Mac OS 9 Lives
Digital Audio Workstation & MIDI => Digital Audio Workstations & MIDI Applications => Pro Tools by Digidesign => Topic started by: AtariMan on August 18, 2016, 11:52:41 PM
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Hello, you need a program Bitheadz Osmosis? Who can share?
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terrible program ;)
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http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/bitheadz-osmosis/
never heard of this before?
from 1999?
Osmosis reads Akai S-1000 and S-3000 formatted CD’s and converts them to Unity DS-1, Sample Cell II, AIFF, WAV, SDII formats. Retail price $179. They have a downloadable demo if you want to try it out.
how is this pro tools related?
shouldnt this be under sampler section? :)
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With Pro Tools is not related, but due to the Sample Cell. I have a disc with the banks and with the help of Akai Bitheadz Osmosis, I would like to convert Akai banks under SC 2 Plus. I love SC 2 Plus. Maybe there is another currency for this purpose? I would be most grateful.
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With Pro Tools is not related, but due to the Sample Cell. I have a disc with the banks and with the help of Akai Bitheadz Osmosis, I would like to convert Akai banks under SC 2 Plus. I love SC 2 Plus. Maybe there is another currency for this purpose? I would be most grateful.
is this the only program capable of converting AKAI to SC2Plus format????????
http://web.archive.org/web/20031213175433/http://www.bitheadz.com/osmosis/osmosistext.html
looks like it also reads Roland sample disks
Osmosis Information
Osmosis is an easy to use conversion utility in which you can convert your favorite Roland or Akai samples into Unity or Sample Cell format.
The single window in Osmosis displays your partitions, banks, programs and samples which you can save as a text file. All you need to do to convert the samples is drag the data to the hard drive.
To make it even easier, we have made it possible for you to demo all samples before you convert them. Just double click the sample and hear it in one-shot or in the looped state.
Osmosis opens your computer to the world of Akai and Roland sample disks, and makes the perfect companion to Unity or Sample Cell.
* Audition before importing
* Reads Akai S1000 and S3000
* Reads Roland 760 and 770 discs
* Supports fragmented Akai discs
* "Convert whole disc" feature
* Supports Unity v3.x
Full Product Info PDF
Download Demo: OS 9 OS X PC
System Requirements
* Minimum 64MB
* 200 MHz or higher
* Compatible CD-ROM drive
* 800x600 resolution monitor with 256+ colors
* G3 333 MHz or faster processor, Pentium 4
* OS 8.6 through 9.2, OS X, Win XP
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its not available afaik. someone should do a bitheadz pack.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/uyh8qdislxn5w12/Osmosis_2.zip/file
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whoa
let me try this again, since it worked: someone should do a pack of every bitheadz product in every version....
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whoa
let me try this again, since it worked: someone should do a pack of every bitheadz product in every version....
eheh not so easy, maybe you have some chances writing here what you need....
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in all my years i have never met anyone who was using this stuff. eventually it is just underrated. :)
when i remember right osmosis keeps chrashing on OS9.x
phrazer would have had the potential to become the new multitrack recycle, but somehow it looks ugly and the file formats are not interchangeable with other apps; there is not a single program which could read unity or acid on mac.
voodoo, well. boing bumm tschak?
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in all my years i have never met anyone who was using this stuff. eventually it is just underrated. :)
when i remember right osmosis keeps chrashing on OS9.x
phrazer would have had the potential to become the new multitrack recycle, but somehow it looks ugly and the file formats are not interchangeable with other apps; there is not a single program which could read unity or acid on mac.
voodoo, well. boing bumm tschak?
Some bitheadz softwares were good. The main problem I remember was....the graphic interfaces. Voodoo was a real pain in the a$$ to use...
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Retro AS-1
1.11+ Support for Digidesign Direct IO version 2.11, allows output directly to Digidesign digital audio hardware
https://web.archive.org/web/19981207064827/http://www.bitheadz.com/Updates.html :-X
Unity DS-1
Imports and maps DLS, SoundFont 2.0, AKAI S1000, and SampleCell™ II instruments automatically
https://web.archive.org/web/19990128150335/http://www.bitheadz.com/Unity_DS-1.html
here is digidesigns hope that a software will take over their a bandoned samplecell line
thats why those are historically important
https://web.archive.org/web/19990424134042/http://www.bitheadz.com/Productz.html
voodoo, osmosis, black n white still being announced
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Today I'm so gooooood ;-)
Unity https://www.mediafire.com/folder/0sc4icmlxsunl/UNITY
Retro https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vdburh3jiji7v/RETRO
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the usual fate of "early birds", they were avantgardists but then failed to jump on the plug-in train.
unless you actually use retro, you can replace osmosis with CDXtract for reading roland CDs.
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retrooooooo
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in retrospective the name makes sense now.
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it is usually about 15 minutes work for me to upload older stuff... sorry for the delay atariman. :)
install 1.1
apply patch (if you want to use this version)
run and close
install 1.1.2
run demo or authorize
note: the .img is a shrinkwrap.
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Thank you very much friend!!!
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Voodoo, for those who are interested.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mvdvejqje6xgupq/Bitheadz_Voodoo_1.0.zip/file
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omg thanks so much
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Original ISO for Unity DS-1 please
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Apologies if I'm being ignorant, I'm new to this and just trying to figure out how to open some of these, specifically the zipped ones? I use sheepshaver so if that's the issue I'll accept that explanation but whatever way I try to load them in they seemingly just don't appear as anything but files without any linked program rendering them useless.
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Apologies if I'm being ignorant, I'm new to this and just trying to figure out how to open some of these, specifically the zipped ones? I use sheepshaver so if that's the issue I'll accept that explanation but whatever way I try to load them in they seemingly just don't appear as anything but files without any linked program rendering them useless.
Usually, the simpler is to download the file and copy it to the MacOS 9 machine.
Then, you use Stuffit Expander to unarchive it.
This way, all the OS9 important resources (like the creator and type) should be retained ;)
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I've tried that, doesn't seem to be working properly. If this isn't the right place to ask for help I can move somewhere else but the issue, to me atleast, seems to be with that specific osmosis 2 zip file because no matter where I open it it loads with a mac os x folder, even on an emulation of mac os X 10, and it just throws me an error trying to unzip it on mac os 9. Been trying to figure out what to do about this but I'm really interested in specifically the Unity Classic Library that's there
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.ZIP wasn't a native archive format on MacOS 9, and unfortunately the extended attributes used to encode Mac files (resource forks, creator etc) are not compatible between classic and OS X ZIP implementations.
So if this zip was created on OS X, it won't be possible to extract it properly in OS 9.
You might get lucky with an approach similar to what I used for the Castlewood Orb Tools (http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,4536.msg46790.html#msg46790).
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yup, this is the main point a mac os9 newb need to know:
stuffit supports zip for OS9, but, depending on the content of the archive, it is not compatible with OSX zip and winzip/winrar´s zip.
so when you see a .zip file you never really know what it is and where to extract.
as a result you use .zip in OS9 only for stuff when it is clear how it was made and denote the format when sharing.
i like zip because it is faster, but its use should be kept to a mininum and reserved for big files. otherwise other people might open it in windows an break the content and render it unusable for OS9.
but even better, there is yet another third party zip app for OS9, which is also partially incompatible. if we would not have the chnace to ask the uploader, we could try zipit after something didnt work on OS9 and OSX board tools.
if you ever run into a .rar file which was made ith OS9, this "mac rar" format is generally incompatible with the "unix rar" for OSX and windows. "unix rar" can´t be opened in OS9, but there are "mac rar" apps for OSX.