Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi again.. 

in a few month of using S1100 I didn't find any solution for my
problem described at the bottom of this post.. Can anyone please
describe how to  use this sampler in multi-timbral mode.. how do you
place programs on different midi channels.. I know it is possible and
I already did this, but it is pain in the ... compared to other samplers..

I got Ensoniq ASR-10 which is realy easy to use, now I am thinking
about selling S1100 or buying scsi CD for it. But... are the programs
on AKAI CDs prepared for multi-timbral mode..

I realy don't understand why people are so happy with this sampler..
ok, it sounds great but who cares.. it has the worse interface in the
world.. correct me if I am wrong.. I would really like to konw the trick..

Please help me.. I don't want to loose more money and time for buing
scsi cdrom.. unless this is the key.. 

thanks, 
Miha

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "manaay"
<mlampret@e...> wrote:
> One question about user interface. Does all AKAI samplers have user
> interface like S1100? What I don't like is that I have to select midi
> channel for each program and not program for midi channel. So if I am
> searching for some sound that I want on midi channel 2 I need to go
> through all programs and set it's midi channel to 2 and if I dont like
> that sound I need to turn it off and go to next program and repeat
> this procedure and so on for each program.. It that true? I hope there
> is an easier way to do that. On my Kurzweil 2500 I just choose midi
> channel.. and than scrool through programs... much faster..