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Am 28.07.2011 05:27, schrieb djo3yk:
Hi PeWe,
Thanks for your response. Really appreciate it.
When I said "I think there is only 1047040 KB of memory (1 meg roughly)". I got that figure from the "free:" indicator from the EDIT SAMPLE page. I assumed it was KB but after reading page 35 in the manual it corresponds to 2 MB.
I will definitely be picking up the EL-Foil soon and upgrading the OS to v4.4
If you boot the S-1000/ S-1000PB or S-1100,- you´ll see amount of RAM in megawords and OS version in the display.
I have 2 S-1100 samplers ...
One is slightly damaged and has version 1.36 eproms,- the other is fully working and has version 4.4 eproms ...
To my surprise,- the fully working machine w/ OS 4.4 doesn´t perform any service routines as described in the service manual,- testing memory cards and processor RAM.
The version 1.36 does !
Maybe something changed in version 4.4 not being documented in the service manual or it´s another weird behaviour.
Maybe someone in the group may chime in on this subject.
As I said,- if you find a program communicating w/ Akai S-1100 over MIDI/sysex and using the/a SCSI controller card for data mass storage, the app being able to work w/ your computer and Windows OS,- that would be ideal,- but I myself I don´t know such an application.
When I said "integrate w/ my PC" I mean I would like to send samples that I have in wav format to the AKAI S1000. I had thought I could get a SCSI HDD 500mb and a SCSI PCI card, connect the HDD to the SCSI PCI via 50 pin SCSI Mini within my PC and then connect the SCSI PCI card to the SCSI connection in the back of the S1000 with a Centronics SCSI 50 cable. That way I was hoping to send samples to the SCSI HDD via the PC and then load the samples from the SCSI HDD using the S1000. I know I have to be careful about concurrent writing/reading (i.e. both writing to the HDD at the same time).
The SCSI conttroller card inside a PC is nothing else than a dumb connection for SCSI devices and there are many differences to find between SCSI devices.
AKAI samplers e SCSI 1 / 2 (fast SCSI eventually),- not more,- no wide, no ultra wide, no LVD and such.
You have to find the right card anyway and most of these are from thepast 2-3 decades, being not compatible w/ modern OS in PCs.
I´m using this card for SCSI communication in a PC and w/ Win XP and it works also w( my EMU E64 sampler.
http://www.adaptec.com/de-de/support/scsi/2900/ava-2904/
I set up a old single core Pentium 4 2.66GHz maschine for this purpose and found a MINI SCSI 50 to Centronics 50 cable.
Internally, I´m able to connect any other SCSI drive to the card w/ a standard 50-pin SCSI cable.
What you get is, you get your externally stored sample data into the PC machine,- what the PC does w/ this data is a matter of any application.
I´m using Steinberg Wavelab 4.01b as a sample editor for Akai S-1000 series samplers and EMU E64.
Wavelab up to version 4 supports AKAI S-1000 series sampler, but over MIDI only,- but it supports the SCSI interface of a EMU EOS sampler.
Is there any way to convert existing WAVs into a format AKAI can understand (without shelling lots of money on software converters or using that Chicken software) and then send them to the S100 via MIDI, sysex or something like that. I know it would take a long time, I could run it overnight or something. At least then I could just save those samples to a floppy until I can get SCSI hooked up and working.
You NEED a sample conversion application incl. the ability to convwert the AKAI programs to any other formats and best in both directions.
Check out Extreme Sample Converter and CD Xtract,- double check which app does the tricks.
No way around this,- AKAI format is a special format which has to be converted for usage on a PC.
I'm also having problems assigning samples that I have recorded into a keygroup so that I can play it from my MIDI controller. I can play the SAWTOOTH, PULSE, SINE and SQUARE fine but not my recorded samples. When I select the samples from the Program that I saved it under it still says 0 samples even though I saved 2 of them to the floppy.
Is there some sort of tutorial for beginners, some of the things in the manual don't seem to apply to my S1000 (I'm running v1.1). For instance I can't find SMP3 from within the SMP2 page.
Only 4 letters ...
RTFM
:-D
Super cheers,
Joey.
PeWe