A complete pipeline from modern Mac to vintage Akai

Library

Index everything. Copy nothing.

Point S-Convert at your sample folders and it builds a local index — nothing is ever written into your folders, and unplugging a drive doesn't lose your tags. Search across samples, folders, tags, programs and disk images; filter by rating, category, BPM, key, color and favorites; audition with a click.

• Watched folders with automatic re-scanning
• Tags, ratings and favorites that survive offline drives
• One-click audition, Apple Loops style
• Drag folders straight into Akai groups — no duplication

Slice

Slice breaks where they want to be sliced

Manual, transient, region and BPM slicing modes with zero-crossing snap, per-slice audition, reverse and normalize — and every slice lands in your staging area ready to map.

Console FX

Every FX parameter on one screen, not one LCD page at a time

Console FX puts the sampler's effect settings on your Mac — 4-band EQ, distortion, modulation, delay/echo and reverb across a 50-slot preset list, every parameter visible and draggable at once instead of paged through the hardware's tiny display. Built-in DSP previews roughly what a setting will sound like as you dial it in, and the vintage preview keyboard models each Akai's filter and level behavior.

Hardware

Four ways onto the machine

• Gotek floppies — .img images (plus HFE for HxC firmware) for every model back to the S900.
• SCSI emulators — .hda drive images for ZuluSCSI and BlueSCSI, with multi-partition, multi-volume layouts. S-Convert can even flash ZuluSCSI firmware for you.
• PiSCSI / RaSCSI — the same .hda images work there too; load them your usual way. (Direct network push from the app is in beta.)
• ZBridge (beta) — our USB-C bridge loads samples and programs directly into sampler RAM, ReCycle-style, and gives you live MIDI control over SCSI. Proven on the S3200XL.

Live control: per-model MIDI SysEx profiles for filter, envelopes, LFO and zones on S900–S6000.