Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

There's someone selling an S1000 locally.  I hear great things about 
the S1100 though... any opinions?

Hi,

The S1100 has more features which were targetted towards professional 
studio's (SMPTE, XLR digital out,HD recording...) so I don't think 
they are very usefull at this moment. Besides that it included some 
cards like SCSI wand optical in/out which were optional for the 
S1000. Most S1000's will have a scsi card by now - probably not the 
digital in/out which is very practical if you want to sample from a 
cd.
I think you can go for the S1000 as long as it has a working scsi card
( try with a hard disk - not a cdrom) and enough RAM. One of the  
members of this list has a company selling these extension cards - in 
case you need them. Give the sampler a try if you can and let us know.

Regards,
Frank


 
--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
<infarmah@h...> wrote:
> There's someone selling an S1000 locally.  I hear great things 
about 
> the S1100 though... any opinions?

thanks for the response!  One thing still bothers me is all these 
reviews that claim the S1100 sounds much better than the S1000.  In 
fact, I haven't heard of a 16-bit sampler from Akai that gets more 
praise for it's sound -- save maybe the MPC3000.

Is this sound comparison something to think about (this is nearly the 
most important factor I think for these old beasties).

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "formals777" 
<frank.govaerts@p...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The S1100 has more features which were targetted towards 
professional 
> studio's (SMPTE, XLR digital out,HD recording...) so I don't think 
> they are very usefull at this moment. Besides that it included some 
> cards like SCSI wand optical in/out which were optional for the 
> S1000. Most S1000's will have a scsi card by now - probably not the 
> digital in/out which is very practical if you want to sample from a 
> cd.
> I think you can go for the S1000 as long as it has a working scsi 
card
> ( try with a hard disk - not a cdrom) and enough RAM. One of the  
> members of this list has a company selling these extension cards - 
in 
> case you need them. Give the sampler a try if you can and let us 
know.

> 
> Regards,
> Frank
> 
> 
>  
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
> <infarmah@h...> wrote:
> > There's someone selling an S1000 locally.  I hear great things 
> about 
> > the S1100 though... any opinions?

you're right. I forgot to mention it. I never did the comparison 
because I only have the S1100 but before I bought it on ebay I found 
a review which stated that the S1100 has different signal processing 
chips (probably the DSP's). Therefore the S1100 should have a 
somewhat better dynamic range and better signal noise ratio. 
Can anyone who has both samplers do a more scientific comparison? 


If you want a very clean sound, loads of effects, loads of memory, go 
for the yamaha A3000. But you will loose the huge sample library and 
the nice screen for editing. 
Consider that these days people choose a second hand sampler just 
because of its characteristic sound (like the S950 mpc60,...) an not 
because of its clean sound. 

Regards,

Frank

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
<infarmah@h...> wrote:
> thanks for the response!  One thing still bothers me is all these 
> reviews that claim the S1100 sounds much better than the S1000.  In 
> fact, I haven't heard of a 16-bit sampler from Akai that gets more 
> praise for it's sound -- save maybe the MPC3000.
> 
> Is this sound comparison something to think about (this is nearly 
the 
> most important factor I think for these old beasties).
> 
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "formals777" 
> <frank.govaerts@p...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The S1100 has more features which were targetted towards 
> professional 
> > studio's (SMPTE, XLR digital out,HD recording...) so I don't 
think 
> > they are very usefull at this moment. Besides that it included 
some 
> > cards like SCSI wand optical in/out which were optional for the 
> > S1000. Most S1000's will have a scsi card by now - probably not 
the 
> > digital in/out which is very practical if you want to sample from 
a 

> > cd.
> > I think you can go for the S1000 as long as it has a working scsi 
> card
> > ( try with a hard disk - not a cdrom) and enough RAM. One of the  
> > members of this list has a company selling these extension cards -
 
> in 
> > case you need them. Give the sampler a try if you can and let us 
> know.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Frank
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
> > <infarmah@h...> wrote:
> > > There's someone selling an S1000 locally.  I hear great things 
> > about 
> > > the S1100 though... any opinions?

"...go for the yamaha A3000..."
     -- "formals777" <frank.govaerts@...>

Wouldn't the A4000/A5000 be a better bet/value than the older A3000?

And can't all 3 Yamaha Samplers load the Akai library, or is there some problem I'm not aware of?

I think Yamaha even claims they can load E-mu samples, which is fairly unusual--seems not very many
things can load E-mu sounds.

Cheers,

Shayme