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However, these conversion processes tend to quite basic, and may not include the format you're interested in. Manufacturers have long recognised that musicians may want to import sounds from other libraries, and many samplers now provide facilities to read a few 'non‑native' CD‑ROM formats, and then convert the sounds. Even the way data is stored tends to be proprietary: Akai CD‑ROMs are totally different from Emu and Roland CD‑ROMs, for instance, and when you format a dedicated hard drive for use with your hardware sampler it may well do this in a proprietary format too. This doesn't present any problems if you buy one sampler and stay with it for life, but few of us do that: we buy one, build up a library of sounds, and then get tempted by a different product with bigger polyphony, built‑in effects, or computer‑based editing.

Sadly, however, there's still one large fly in the ointment - each and every product has its own data format for loading and saving samples, programs, and multis.

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Given the number of excellent hardware and software samplers that are now available, you might be forgiven for thinking that the modern samplist would have an easy life. Ever found yourself really needing a particular sample CD‑ROM, only to find that it's not available for your sampler? Or perhaps you want to back up your sample programs in proprietary CD formats? Chicken Systems' PC utility Translator may be able to help.

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