Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Finally I found a CD-ROm that works - Apple CD600e.

Anyway I have old Mac PPC with SCSI that I use for Yamaha VL7 editors (strange that nothing else works with them) which might be running the Sound Designer 1.5. 

Is the Sound Designer able to edit S1000? (I used to have Emulator II with Sound Designer that worked as a full editor for EII) ... and what about the S950 over serial port? Where I can get these vintage softwares?

Thanks

Tom

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, PeWe <ha-pewe@...> wrote:
>
> CDXtract is ideal for AKAI S-1000/S-1100, EMU, Kurzweil etc. and it also 
> does conversions to software samplers like Kontakt and Halion as well as 
> between the hardware samplers.
> It also stores images of CD-ROMs to the harddrive of a PC.
> But,- once the data is stored on the PCs harddrive, the data can be read 
> by CDXtract only and in the original format.
> 
> For communication w/ a AKAI s-series sampler,  you´d need a program 
> reading that format and communicate w/ a SCSI card built into the PC and 
> a to that SCSI card connected S-1000/1100 or SCSI drive.
> I´m not sure whether CDXtract can access a SCSI card built into a PC or 
> not,- I never tried and I doubt the latest version does.
> Maybe earlier versions ...
> 
> I have a Adaptec card in one of my PCs,- I believe it´s a 2904 and it 
> works w/ Win XP and has a Mini Centronics 50 connector externaly as well 
> as a SCSI connector internally.
> The only application I know, working w/ samples over the external SCSI 
> connection of that card, is Steinberg Wavelab 4.01b, which is the 
> highest version supporting SCSI,- but it works only w/ EMU E64.
> For the S-1000, there´s MIDI sample dump standard only and that´s slow.
> 
> With a old Mac PPC, which has a SCSI connector and running Roxio p.ex., 
> it´s absolutely easy to do 1:1 SCSI copy of any optical, harddrive or 
> removable media drive, but works only for the complete content/media.
> So doing a SCSI copy of a CD-ROM to a ZIP media doesn´t work because the 
> Zip media stores 100MB or 270MB at max..
> 
> Digidesign Sound Designer 1.5 for Atari / Mac works w/ AKAI 16Bit samplers.
> Macs from that era have SCSI,- ATARI and S-1000/1100 need to have the 
> AKAI IB-??? Supra drive card built in, not the IB-103 SCSI card.
> 
> The only "almost no compromize" app was MESA for the Mac and AKAI 
> S-2000, but didn´t work w/ S-1000/S-1100 unfortunately.
> 
> Best is to have a compatible SCSI CD-ROM drive, harddrives etc. w/ 
> S-1000/ S-1100, but all the editing is from the AKAI´s frontpanel then.
> 
> 
> Am 04.02.2012 02:39, schrieb Ben Clark Jr:
> > I think you can use CDXtract to do that. I might still have a SCSI CD 
> > Rom that works with the S1000. Haven't used it in a while
> > but I will test if you are interested in it.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* tomas_peterka <a.tom.x@...>
> > *To:* akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:11 AM
> > *Subject:* [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Akai CD-ROM transfer samples to 
> > ZIP disk in Windows
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have S1000 and couple of sample CD-ROMs (Akai format). I was not 
> > able to find SCSI CD-ROM drive compatible with S1000, but the S1000 
> > works OK with ZIP drive.
> >
> > Is it possible to copy the samples and programs from Akai CD in 
> > Windows PC to Akai formated ZIP drive? (in Awave, Chicksys Translator, 
> > CD-Extract or some other software)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tomas
>