Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Jan,

Right, almost all IC's are glued/soldered to the mainboard.
I think that most people are happy with the sound - apart from the
effects and the filter. A more important problem on samplers is that
they are quite difficult to program (the small screen , keys). It
should be nice to have a better interface to program the sampler. The
roland 750 and 760 had an optional CRT/mouse option board. But another
solution could be a small linux embedded webserver in the sampler.
The only thing to know then are the addresses of the subroutines in
the ROMS.
 
The s1100 is a nice sampler to extend because there are so many empty
slots available. You can reach all data adress and control lines from
the bus.

For improvements to the effects and filters a much easier solution is
to buy cheap effects on ebay. BTW: akai has an external filterbank
available. 

Regards,

Frank
amplers@yahoogroups.com, "taurecords" <TaurusRecords@g...> wrote:
> 
> Many thanks - that's exactly what I wanted to know - just too bad this
> seems to indicate the chip is in a LCC-type case (or PGA).. so
> upgrades would be a bit more difficult to manage.
> 
> However - I could still try to supply it with some "backup" processors
> - maybe abusing the expansion/option card slots, or trying to
> piggy-back a module to some locations of the DIL-case-chips, which use
> the adress space & the data-bus of the CPU to the most.
> 
> I'd love to write some routines for fast,resonance-capable filters,
> however - this will require either additional horsepower (in form of
> CPUs or DSPs) - or I'll have to stick with "real" analog filter
circuits.
> 
> Also re-doing the user-interface a bit (for which most likely the V50
> is responsible) - and adding some horse-power to this is a goal I want
> to achieve.
> 
> But first I have to buy a S1100 :-) - I have one offer for 159 bucks -
> that seems to be ok.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> -Jan
> 
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "formals777"
> <wafwaf@p...> wrote:
> ..The S1100 is based on the NEC V50.