Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Haha Dude, i just Got a S5000 before christmas.
Still i had no chance to do much comparision and i don´t have sampled material from the s1000 because i never used it much because the display sucked. ;-))


--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, Les Lambert <les_lmbrt@...> wrote:
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> 1. Get an S5000, the display's much nicer, it'll play all your old samples. 
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> Â Â Â  If it's too clean, do what guitar players have always done, use a valve amp or modern equivalent.
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> 2. Get out more, take some of your music to people yuou visit and see if they like it. Or not.
> Â Â Â  Either way you win.
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> Just my view. [: >)
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> ________________________________
>  From: juppdich <juppdich@...>
> To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 16:14
> Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: LCD Backlight
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> I realy like to have the S1000 with a LED Display.
> The EL Light Thing ist not powerful enough for Eye Relaxing.
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> I would like to start diggin this, here are some infos i gathered:
> -Its a very Proprietary Type of LCD
> -Display has 240 * 64 Pixels
> -Controlled via 1 Bit serial Bus
> -Has no controller onboard (rare these days)
> -Max thickness for Backlight: 2.9 mm, Size: 13mm x 3.9mm
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> Possible approaches towards a LED Display could be:
> -Buying a ready Led Backlight (i found none 2,9mm thick) :-(
> -DIY Building a customised Backlight from Plexiglas/Led
> -Hacking with Microcontroller to translate the 1 Bit Akai bus into a modern Display 
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> So, what are your Opinions?
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