How to use the Akai S900 / S950 Sampler Complete Tutorial

[@tonelab]

'Download & Play' kits for SP1200/MPC now from TONELAB! store.tonelab.au

[@damjanwpls]

Where was this when I was reading 1986 manual printouts for 5 months. :) Great job man!

[@tonelab]

ah haha! I know, not a minute too late huh 😆 there was (as @threatnique put it) the 'donkey kong lab' original s900 video from the 80s.. did you get the VHS tape with your sampler?! here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6e8oamlpMxspaM it's pretty funny -ps. thanks for the feedback 🙏🏻👍🏻

[@MLochMusic]

Haha so true. I too shared your battle with the manual that spelled "just" and "Gust" haha. We were doomed from the start.

[@chadpez75]

this is so cool, but like he said., for me, where the hell was this in 98

[@quaad_heavy_sounds]

The most cohesive and helpful video I've ever watched on here, thank you SO much for making this!!

[@contaminated87]

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

[@tonelab]

🙏🏻🫡

[@peteharman1061]

thanks for that . I have an S900 which I've owned for a long time .So long unused . I needed to watch to remind myself how to use it . I'm checking it over to sell , so there's one up for grabs if anyone's interested. After watching your tutorial I had almost decided not to sell but i think a new owner would make better use of it than I .

[@tonelab]

You're welcome 🙏🏻 ..although, if you're truly sure you want to sell your S900 - I would try Reverb.com 👍🏼

[@mccarry30]

Such a comprehensive video, well recorded and arranged. Thanks very much for sharing this with us all.

[@tonelab]

You're welcome.. and thanks for the generous review 🙏🏻

[@BaddBadger]

I have had an S950 knocking around for ages. At last i'm looking to fix it up, and i'm wanting to use it (alongside my more modern hardware) at least a little bit. I have been looking around for some plain spoken ''how to'' video because i just have no patience for manuals. So, long story short, THANK YOU for this upload. It really means a lot that i can bookmark this and dip in now and then, actually learning at long last. Thanks again!

[@tonelab]

Thanks very much 🙏🏻 well, most of what you need is there for a 950, with the absence of the Time-Stretching of course.. but, there's another nifty trick you might be interested in, to control the Filter via MIDI.. on my Quick-Tips channel 👍🏼 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmjJeIOcbLiiaZo

[@peterpiper0815]

Very good and detailed video !! One correction (at least for the 950 but I think its the same for the 900): The output L and R are not monophonic but 4x polyphonic. Output L represents the outputs 1-4 and output R represents the outputs 5-8. This can be handy to play chords. For example you created a Program with drums, bass and a piano. You can then route the kickdrum to out1, snare to out2, hihat to out3, bass to out4 and the piano to outR so you're able to play pianochords without interupting out 1-4.

[@tonelab]

Cheers! and thanks very much for sharing that .. I might have to double check, you might be right about the 950... I just looked up the S950 manual and it does indeed mention 'Pseudo Stereo Output' on page 6! 🤔 but, I was messing around with it just before the demo (because I avoid the stereo output most of the time) and it sure seemed like it was cutting off notes.. on further checking the S900 manual, the strange thing is.. it doesn't mention Stereo or any mention of polyphony there in Chapter 17 (where the outputs are detailed).. so that's a very curious point you've raised there 🙏🏻 🤔🕵🏻‍♂️

[@ASH-ou4cg]

@@tonelab Hi guys, curious now. With the above said, let us say I recorded a drum loop into the S900 and wanted to record its output, back into my DAW. What would I use? If the drum loop was recorded in mono, would I connect my cable to the MIX jack, L and R jack, or one of the single 1-8 outputs and into my mixer/interface?

[@Dougie-]

Looks like it can be worked pretty fast when muscle memory develops. I've been wanting a 950 for a while. Will get one eventually. Nice to get to know it beforehand 👍 Tnx!

[@tonelab]

That's right.. as soon as you know where your 'go-tos' are.. you hit them over and over again.. and you can move really quickly. I can't get enough of the filter, if you get your 950, try this clip.. which can offer a little more control over your filter 👌🏼kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmjJeIOcbLiiaZo

[@MLochMusic]

Thanks for this. The expertise you happily share for the good of the community is exemplary. I applaud you. Just want you to know this gets much use by myself and I use it for when my brain locks up and I can't remember how to do a specific thing. Thank you for your time and patients and persistence and for keeping the Akai spirit alive. This is greatly appreciated. Keep on keeping on!

[@tonelab]

Thank you very much 🙏🏻 🙇🏻‍♂️

[@VultureCulture]

This video is a lifesaver! Thank you very much!

[@tonelab]

You're welcome 🙏🏻 ..you might like this 'hack' to control the S900 / S950 Filter too 🫡 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmjJeIOcbLiiaZo

[@littl3jackal]

Amazing content! I was looking for S3000XL tutorials but for some reason I was fascinated enough by the 900/950 to watch over an hour of walk-through for a sampler I don't own XD -- one day :)

[@tonelab]

Thanks very much! 👍🏻👍🏻 Funny you mentioned that, I just borrowed my mates S3000XL last week.. that was the first sampler I ever owned.. so, I was going to do a tutorial on that soon too.. cheers for watching though 🤓🙏🏻

[@littl3jackal]

@@tonelab Too cool! Excited to watch whatever you end up doing with it! Good luck :)

[@tonelab]

@@littl3jackal Thank you 😋

[@mb2776]

Hey, I had an S3000xl before I got my s950. Still own both machines, both are great units!

