ddrum3 IS able to play .wav

[mesursur]

Yesterday I uploaded exedently some ddrum4 WAV sample files to my ddrum3. I thought: "damn, I didn't convert them to .raw so I have to do it all over again , but, they played!!! ;D Just like the raw files. (upladed with sound forge midi dump).

[lite]

Hi mesursur,

I think you've transferred the samples with "MIDI sample dump standard". That's a specific format for samples supported by many samplers and the ddrum3 as well of course (the ddrum4 does it too). So there are no computer file type or compression codecs attributes left in the transfer. No matter what the source file type was before you've opened it in Sound Forge. Sound Forge dumps the sound data in "MIDI sample dump standard". Meaning the ddrum3 didn't get a wav file. But you're right, any sound file / type which can be loaded into sound forge can be dumped into the ddrum3

But you didn't dump via SCSI, did you? That would be really interesting. Although sound forge supports sample dump via SCSI it never worked with the ddrum3 for me (MIDI only with sound forge and ddrum3). Only with the clavia tool on Mac OS

[mesursur]

:)haha, yes, of course, the sds format. How could I forget. For a moment ........

I have never tried to tranfers by scsi. When I bought my first dd3, I wanted to buy a mac, but no mac for sale in the local newspaper. I downloaded balistik ( or something, a mac emulator for the old macs) but then I had to buy a scsi card. But there was no money left (student). A week later I red about sound forge and the whole scsi thing was history for me.

[Deleted]

If you want samples that loop, you must use wav. Raw doesn't support loop points. At least that's how I got it to work. My crash-samples loop at the end

[lite]

That's a great hint - looping cymbal decays :-) I should consider moving some cymbal pads from ddrum4 to ddrum3 and try it
BTW sound forge is great for creating loops.