Emagic Sounddiver for PC and Mac includes a program-editor module for the Akai S-1100.
It´s discontinued, so to have to find it used @ebay.
There´s also a Sounddiver users group @yahoo.
Probably you´ll find more info there.
Sounddiver runs with Windows systems from Win95 to Win 2000 AFAIK ( or a MAC OS 8 up to 9.2)
CDXtract might be the program which allows you to burn and store Akai CD-ROM images in S1000/S1100 format on a PC as also to built up a library of samples.
For sample transfer, you´ll need a (Adaptec) SCSI PCI card for the PC w/ a 50pin Centronics connector, a SCSI hard drive not larger than 540MB (or 1GB which you format to 540MB) and a compatible older CD-ROM drive for the S1100.
If you have written your S1100 library as AKAI CD-ROM images w/ CDXtract, you can burn original AKAI format CDs from this and read this CDs content w/ the external CD-ROM drive into your S-1100 and store a selection of Samples/programs onto the external SCSI harddrive being connected together w/ the CD ROM drive in a SCSI chain.
In addition, a good sample editor which supports the S1000/S1100 is a good idea.
Forget the ATARI for sample editing, it´s good for midi but sample transfer over midi is by far too slow and 4Meg of RAM is worth nothing for a full blown 32meg S1100.
Older versions of Propellerheads ReCycle ( v1.5 possibly up to 1.7) supported AKAI hardware samplers on PC AFAIK.
In any case you´ll need several programs, there´s no one which can do it all, - and the add. SCSI hardware.
PeWe
Matthew O'Donnell schrieb:
Hi everyone, first post so I've got three, count em, questions:
Can somebody can point me in the direction of some software I can use to operate the S1100 from my Atari or PC?
Has anybody tried using a USB SCSI interface to use their computer as SCSI storage for the sampler?
I've also got an S950 that freezes up if it's not used - so 30 seconds after I power it up, it'll freeze and not accept any input. If I give it something to think about, it'll stay alive for a bit longer, but not long enough to do anything useful.
It seems as if the RAM's corrupt; does anyone have a suggestion? Is the RAM replaceable?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Matt