Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

I've just picked up an S1100 and for the most part it seems to work ok but I've noticed two things. One the outputs are a bit low even with the main volume turned up high I still have to apply a fair bit of gain on my pre-amp and DAW.

More worrying is the way it freezes when I go to the FX edit page and select the triple tap ECHO delay. It just seems to hang the whole system requiring a power cycle. This happens either with OS 4.3 loaded off floppy or 1.39 off ROM. Going to try reseating the effects board but I was wondering if anyone else ever had this problem?

the s1000 service manual has extensive instructions for calibrating
the output levels, haven't read the s1100 service manual but I imagine
it has them too.
you need an osciliscope and a screwdriver.

these samplers are getting quite old. re-calibration probably wouldn't hurt.

On 13/10/2015, richie.beach@... [akaiS1000S1100Samplers]
<akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>  It sounds to me that you have 2 separate problems there. i doubt that they
> are related.
>
>
>  re: the outputs - Have you tried using the additional outputs, rather than
> the main outs? try changing the outputs in the 'mix' page.
>
>
>  The second problem sounds like a memory issue to me, how many RAM cards are
> in there (how much memory have you got in the 1100) ? If you have more than
> one card, try removing them all and testing one at a time - obviously not
> Hot Swapping!
>
>
>  I doubt reseating the FX card will help as it seems to be a problem on one
> preset only - but deffo worth a try too.
>
>
>  Good luck :)
>
>
>  Richard
>
>
>


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