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IMPORTANT NOTES REGARDING TAKING DISKS TO A MAC

For the Mac to read MS-DOS disks, it is necessary for the PC EXCHANGE control panel to be

installed and active (which is the usual default following a MacOS installation). However, there

are a few things to bear in mind.

The S5/6000 allows support of long filenames (i.e. greater than eight characters). PC

EXCHANGE only supports long filenames in MacOS 8.1 (or higher) using PC EXCHANGE

V2.2.x (or higher). PC EXCHANGE 2.2.x cannot be used on a MacOS less than OS8.1.

Therefore, if you wish to use filenames longer than eight characters on the S5/6000, you must

use MacOS 8.1 (or higher) and PC EXCHANGE V2.2.x (or higher).

If you are using MacOS 7.x.x or MacOS8, please be sure to restrict filenames on the S5/6000

to a maximum of eight characters or less. Failure to do so may result in unpredictable behaviour

when using S5/6000 disks on your Mac. This is not a limitation of the S5/6000 but of versions

of PC EXCHANGE less than V2.2.x. Please bear in mind that all the default names generated

by the samplers’ autonaming process are greater than 8 characters so you may have some

problems using these unless you specifically rename them to have names shorter than 8

characters. Ideally, as mentioned, MacOS8.1 is recommended.

However, please be aware that even when using S5/6000 disks with PC EXCHANGE 2.2,

there is a known incompatibility where several files all share the same first eight characters.

These will not be recognised correctly by the Mac and what happens is that all the files whose

first characters are identical are renamed to the same name. For example, in one folder, if you

have 5 samples called.....

NEW SAMPLE 1.WAV

NEW SAMPLE 2.WAV

NEW SAMPLE 3.WAV

NEW SAMPLE 4.WAV

NEW SAMPLE 5.WAV

When you open that folder on the Mac, you will only see one sample - NEW SAMPLE 1.WAV.

The files are still there but because the Mac cannot have files with the same name in one

folder, four of them are not shown.

Our engineers are trying to get to the bottom of this strange problem with the Mac’s PC

EXCHANGE and it is due to be fixed in a forthcoming release. In the meantime....

Ensure that the first 8 characters of anything you know will end up on your Mac have unique

characters. For example, instead of BIG STRINGS C1, BIG STRINGS C2, BIG STRINGS C3,

etc., where the first 8 characters - BIG STRI - are identical, call them C1 BIG STRINGS, C2

BIG STRINGS, etc.. With a unique identifier in the first 8 characters, they will show up properly

on the Mac.

Of course, filenames such as KICK 1, KICK 2, SNARE 1, SNARE 2, SNARE 3, etc., will be ok

on the Mac. - the problem is just with multiple files where the first 8 characters are identical.

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