Thank for your reply !
Since I posted this I've spent a great amount of time in front of my S1100 so now I'm very comfortable editing stuff from its panel.
I use SCSI only for saving stuff (zip drive) and the whole thing of chaining devices etc just discouraged me from trying an alternative way so I learnt the 'hard' way instead!
For extremely fine chops I sometimes use the akai to record samples I already chopped on the PC.
I believe this is far easier to do than messing with SCSI or MIDI transfers.
Plus,getting samples digitally from a computer to the sampler kind of defeats the purpose (and charm) of the sampler itself nowadays, the main reason these machines are still relevant today is their character.
I personally find the idea of bypassing the A/D stage of an oldschool 16bit sampler and just use it as a sample playback machine not really good or even convenient with the tools we have available today(DAW).
Most of the time if not recorded directly in the Akai, samples will sound virtually the same as if they're triggered from a software sampler!
I do not mean to criticize your workflow in any way each one is different!
I hope that your post will help someone.
Thanks again!
Have fun.
Hi there,
I use an old win XP machine with Adaptec scsi card (really cheap on ebay) and Recycle 1.7. Although you can't send the loops to the PC from a S1100 ( you can from a S3000XL), the S1100 is capable of receiving them + the program information and key mappings for the chopped samples. The only drawback in recycle 1.7 is that stereo samples are converted to mono.I use wave lab 4.0 to send stereo samples and loop markers to the S1100. Works a treat. But I think thats as good as your gonna get with the S1100.Chicken systems Millennium is brilliant for reading akai disks and exporting them to Pc folders. From there you can load to the S1100 via wave lab and/or Recycle!Millenium will only see S3k samplers though, so no hope of remotely programming earlier S1100/S1000 sampler unfortunately.Ive started using Recycle to create a program on the S1100 by dumping the mono sample to it, then fire in the stereo samples via Wavelab and edit the SMP2 page and the panning settings - its a quicker way of creating a program, I find..Hope that helpsRich