Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

You seem to be in luck, my hard drive archive is still alive and didn't give me no jive....
It's not the manual but a reviewer's paraphrasing of the instructions, the slightly jocular tone isn't mine, apart from the above line.
Well used dishwater? times must have been hard back then.
This is section 4, the others may be useful too, but it's all a bit banter-ridden, see how you do with this first


Since there are no buttons on the S1100 marked ‘S1100EX’ there must be a clever way of 
telling the linked system what you want to do. 
There is. Press the Mark key and hold it for just over a second. 
A SCSI status line appears on the bottom of the display which you can mostly ignore after 
the initial setting up. 
While holding the Mark key press the Ent/Play key and this will select a mode in which the 
S1100 is operating on its own. 
This isn’t what you paid all your money for so let’s load the S1100 up with some sounds as 
quickly as possible and move on. 
After you have filled your S1100 with 2 Meg, 10 Meg or 32 Meg of sounds, according to its 
capabilities, hold down the Mark key again until the status line appears and press the +/< 
key. 
The LCD screen will go into ‘reverse video’ and the parts that were grey before will turn 
blue and the parts that were blue will turn grey (actually a shade more reminiscent of well 
used dishwater). 
This tells you without any shadow of doubt that you are now operating the S1100EX. Every 
command you enter now will be piped straight down the SCSI cable to the S1100EX, as will 
the sample data you enter from floppy disk, hard disk or CD ROM. 
The beauty of the system is that apart from one key combination to set the S1100EX into 
Multitimbral mode, and two more to swap between the two units, there is nothing else you 
have to learn. You have saved a considerable sum of money and operation is as easy as 
before. In fact, the best way to think of this mode is as two S1100s. Keep that in mind and 
you can’t go wrong.



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 From: K <kmeksz@yahoo.com>
To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012, 15:25
Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Akai S1100 EX
 

  
Do you remember if there was a button combination to enter ex mode on the 1100, I've tried every combination of SCSI ids on both units to no avail.

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, Les Lambert <les_lmbrt@...> wrote:
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> 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@...m 
> Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012, 22:04
> Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Akai S1100 EX
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> 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
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