Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi there,

Well, I'm actually trying to do exactly that, use my S1100 as a Synth. 
I'm grabbing some simple (and short!) wave  samples from some nice 
freeware soundfonts (Vintage Dreams Waves for instance) and layering a 
wave with an inverted version of the same in order to use the low pass 
filter on the Akai as actually a band pass filter (a hint I found on the 
net). Oh, you do need to care 'bout phase sample coherence for that!
The harder stuff I'm trying is using short samples created on csound 
using diverse synthesis methods for the same purpose, granular synthesis 
sound 're awesome.
... I mean, a low budget 16 poly analog synth thingy is not that bad on 
the end, isn't it? Too bad the filters have no MIDI realtime modulation, 
just LFO/velocity/EG.

Standard use for an S1000 anyway is as a sample drum playing machine, 
nowadays instrumental samples are way to heavy and not actually designed 
to fit on a low memory sampler. You could always get one of this heavier 
samples and resample it on 22khz for instance to get some low-fi effects :)

  cheers and good luck!

Seba.

> whats up audiophiles? Long time akai user and lover. Just recently got
> an s1000. I was wondering if anybody out there is using it as a synth,
> and how? Or what the best uses are for it? I bought it because I got
> it for $80 with 8 megs and scsi. Now I want to get a feeling on how
> the people out there are using it. I know its a work horse.
> thanks in advance.
> -Rob
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