The Convert Menu

SET DESTINATION
This allows you to specify the destination for all file conversions. You should check this before any conversions, particularly batch conversions and when chaining together multiple operations.

Convert AIFF to SDII

Convert SDII to AIFF

Convert AIFF to Quicktime

Convert Quicktime to AIFF

Convert SDII to .WAV, .RAW, .SMP Microsoft .WAV, PC.RAW (intel format byte ordering), SampleVision.

Convert SDII Stereo to Mono.
Two modes are available 
1: Split one stereo file to two mono files.
2: MixDown stereo to one mono file.

Convert SDII Mono.to Stereo
Two modes are available 
1: Join two mono files (.Left and .Right) into one stereo file
2: Double up one mono to a stereo file with identical channels.

Convert SDII 16bit to 8bit
This is a very simple byte crop operation, not a high quality dithered or noise shaped function. It is intended for ue after an operation with a WAVES product such as L1 where data is compressed into 8 bits, but the file is left as in a 16 bit format. It is identical to the WAVES WaveStrip function.

SDII ADD SILENCE
This batch process adds an area of silence at the start or end of SDII files.

RAW TO SDII
This batch process allows import of any DATA FORK based files such as a PC Raw file. It will also allow import of non supported files given a knowledge of the header size and data format.

SDII TO SND
This batch process allows conversion from SDII to Mac SND sound files. These files may be played by double clicking in the finder. Note that SND files are resource based and require that the entire sound can be held in memory for conversion and playback. If you experience memory difficulties, expand the memory partition given to SampleSearch, or consider using a more appropriate file format such as AIFF which is commonly supported but does not have the restrictions of SND files.

SDII MARKERS / REGIONS CONVERSION
This batch process allows conversion between SDII markers and regions. One or two markers can be used for each region . A good application of this function is to drop numbered markers on the fly between sections in Sound Designer II when recording in source material, then converting each marker / pair into a region. These regions can then be exported and autocropped with SampleSearch. This allows virtually automatic editing of sound into relevant sections.

RECOVER SDII FILES
This batch process allows SampleSearch to copy the Data fork of a damaged file into a new SDII file and add new resource fork parameters as specified in the dialog box. Note that no information is recovered from the resource fork of the damaged file, and hence no regions or other non-audio information is recovered. A damaged resource fork will often prevent Sound Designer II from opening the file, often reporting a disk error.