Lauren's Sound World: R-Explore

Currently, R-Explore supports S-550, S-50, and S-330 disks. W-30 images may be read but are not officially supported.

Features

Play back wave samples
Export single wave sample, or export all samples to a zip archive
Export a text report containing parameter information
Browse parameters

What It Doesn't Do

Edit disk data
Read in disk images; a sample disk must first be imaged with another program such as SDISKW or dd.

Future Planned Features

Support for .HFE file format for use with floppy drive emulators

Platform Support

Windows
Linux
macOS

R-Explore is still in development; it was developed on Linux Mint 20 with Python 3.8. Primary supported platforms are Windows, macOS, and Linux, but it should be possible to install with source dist on any platform with a recent version of Python. R-Explore should require at least Windows Vista due to the Python version used; it's only been tested on Windows 10 so far, so if you have tested it on any other versions please let me know.

During development, I made a map of the S-550 disk format. This is in the repository under docs as diskfmt.txt, but I'll include a more expanded and well formatted document for anyone curious later.

It has also come to my attention that the Windows binary may set off Bitdefender's Advanced Threat Defense detection. This is based on heuristics for determining "suspicious behavior" and does not indicate a specific known threat. I'm looking into this, but in the meantime if you don't wish to circumvent Bitdefender's detection, I recommend attempting to use the source distribution which does not rely on a precompiled binary.

This is the current version. If you experience any issues, please let me know, but also try the previous version below.

DOWNLOADS

Bitbucket Repository (Current Development)
Source distribution (.tar.gz)
Windows 64-bit binary (.zip)
macOS 64-bit App bundle (.dmg)

Installation Notes

macOS: there is now an App bundle available as a .dmg disk image. However, due to toolkit bundling difficulties, you will need to first install the Python 3.7 runtime from the official Python website.
Linux: the binary distribution has been pulled for this version because it didn't really work outside of Debian anyway. Use the source distribution for now, and .deb and .rpm packages are in the works.
Windows: Build has been switched to 64-bit for this version. If you would like a 32-bit version and don't want to use the source distribution, let me know.

Old Stable (0.5 RC1)

DOWNLOADS

Windows 32-bit binary (.zip)
Linux 64-bit binary (.tar.gz)
Source distribution (.tar.gz)
Bitbucket Repository (Old Stable)
Bitbucket Repository (Current Development)

Notes

Note: S-50 disks will display a limited interface; see 'Format Support' section.
macOS: This version has less macOS support and an App bundle is not available for this version. You will need to use the source distribution.
Linux: A binary tarball is provided for this version, but doesn't really work outside of Debian. It may work on Debian as long as you install python3-tk first.

R-Explore: A disk browser for Roland 12-bit samplers

Format Support