daddio schrieb:
Let me get this straight ...
You've had a scsi drive connected to the scsi cdrom and you can see samples
on the hard drive from the sampler?
You need to have a SCSI harddrive as also a CD-ROM drive connected to your S1100,- the harddrive to store programs and samples as volumes/banks.
A volume/ bank is the content of the whole RAM of an S1000/S1100 being sub-devided in programs and samples.
You see volumes, programs and samples being loaded into the S1100´s RAM in the display of the S1100 as also you see volumes, programs and samples on a CD-ROM being inserted in the CD-ROM drive in the SCSI chain.
This must be a AKAI format CD-ROM media, ISO isn´t recognized.
There are 3 ways to get material into the RAM: Floppy disks w/ programs/samples, CD-ROMs or real sampling.
All transfer is running via the S1100´s RAM if SCSI devices are being conected to a Akai S1000/S1100.
If you have the programs I mentioned and a SCSI adapter card for your PC, you can connect the S1100 directly to the PC
for transfering samples and so on. But because the S1100 has only a max of 32Meg of memory, this would result in a continuous connection of the S1100 w/ the PC.
I prefer to collect my samples, programs on the SCSI harddrive and occasionally connect the drive to the PC to store larger libray collections there.
On the PC then, it´s possible to create different compilations of programs/samples, burn ´em on a CD-ROM and import ´em this way into the S1100 on demand without having the S110 being connected to the PC.
If you perform w/ a S1100, maybe on stage, - you´re fine w/ a 540 MB harddrive, that´s arouind 20 volumes/banks = 20x the S1100 memory itself. You see these volumes, programs and samples obe by one in the S1100 display if you scroll thru the harddrives content. You can load volumes/banks by midi program change command from THE harddrive into the S1100´s memory and change programs by midi prg.-change within the S1100 too.
You cannot select different harddrives by midi commands, this has to be done manually selected by SCSI ID, - so 1 HD is enough anyway.
your question below:
S1000 / S1000PB and S1100 adressable partitions of a drive is a max of 60MB.
If you try to format a SCSI HD w/ the sampler, you will be asked for partition sizes you wish, but the max. is 60Meg.
So, you can have 8-9 partitions on a 540 Meg drive in 60meg sizes or more partitions in smaller sizes.
Formatting of a drive reduces the storage capacity of a 540Meg drive to a real amount of 520 Meg or so, so it will be 8 partitions pf 60MB and a smaller one.
The S1100 sees one partition at a time, each as a virtual drive.
You can have 7 devices in a chain w/ SCSI, the S1100, the CD-ROM and 5 harddrives, each devided into partitions.
Or, - S1100, CD-ROM, 4 harddrives and a computer w/ SCSI PCI adapter.
Last device one must be terminated.
You cannot have several S1000/S1100 in the same SCSI chain ´cause their SCSI ID is fixed (#5 or #6 AFAIK).
The S1100 is a good sounding machine, I kept all my S-Samplers up today even I use software samplers ( which don´t sample except the EMU-X2) like Steinberg Halion and NI Kontakt mainly these days... :-)
And if I have that right, is there any
limit to how many 540mb partitions the S1100 can see, just one? Only one
drive in the chain, or can you add more (terminating the last one of
course)?
gm
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