are only intended to be played at nominal pitch (i.e. the pitch they were recorded at).
Very often, they were never intended to be transposed up and down and, if they were, they either
have a limited transposition range and/or use a crude form of interpolation to do the transposition.
As a result of this, these samples are sometimes looped and then trimmed so that the end point of
the sample is exactly the same as the end point of the loop. For the application they were intended,
this will work fine.
However, the S6000 uses an extremely complex interpolation method to allow high quality
transposition over an extremely wide range. To ensure loops are played correctly without glitches
over that range, 15 samples are required after the loop end. For example:
Sample
Start
Loop
Start
Loop
End
Sample
End
15 samples
The S6000 takes care of this automatically and leaves 15 samples between the two end points but
WAVs that have been edited on another system so that the sample end and the loop end are the
same (or where the sample end is less than 15 samples away from the loop end) may exhibit
random clicks in the loop when transposed. In this case, your only course of action is to adjust the
loop on the S6000 (maybe AUTOFIND will fix the problem) and save the result.
NOTE: The S6000 cannot read .AIFF files or other soundfiles that may exists but there are
many conversion utilities that allow you to convert these to .WAV files.
NOTE: It is not possible to load S5/6000 sounds into any of Akai’s previous generation of
samplers. The huge differences in hardware, software and also file and disk format make this
impossible.