Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by Rish
Ya no prob, lete know of you need more details or of your not sure about the soldering. Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU.
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Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by nicknak110756
Thanks for the advice man, not installed one before so thats most welcome.
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by Rish
Ok...sounds good, you will need to order a 50 pin IDE thru board header and solder it in place on the tail end of your SCSI card. Then you will need about a
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by nicknak110756
Thanks for the offer Rish but i ll have to hold off till i see what turns up. if i do buy another unit i will give you a shout as my current one is almost
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by Rish
They seem to go pretty cheap these days, I will make you a deal if your unit is full on memory and you get one with a good amount say (8meg card) I will buy it
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by nicknak110756
Thanks!
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by PeWe
You received the AKAI manuals Rish ??? PeWe
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by PeWe
Buy one from MUTEC! http://www.mutec-net.de/ DIB-01 ofr DIB-04 website doesn´t work properly. Drop ´em a mail and ask for which is right for AKAI S-1xxx
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by nicknak110756
Hi Rish, my thoughts exactly tho im not happy as i bought it as working. got it cheap tho so hopefully can pick another up and mix and match
Re:Akai SCSI bus not seeing external drives
2011-08-08 by nicknak110756
interesting, many thanks. i will deffo give it a go as it cant make it any worse. can you tell where you got the replacement part from please? Thanks again
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by nicknak110756
Hi PeWe Thanks for the reply mate, i ve been through all options and it seems the IB-103 card has an issue as i first thought. its not good news at all if so
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-08 by Rish
Ya then like Pee wee says it s prob the card, I would try to pick up a spare parts unit. Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU.
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re:Akai SCSI bus not seeing external drives
2011-08-08 by Les Lambert
Apologies if you already tried this or if it s not applicable to your problem, but........, On my Akai S3200 there is a small piece that can die and give this
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by PeWe
What about troubleshooting ? You have IB-103 SCSI card in your S-1100 w/ 50-pol Centronics connector ? You have a ext. SCSI ZIP drive w/ 25-PIN connector ? You
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by nicknak110756
Hi Rish its a possibility i agree but i cant think what as its a pretty straight forward procedure. i ve followed the instructions laid out in the manual just
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by Rish
Well if there are no hardware issues you must be doing something wrong in the setup and selection of the SCSI devise. Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN,
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by nicknak110756
Hi Rish, thats what i thought at first so i bought a second drive only for the same thing to happen. i suppose i could have two bad drives but the odds on that
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by Rish
You know it almost sounds like you have a bad zip disc or drive. Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU.
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by nicknak110756
HI Rish, i take it you mean the SCSI ID and the Sampler Id when you say channels? its a 100mb Zip drive im using and it wont allow me to format at all. i meant
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by Rish
Ya you have to make sure on the right channels and format the zip disk as well. What kind of zip is it exactly? Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-07 by nicknak110756
Hi Rish, not much mate, the floppy is dead for sure and the when i hook my zip drive up to the scsi port it keeps coming up as hard disk drive not ready or
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-07 by Mike Wolak
Lets not forget the Akai S612. At it s lowest sample rate, 4khz , it s about as grungy as it gets. What s amazing is that with it s analog filters even 4khz
Re: how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-07 by Vicious Lee
I have a EPS 16+ and an S1000 nad they both are very clean sounding. Advantage to the EPS+ for it s built in effects. It came with double memory and 6 outs,
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-06 by Rish
Well, what does it do? Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU.
