At 07:39 AM 1/27/2005 -0800, you wrote: >I recently bought Dan Dean's Solo Strings CD, and though it sounds great >and imports well into EXS from its native Giga format, the sustains aren't >looped and are quite short due to its origin as a hardware-based library. >Dan sent me some .art update files with sustained loops, but of course EXS >can't do anything with those. I don't believe Translator or CDXtract can >convert .art files to EXS, either. Translator on Windows does. An .art file is essentially all new Instrument information without the samples. Translator takes the .art info and connects it to the .gig file, if it's the same name. If a same-name doesn't exist, it asks you which .gig file to connect too. But I think you are using Mac - if you have a Win machine you can do this. We were going to make a utility that updates .gig files with appropriate .art files, but haven't had a chance. Perhaps I should do that today or something. If not, I'm in California at the moment through Monday - if you are willing to wait 'Til Tuesday, I'll "carry those voices" over Internet to you. =) Specifically, I think you are looking for .exs files that have been converted from the ".arted" .gig files, instead of the "version 1" .gig files, since the new loop points are in the Instrument data, not the samples. Garth Hjelte Sampler User