I was going to comment about that in the video. Once you've baked in the goodness of the s950 input stage I suspect you don't gain all that much sonically when moving it back from renoise to the s950 other than the ability to use the s950's multiple outputs for an external mixdown (which you could do with a multi channel sound card). Having said that, I really like the way the s950 does variable sample rate playback for pitching sounds up and down. It really shines when used as a polysynth. With dirty breaks and rave synths it's less noticeable.

My next question is what if you did the initial sampling in Renoise, kept it in Renoise and used TAL-DAC on the track. Would you lose something intangible from not using OctaMED or the hardware sampler? As in maybe you could get 99% the same audio but miss some inspiration along the way?

@@T1F1400 Renoise is great. A little bloated by comparison, but nothing lost using Renoise over Octamed. There’s possibly an argument that Amiga MIDI timing is better, but there are fancy MIDI over audio interfaces for modern computers that solve that problem for people who care. TAL-DAC might emulate the output stage of the s-950 but the sound of the input stage is where most of the colouration happens. The main characteristic of the 950’snoutput stage is the comparative absence of colouration - specifically when playing the sound at pitches higher or lower than the pitch it was recorded at. There is that RX-950 plugin, and someone else is selling impulse responses. I use RX-950 as an approximation when working in Ableton but I don’t think it’s super convincing.

@@Samplers ​​⁠I’ve used RX-950 quite a bit on iPad and I like it for adding a bit of colour. I mentioned TAL-DAC because it models both the recording / AD and the output / DA stages. For instance you can simulate changing the recording level of the sample.

@@T1F1400 I didn’t know that about tal-dac. Will have to check it out. I like tal sampler and a bunch their synths.

Soul Pride

@@Samplers ah! Same drummer different tune! ;) thanks mate!!

Cheers @@bagawire, glad you found it useful!

Cheers,@@tom-541!

That's the idea. In this instance, I'm not using the floppy emulator but a larger capacity SCSI hard drive emulator at the back of the machine.

That’s super kind of you to say @@az0r22 ! Appreciate it!

Cheers,@@groovining! Thanks for the extra info.

Thanks for sharing the info, much appreciated. If you don't mind me asking, what are you using to sequence your S1000?

@@quentinjames981 Renoise & Logic X. Both work great :)

Cheers,@@Cee_Force!

Thanks@@ghal3on!

Cheers@@Rik_bS!

Cheers@@chateautemp!

@@EvLoutonian yep. You need a gotek floppy emulator with the flashfloppy operating system for the gotek. Use floppy images in .iso format not .hfe You can skip all the stuff about changing directories if you’re using a floppy emulator. The directories are only for the 950 with SCSI

If you don't mind me asking, what are you using to sequence your S900?

@@quentinjames981 Hi! I don't really have a set system.. have Akai ASQ-10 hardware sequencer, but also MPC-2000XL, or MPC-1000, also great.

isnt he using octamed ?

@@quentinjames981 yeah, just save as s1000 or s3000 files from Awave instead of s950

Thanks, and is that version of Renoise a legacy version? Does the latest work for this use case? I am hoping to find a way to workaround the painstaking process of creating keygroups, having to manually pan the L&R of each stereo sample - all while remaining on a modern mac laptop as I don’t have space to setup a secondary computer! Thanks 🙏

@@quentinjames981 this is a fairly recent version of renoise. It’s probably not the latest. I just watched a video on the latest version - it still works the same for this this stuff. The hardest part about doing this on a mac is that you need wine (or some other windows emulation later) to run awave. I’ve not got awave running properly but it works just enough to do this loading and saving business.

​@@Samplers Thanks for clarifying about renoise. Awave seems to be running splendidly on your mac, are you using wine? I've messed with wine a few times for different reasons without much success. However unless I'm missing something, it should be possible to use renoise on my main laptop (macbook m1) to export the samples + .sfz, and then pop the SD card into a windows machine running awave, then back into the S3000 (ZuluSCSI) right? Might try make room for a small windows laptop in that case. Also - how does akaiutil handle volumes (e.g. hd 0950.iso) with multiple partitions, do you get control over which partition to affect? Cheers

@@quentinjames981 yeah I’m using wine. It’s not running splendidly but will open and save - the main things I need. You saw GroovingInG’s post here - sounds like he might have things better configured with wine. Also, as you suggest it is totally possible to jump over to a windows box for awave. The fewer steps the better though! Note all of these programs run on windows. It’s a option to do the whole process there.

Cheers, @@SynthfulDuck!

Ha!@@Thought-Forms

Cheers,@@diggerjams7373!

Thanks @@cnic7085!

Thanks @@channelite !

Cheers,@@dxtrs_mnpltr!

Thanks@@museum1401!

I could do a lil tute on octamed effects column stuff. Thanks for the suggestion @@Austin-p2w

@@RetroJay1974 totally. Just save as Akai S 1000/3000 instead of s950 in Awave

Totally. Just save as Akai s1000 instead of s950 in Awave.

@@Samplers nice one thanks for the reply is this only for Renoise?

@@djtekkazlocked6486 you don’t need renoise - awave has some similar built in features for editing programs. I just like renoise’s features and UI.

Thanks@@dehendriklechatwillekens !

Have you tried Llamamusic, some great W30 resources there.

If you don't mind me asking, what are you using to sequence your S1100?

thanks @@huhummmmmmm !

@@lewis9898 Michael Bolton watches my channel!

Thanks @NM-ir6wd !

Thanks @enneff! I travelled a couple of hundred kilometres by train to pick up that monitor. A ridiculous journey.

@@Samplers absolutely worth it!!

Bruv

@@playacarate3243 it’s Cubase v2

FL studio can do all of this. This is just for amusement and nostalgia.

The s-760 doesn’t have a sound that is in anyway important to this kind of music. There’s a better argument that some of the early Akais have some magic but even that is FAR from essential

@@Samplers I mean i am aware of that, I was more on about being able to witness the birth of Jungle and genres alike. I've been chasing the same sound as yours on both my KZbin and my soundcloud pages. And i guess i am a Nerdy person so i just like to play around with old Computers. I do wiggle around in C64 emulators anyway. So- yeah,

@@Samplers I guess what i am after with wishing to live in these eras is not to make music this way or me thinking its the Equipment that gave the taste (which with akai it kinda gives a taste i guess.) but instead me wanting to experience the time period. More of a sentimental reason. Hope it makes sense even tho im supposed to be a Native english speaker according to IELTS my english goofs up sometimes.

@@Logrythmic.C47 I reckon the main thing is to “find the others” - the other people who like cool stuff and who have interesting ideas, and to “make stuff happen”. The best thing from the 90’s in my opinion was participatory and collective nature of the party scene. I don’t see many parties happening in my area that are in illegal warehouses but plenty going on in warehouse spaces, under bridges and in the cracks. Someone has a sound system, someone has some records or a USB, someone has a generator, some lights etc.

7 virtual SCSI drives on an SD card is great too. Its a golden age of hardware hacking for sure.