Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Yes if you have access to an esi32, you can load any presets up to 99, save as EIII and the S3200 will import load them.
If you then load more presets into the esi and renumber them to be within this 0-99 range, save as EIII, you can have the rest.
This takes all day for any reasonable size of transfer, and is tedious and error prone.
Even without phone calls about your PPI or daytime TV or ebaY.

I might suggest paying a modest amount of euros to gain access the collection being offered on a German website by KD6.
Some of the manufacturers' collections there have grunged samples too, the 808 and 909 at least.
Some of the odder makes have pretty nasty samples anyway.
I have fond memories of a Soundmaster88 recorded on a Nakamichi 550 that got my home demos started 30 some years ago.
Also the Simmons SDSV onto the Pro Walkman with DolbyC is nicely smoothed out.
He, like me, has been collecting drum machine samples as wav for at least 5 years. 
Unlike me he's got a front door you can knock on.

Personally I went over to the S5000 format because of the wav-ness and the consequent ease of PC archiving.
On a PC you can label everything properly and print lists and other little librarian style nonsense.
The S3200 I have is pretty easy to use and provides a link to most old formats,but the S5000 is even easier. If the S5000 had a emu-like "save as S3000" I wouldn't need an S3200.

I suspect there are a range of more modern solutions to this that the younger folks are enjoying.

Grunging up samples is a personal thing, but I like the guitar-type overloading the Line6 stuff offers. 
I suppose this is the Amp Farm type of result.

Also some analog tape machines can produce interesting coloration on single drums, and if you push the record level high enough you'll hear the tape compression. 
A cassette machine for instance - multiple passes can take the edge right off things.
Pre-eq makes the input circuitry react differently, and the rest of the record chain will grunge up in sympathy.

I'm pretty sure this is an age related opinion, and familiarity of these types of distortion will bias your opinion, though it also depends on your overall instrumentation.
I personally think the small pedals make sounds that are harder to fit in around more traditional instrument sounds unless you spend some time eq-ing the nasties out. 

Even distortion needs Orchestral-type arranging?



--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, Kev <kevymac@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
> the reply is appreciated as well as the offer of analog drum machine  
> samples,  yeah! big old disks them 44mb  jobs, compared to an sd card.
> Not sure if the Esi32 directory will cross over without a bit o  
> converting / re-numbering. I am looking for the ("supposedly good")  
> Wizzoo electronic drums with Akai format section. But I admire that  
> you actually sampled your own drum machines, "much more authentic"
> 
> Good luck
> Kev
> 
> On 17 Oct 2012, at 16:55, Jason Adkins wrote:
> 
> > Hi Kev,
> >
> >
> > Welcome to the group.
> > How are the 44mb Sy-Quests bearing up? I use a Zip,external 500mb HD  
> > and an external CD-Rom with my S5000 but I have always wondered what  
> > the Sy-Quest's were like.
> > My friend had an S1100 sounded a nice machine certainly sounds  
> > better than the stock S5000.
> >
> > I used to have an X7000 my first sampler if you don't include an  
> > Atari ST cart I liked it but those stupid 2.8inch microdiscs did my  
> > head in,also that seperate out cable was a pig 13pin din I think  
> > always kept having to resolder that.
> >
> > Do you know what type of samples your S1100 can import because I  
> > have a CD-Rom I can upload to you with lots of old analogue drum  
> > machine samples I made for my ESi32 which the S5000 loads not sure  
> > about S1100 or S3000XL?
> >
> > I used to have a TR505 too,basically sounds a bit like a 707 with a  
> > couple of 727 latin percussion sounds I used to love the rubbery  
> > kick drum.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > On 17 Oct 2012, at 09:05, patternsinthewaves wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> Really happy to join. i got an 1100 from a studio with a massiv  
> >> library on old 44MB Sy-Quest drives. Just fitted a new back liight,  
> >> S1100 is happy, i'm happy.
> >> love the sound of Akai samplers, especially this one, the FX sound  
> >> really nice.
> >>
> >> Keen but just got on the learning curve with CF/SD storage with IDE/ 
> >> SCSI, bridge/card reader.
> >>
> >> 2x X7000 keyboards /with memory and OS upgrades.
> >> 2x S3000XL triggered by tr626 and tr505 to get closer to tr808/tr909
> >> S1100
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Kev
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>