Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hello all,

I am a new subscriber to the list. My name is Tristan, and I live in
Massachusetts USA. I am a proud owner of the o so affordable and
versatile S1000. Sporting a SCSI port, my sampler has access to an
external CD-ROM and Zip drive. I recently just replaced the backlight
too, so my sampler is decked out and ready to rock. I am using the
beast for producing electronic music of the trippy psychedelic/ambient
to noise/glitch and hardcore genres.

I come with a few questions, and I also am prepared to answer a few
questions. I have a good deal of experience with computers and
electronics; I deal with them professionally.

ohm

Morgan,

Welcom to the list! Thanks for your polite intro. 
Just launch your questions. We'll try to find an answer.

Regards,

Frank

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "morganohm0"
<morganohm0@y...> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am a new subscriber to the list. My name is Tristan, and I live in
> Massachusetts USA. I am a proud owner of the o so affordable and
> versatile S1000. Sporting a SCSI port, my sampler has access to an
> external CD-ROM and Zip drive. I recently just replaced the backlight
> too, so my sampler is decked out and ready to rock. I am using the
> beast for producing electronic music of the trippy psychedelic/ambient
> to noise/glitch and hardcore genres.
> 
> I come with a few questions, and I also am prepared to answer a few
> questions. I have a good deal of experience with computers and
> electronics; I deal with them professionally.
> 
> ohm

Hi,

I just recently got an akai s1100 for free! and I am trying to get it up to specs, I know nothing of these machines, but i noticed that the backlight isn't working and that has been ordered, How do I use one of these? I would like to modify the floppy drive and convert it to a cf, anyone got a parts list or a tutorial or something?

thanks

sikkboy

for the chap who was chasing a memory 8 meg upgrade


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Akai-8-MB-Memory-Expansion-for-S1000-S1000kb-S1100-/251447527473
congrats on getting ya sampler,does this group have uploaded instruction manual for such a machine?
make sure you have it set in omni midi mode to ensure it plays lots of different sounds ;-)




On Saturday, 28 December 2013, 0:39, sikkboy17 <jsewellro@...> wrote:
 
  
Hi,

I just recently got an akai s1100 for free! and I am trying to get it up to specs, I know nothing of these machines, but i noticed that the backlight isn't working and that has been ordered, How do I use one of these? I would like to modify the floppy drive and convert it to a cf, anyone got a parts list or a tutorial or something?

thanks

sikkboy

Hi,

Yeah, I missed that board onEbay, and it sold cheap. I'll keep looking. Thanks anyway for the link.

Regards

hiya,you can have ebay do a custom search for you,it automatically looks so you dont have to !





On Monday, 17 February 2014, 10:27, "loricruzer@yahoo.com" <loricruzer@...> wrote:
 
  
Hi,
Yeah, I missed that board onEbay, and it sold cheap. I'll keep looking. Thanks anyway for the link.

Regards

Hi,

I made that youtube AKAI S1100 SMDI sample transfer youtube video.

I try hard to get SMDI working on my Win 8 64 bit system but no luck so far.

I use a RATOC USB-SCSI cable that have the WIN7/8 64 bit drivers. Installation of this SCSI cable went fine.

Win 8 even reconize a sampler when attached to the cable in device manager, but I can not get the SMDI software Recycle, Wavelab etc.) to recognize the sampler. This has somethin to do with the ASPI drivers.

I tried the Adaptec 32 bit ASPI drivers, Wavelab ASPI, Frogaspi, aspi, RATOC aspi, but no luck so far

If I manage to get this working I lett you all know.

br

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Akai-8-MB-Memory-Expansion-for-S1000-S1000kb-S1100/231166265066?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222006%26algo%3DSIC.FITP%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107083358%26meid%3D5117632595608315619%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D20140107083358%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D251448462851




On Sunday, 23 February 2014, 23:43, "xxxdna@..." <xxxdna@...> wrote:
 
  
wow - thanks for that video. i found it very helpful. yes ASPI a likely culprit.. not sure if there is a way around that in 64bit os.. Personally I maintain a small xp machine on (micro-itx with an adaptec scsi card) so i can communicate with my old scsi devices. i just vnc into the box to control it so i don't need a monitor/peripherals. it works well and doesn't take up any real space so i'm happy wit that as a solution

HI Mark, would be interested in a trade for your dead s1000?

On 2/26/14, emulander <emulander@...> wrote:
> hi everybody!
> if someone needs parts, one of my s1000s has died i am selling the cards and
> memory
> send me a mail
> mark

Hello and nice score on the akai.  My backlight is dead too. Did you
get the replacent or the generic one?

On 2/14/14, melvin turner <dizardsdreams@...> wrote:
> for the chap who was chasing a memory 8 meg upgrade
>
>
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Akai-8-MB-Memory-Expansion-for-S1000-S1000kb-S1100-/251447527473
> congrats on getting ya sampler,does this group have uploaded instruction
> manual for such a machine?
> make sure you have it set in omni midi mode to ensure it plays lots of
> different sounds ;-)
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 28 December 2013, 0:39, sikkboy17 <jsewellro@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just recently got an akai s1100 for free! and I am trying to get it up to
> specs, I know nothing of these machines, but i noticed that the backlight
> isn't working and that has been ordered, How do I use one of these? I would
> like to modify the floppy drive and convert it to a cf, anyone got a parts
> list or a tutorial or something?
>
> thanks
>
> sikkboy
>
>
>