Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Glad a Prommer worked for you, maybe they fixed that problem after I got mine, I was very keen, had somebody fetch one of the first available to the UK by hand. Ouch. 
$700 for the unit. Later they got cheap, think the next was 200, then the last 120. 

The EPROMs then were 2716, 2732, 2764,27128 all of which I used for sounds without issue, and software was gradually getting onto bigger chips, which I did use for archiving the contents of the Prommer without any trouble too. 
It might be that the non-companded mode may have had more than one revision.
I probably tried copying anything we had at the hire company , the PCM70 rev3 was a candidate, probably the 224 was doing the later programmes by 1987, but gave up after a couple of months getting nowhere with any of the software copying, borrowed a Stagg from my AMS Neve contact which was great. These days I get my friend who still does this for a living to do them for me.

There was also a tendancy for the sampler section to lose the ability to sample at either 24 or 16KHz, which seemed to creep up on the unit, each one gradually failing . The third hasn't had a test yet, so far it's just checked my old copies, many of which have reverted to random data. 
As you can imagine is tedious, no copies 24 years later except on a master DAT which is gone after being copied onto CDR, which as we are discovering often fail too. There was a Mitsubishi X80 1/4in master copy, but those are mostly in the landfill now.

Heading for the Landfill, decent name for an over 60's band huh?


--- On Thu, 28/7/11, PeWe <ha-pewe@...> wrote:

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Subject: Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
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Date: Thursday, 28 July, 2011, 21:56















 
 



  


    
      
      
      
  
  
    

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    Am 28.07.2011 21:50, schrieb Les Lambert:
    
       
      
          
            
              
                
                  
                    The Prommer
                      defenitely doesn't do software copies, despite the
                      claim they made in the user and service manuals.
                      I've had 3 of them, software copies always fail on
                      checksum, unit fails to boot etc.  
                  
                
              
            
          
        
      
    
    That´s new to me because we did in a music shop/service center in
    the 8s for Sequental Circuits Prophet 5, Oberheim OB-8 and some
    more.

    Seems it depends on type of eprom, size and bit depth,- it was all 8
    Bit at that time.

    But I dot know if it works w/ AKAI eproms, it´s a much younger
    machine.