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This type of media needs specific and particular "treatment" for it's formatting, which is not a global standard The AKAI "FORMAT" command is intended rather for HD drives, not for removable media. "You must never "AKAI FORMAT" removable media like ZIPs, JAZs, MOs, Sysquests etc.
Just (my thought) I am afraid it would run under OS9 rather than on Snow Leopard.įrom the good times of the S3000XL have a look at this page:Īnd about ZIP disks pay attention to this: (taken from the same website)
#Awave studio alternative software
The AKAI software MESA might help you, but I never tried it so I can't tell you much about it.
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The S3000XL writes and formats disks in its proprietary standard and doesn't read Mac or PC formatted drives (zip, jaz, or HDs).Īt the same time you won't be able to read with the iMac the samples you write to disks with the sampler. In that sense the Kurzweil was more easily integrated. sorry for the n00bie questions Well, it's not so easy. Is the actual sampling what makes the sound of the AKAI so unique? Or is it the way they sound when they are played from it? I was just wondering: if I found a USB Iomega zip drive and a SCSI one, would I be able to copy samples from my iMac on a zip-disc via USB and then using the SCSI drive to import them on the S3000? Do I need a special program to convert the samples into AKAI format? Kurzweil K2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Take a look at the specs of a K2000 with OS 3.87 (keyboard and rack are almost identical except that Keyboard model had a single SCSI, less individual outs and the internal fan which was optional) The K2000 could be priced as near as an S3200XL while I suppose you'll need a bit more for a K2500R with KDFX. Its successor, the K2500R had double polyphony and an optional effect board called KDFX that improved the not so great internal effects quality provided by a Digitech chip. The polyphony was 24 voices for sample sounds, but the great point is that the K2000 was a sort of VA synth ahead of its times, it generated synthetic waveforms via internal algorithms for an additional polyphony that reached 96 notes (24 sampled, 72 synthetic) Maximum RAM available was 64 Mb on standard 30 pin simms.
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The K2000 with OS 3.87 could load WAV and AIFF samples with loop points, reads AKAI, Roland and E-MU CDROMs reads and write up to 2.1 GB partitions on SCSI Harddisks or Jaz drives reads samples and programs from standard ISO 9660 CDROMs + dual SCSI interface and 8 individual Outputs. If you don't want to sample on the machine itself you can find a unit even without the expensive sampling option and load the samples via SCSI or Floppies. It was a very good synthesizer/sampler in the 90s. I would say that 32 mb would be preferable if you load synth sounds with a lot of multisamples and very long individual samples you can get out of RAM.Īn interesting alternative (sorry if I drift here.) could be thinking at a good old Kurzweil K2000R S3200XL had also the internal effects board, while on the S3000XL it was an expensive optional the 3000XL has the advantage of being just 2 rack units, while 3200XL is the classic 3UR (like the 1000/1100) SCSI was standard in these units and you can hook a SCSI ZIP or better a Iomega Jazz drive (Note that AKAIs could only format and access 540 MB of data) for quick loading Programs and Samples.
#Awave studio alternative series
If you are considering the older S1000 / S3000 series I'd suggest to look at the XL series (S3000XL, S3200XL): they used standard 72pins RAM chips and can be easily found fully fitted with 32 Mb they have 32 voices polyphony, which is like having two S1000 in one box. It was the AKAI ME35T (upper unit below an S950)Īn alternative could be the SIMMONS MTM trigger unit, which might be more expensive but also more versatile.
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Plus dabbling around with some old school equipment seems quite an interesting prospect.ĪKAI built a Trigger-To-MIDI unit in the late 80s that was quite popular among drummers using AKAI samplers I know that the best solution would be to get a macbook, pimp it up and devote it exclusively to this, but what we're looking for is a budget solution. I've heard good things about the s-3000 and s-1000 while the s-2000 is not generally recommended for its small screen. The second question (assuming the answer to the first one is yes) is which model would allow me to do this.
but I wouldn't mind doing it if it was a one time thing. Keyboard 1&2 -> MIDI router -> AKAI -> AKAI Output (synths)įirst of all, is this possible? I know it would take a considerable amount of time with all the sampling etc. Triggers -> Drum Brain -> MIDI router -> AKAI -> AKAI Output (drums) I was thinking was to record drum samples on the AKAI as well as sampling the synths and then connect/route things as follows. Looking around on ebay I saw some of those famous AKAI samplers going quite cheap which made me wonder whether they could be used in a live situation instead of relying on computers.
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