Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

I had the same experience, but you need the paperwork to understand what's going on.
I couldn't find an electronic copy, but had a printed one under a pile of old magazines.

I don't have the two units now or the documentation, but from memory, there was some issue with making sure the SCSI ID was different on the EX, of course, then you could access the EX and there was a reverse video effect that indicated that you had access,and which machine's RAM you were dealing with.
I can't be any clearer, maybe someone else could be more useful

It wasn't very intuitive and even when it worked I had feelings of uncertainty, so gave up quite quickly and bought something else.
Not my normal result, don't feel you should find it easy either.

Too many Akai's spoil the broth.
A Rolling Stone gathers no MOSS. etc etc




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 From: jo.menendez <jo.menendez@...>
To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012, 22:04
Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Akai S1100 EX
 

  
Hello everybody
I bought an S1100 EX and i just can't figure out how to make it work, if i connect a midi cable to the EX i can get sound from it (like a sine wave) but when connected  to the S1100 sampler is like nothing happens, there isn't any indication in the sampler that the expander is connected, when booting up i can't see the memory from the expander in the sampler, i don't know what i'm doing wrong, i haven't been able to find the manual for the S1100EX, i thought that by connecting the 2 units with the scsi cable i would link the 2 units but that isn't happening, the sampler has the 4.3 OS  and the expander has the 1.39 chips installed, could anybody please help me out with this ? i would appreciate any help. Thank you