I've tried a number of these Akai/WAV translation programs. One of the best I've found (and one of the cheapest) is CDxtract. With this you can read Akai, Emu, Kurzweil, Roland etc. etc. CDs from your PC's CD-ROM drive, audition the individual samples frrom each program and then save them as WAV, AIFF, MP3 or whatever. It also supports program key-mapped formats like soundfont and gigasampler, (though I doubt that these would be of much use for your application).

The current full version for PC or Mac costs $139 and can be downloaded from http://www.cdxtract.com


[This message has been edited by Chris A (edited 10-27-2002).]