Instructions On How To Access The Roland Sound Bank Files Using A Macintosh Computer. About the Library Roland Corporation U.S. has made the original Sound Bank (S-50, S-550, S-330 and W-30 samplers) and the S-770 floppy disk library available for downloading from this on-line service. These disks were available from Roland dealers when these digital samplers were current products in our line. However over the years dealers became unable to stock the library to be available for customers to come in and copy the disks they wanted. In order to continue servicing our customers we are making these disks available to various on-line services for downloading. All of the files which are available here are created using the SDISK program, which is a IBM DOS program. The SDISK image files are then compressed with PKZIP, which is a common file compression utility for DOS. To utilize these files with the Macintosh you will need to decompress the files with a program such as Zipit, a Macintosh shareware utility that is available with this library. To read the SDISK file, you will need the Macintosh program, SMAC which is also included with this library. The file name is SMAC.SEA. To recreate a Roland sampler disk with this program you will need to have a Super Drive in your Macintosh. The library is divided into two sections. The first section is RSB501-508, the original S-50 library. These disks when uncompressed and converted into sampler disks can be used with the S-50, S-550, S-330 and W-30 samplers. If you are using a S-550, S-330 or W-30 sampler you can not directly load the patches. You will need to use the Convert Load function on these samplers first to read the original S-50 disk. Some of the S-50 disks for this library were convert loaded on a S-550 or were recovered from the S-550 library because the original S-50 disks were missing from the archive. If you have a S-50 and cannot read the disk, this is because this is a converted disk. There is a utility disk that accompanies this library that can convert S-550 disks into the S-50, it is the S-50 SYS-505 disk. The compressed file name is SYS- 505.ZIP. Sorry for the inconvenience of having to convert some of these disks, but we wanted to be able to include the entire library. The original S-50 disks are not able to be directly convert loaded into the S-770, S-750, DJ-70 or the S-760 because the different data format of the S-50 disks. You will need to convert load these disks on a S-550, S-330 or W-30 and save the sounds in their native format in order to convert load over the original S-50 disk to a 700 Series sampler. The Second section is the RSB-5501-5506, which was the S-550 and W-30 library. These files are similar to the RSB library are created with SDISK and compressed with PkZip. To use these files with a S-50 you will need the SYS-505 disk to convert them for use with the S-50. These files can also be convert loaded into the S-770, S-750, S-760 and DJ-70. To get an idea of how many sounds are in the Sound Bank see the Sound Bank Library text file, which has the complete listing of sounds in the Sound Bank. How to create a Roland disk from the file you downloaded. 1) Uncompress the SMAC.SEA file by double clicking on it with your mouse. 2) Uncompress the Sound Bank ZIP file that you downloaded using the program ZipIt or a similar program that can uncompress IBM ZIP files. 3) Open the SMAC folder and double click with your mouse on the SAM_2_Roland application. There is a Black and white and color version of this application. Use the appropriate version with your computer. 4) Click on the æOpen button on the program. This will take you to the file select menu. 5) Find the SDISK file that you want to use and double click on the file name. (example:501_1.Out). You will come back to the SAM_2_ Roland program and the file name will be displayed. 6) Put a Roland sampler formatted disk in your computers Super drive. 7) Click on Write to Roland. 8) The SDISK file will now create a Roland sampler disk at this time. 9) Eject the disk and load it into your sampler. The disk should read the same way a normal sound disk would. SMAC is a program that was created by Terje Finstad who is a member of the Sgroup, a group of Roland Sampler enthusiasts on the Internet. If you are unclear about the operations of this program read the document SMAC doc.draft2a that comes with this program. If you have questions about the Sound Bank library or basic questions about creating sampler disks using this program call Roland Product Support (213) 685-5141, extension 770.