Re: S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-06 by nicknak110756
Thanks for all the replies guys, very much appreciated! think i ll deffo look into the internal scsi option if i can get one for a good price. its a real shame
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-06 by mike yates
ok :) thanks guys Mike ... From: PeWe To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:07 PM Subject: Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers]
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-05 by Rish
Yes you are lucky cause there are only 2 that will work that way and they have not been available for 10 yrs. Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-05 by amenophis@cheapnet.it
Great! I m a lucky man. I found 2 Teac FD-235 (2 different revisions) on eBay (3 euro both) and it s works on my S1100 and my S3000i. I ve just changed the
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-05 by Rish
Not true teac made about 10 revisions of the FD-235-H series drives, I know this as 7 of them I worked on with Teac. They no longer make these drives. The
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-05 by amenophis@cheapnet.it
Hi there, the Akai S1100 floppy drive is a Teac FD-235HF which is used also in PC; if you find one which works, you have just to change the Teac FD-235HF PC
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-05 by Rish
I was never able to fully config a floppy for the Akai S series but I will say the clown selling them on EBay for $149.00 is crazy! That s a rip off and they
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-05 by PeWe
Floppy drives for AKAI S series sampler are relatively expensive,- not every drive works. Think about ditching the floppy and replace it by a 3.5 SCSI ZIP- or
S1100 Floppy Drive
2011-08-05 by nicknak110756
Hi Folks can someone please tell me if i can install a standard floppy drive into my S1100 or do i need to purchase a specific product? many thanks
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-04 by PeWe
Confirmed ! I have S-1100, S-1000 and S-1000PB. Only S-1100 has Burr Brown converters and separate ones for the single outs. The grittiest sampler of the
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-04 by Mike Schaffer
I ve got both the S1000 and S1100, and they don t sound exactly the same. The S1100 has differnt A/D converters. To my ear, the S1000 is grittier and punchier,
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-04 by Rish
If you want grit get the EPS classic, it allows for like 20 different sampling rates...The 16+ does not. You can select a low 8 bit rate and get a gritty
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-04 by Mike Wolak
Hi Mike, The EPS16+ is a very clean sounding machine, if you want grit you should look at its predecessor, the Ensoniq EPS. The EPS16+ and the ASR10 sound very
how does the s1000 compare to the ensoniq EPS 16+
2011-08-04 by mike yates
I m sure you ve all heard of the ensoniq EPS+ 16bit sampler keyboard. from 1989 was it? 1990 how does the sound compare to anyone lucky enough to own one. Is
RE: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Trouble with Zip Drive & S1000
2011-08-04 by Brian Lewis
Hi, I know I m a bit late responding to this but I was just reminded of it as just today I bought a box of 10 second hand PC formatted Zip disks. It s not true
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: source for free akai S1000 sounds or disc images
2011-08-01 by Les Lambert
Simon, do you stil;l need an Akai disc for translation? CD or zip or floppy? Which series? Les. also UK ... From: borisscrewbie
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by PeWe
I emailed to my tech who owns the Prommer up to now. He remembers 512K chips worked w/ the Prommer,- also for AKAI S-1000. I doesn´t work w/ S-1100 because it
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Switching regulator board resistor value needed
2011-07-28 by amenophis@cheapnet.it
Hi Slash and thanks for your answer; in my S1100 switching regulator a broken capacitor leaked the electrolyte on the pcb so I started a recapping and cleaning
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by Les Lambert
Glad a Prommer worked for you, maybe they fixed that problem after I got mine, I was very keen, had somebody fetch one of the first available to the UK by
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by PeWe
... That´s new to me because we did in a music shop/service center in the 80th for Sequental Circuits Prophet 5, Oberheim OB-8 and some more. Seems it depends
Re: Switching regulator board resistor value needed
2011-07-28 by slash.katana
Hello, the resistor got three red rings and one gold, so it should be 2,2 kOhm with 5% tolerance. You can t measure it properly while it is soldered, because
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by Les Lambert
The Prommer defenitely doesn t do software copies, despite the claim they made in the user and service manuals. I ve had 3 of them, software copies always fail
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by PeWe
Comes again to your Radiofish addy in a few minutes !
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by Rish
Hey can you send that again? Sorry I lost it. Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU. ... Hey can you send that again? Sorry I lost it. Rish Life
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by PeWe
Check your PM,- in my 1st mail there´s the wrong file, sorry. I´ve sent .bpm pages and a PDF I´ve made to your PM addy. Hope that helps. No schematics up to
Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Introduction
2011-07-28 by Rish
Ok...well it should be in the serv manual, did we ever get it uploaded to the files section? Rish Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU. ... Am