[@MrDukanueba]

​@@tonelabdid you ever get around to doing a tutorial for the S3000xl yet?

[@josedicaro]

Thank you so much for this video manual ❤ Waiting for the S1000/1100 one

[@tonelab]

You're welcome, cheers for the feedback🙏🏻

[@thurstonmurru]

@@tonelab id love a S1000 video as well!!

[@MLochMusic]

Sorry and I don't mean to be a dick but its like nothing is ever enough in the interent age Thanks for the 20 hours or more you took putting this together demonstraighting your life long second nature S9*0 skills and giving the world it totally for free......................... but I now want something else --- for free also Anyhow Tonelab, thank for this amazing video. That in itself should be enough but I want you to come over to my studio and set everything up and make music for me. :)

[@TexHex82]

Thanks for this! I wish there was a similar quality tutorial for S1000 but there simply aren’t any on the internet(((

[@jamesbell5219]

Nice use of the Legowelt Mono/poly Sample pack.

[@tonelab]

😉 well spotted! 10 points 👏🏻

[@muco007]

This kicked the dust off my old nogger....Thank You!

[@tonelab]

Nice! ..glad it could help, cheers!

[@Iofflight]

I wish someone would do this for the 1000/1100. This is great thanks!

[@tonelab]

You're welcome 🙏🏻

[@slushedpuppy8044]

Same. I have an S1000 and could really use one of these videos for it.

[@zts-1111]

"Voice Out" connects to an Akai polysynth (AX60, AX73, VX90, VX600) to mix the polyphonic sampler voices into the synth voices, pre-filter.

[@tonelab]

ahh right!.. thanks for sharing that 🙏🏼

[@Hauteclaire16]

I am very curious about this feature. I have an AX73 but don't have a cable. Do you happen to know the name of the connector?

[@tonelab]

Y'know, it's the darnedest thing.. it looks like a PS/2 ! .. but I can't say with certainty, I've never had anything I could plug into it.. a quick google mentions it as a 13-pin cable.. so it won't be a PS/2 🤔🙏🏻

[@zts-1111]

​@@Hauteclaire16 the AKAI branded version of the cable is rare, the 13 pin Roland guitar synth cables are the same and are easy to get on ebay. There are also Kenwood CD changers that use a compatible cable apparently. I've done it with the s612 plus AX60 and AX73, and s950 plus AX60. It's definitely cool, you basically get a second oscillator for the synth that's a 12 bit sample. Officially you can't use the combo with an external sequencer because of the way it uses the MIDI channels unfortunately (at least the AX60 arpeggiator can be clocked with a trigger). The VX90 allows this since it doesn't have a keyboard (and internally translates the MIDI channels it sends to the sampler), so maybe the 73 does too.

[@paulcarboneNY]

@@tonelab It's a 13 pin DIN connector; the same one for the video connector on the Atari ST. It's an available connector. Would be an annoying but not impossible cable to make.

[@lpn369]

I just got my Akai s900 Reverb now I'm debating on which MPC to do midi with. Either MPC 2kXL, 5K OR LIVE.. I HAVE ZIP DRIVE IN THE 2KXL really want a card reader installed, I REALLY DON'T WANNA GO WITH TOUCH SCREEN.. ILL TRY THE🤫5K FOR NOW 🤫

[@tonelab]

The 2000XL is a great dancing partner for the 900, I've got a deep-dive on that too if you need it (below), otherwise I'm sure the 5000 is just as capable 👍🏼 kzbin.info/www/bejne/npWznWpmd7ydpsk

[@lpn369]

👍💯

[@paulgaudion8198]

Great video, thanks so much. I have an Atari 1040ste and an akai S900 with rs232, so do I need an r232 cable on both ends to transfer sounds, or an rs232 to midi cable? Cheers, Paul

[@tonelab]

Hey Paul, cheers for that 🙏🏻 well, the 520ST has a modem port which is what the RS232C connects to.. but, I'm not certain the 1040STE has that?! ..I imagine it would be labelled and function the same.. so if you have a 'modem' port/connector, apparently you just need the compatible fitting and set the Baud rate, etc.. to reflect the same values. Here's a page from the 520ST manual with the modem config page settings 👍🏻 www.manualslib.com/manual/1253043/Atari-520st.html?page=46

[@paulgaudion8198]

@@tonelab hit me up if you want to know more about how I got it going, Paul

[@slushedpuppy8044]

Maybe I missed it but how to you assign individual samples to the rear output channels?

[@tonelab]

Output Voices - it's indexed.. but sometimes the terminology is a little different with each unit 👍🏼 try this.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXfHdXiJlNKVr5Y

[@TexHex82]

Step up in S1000 display and programming is immense from S950 that was released the same year 1988… I wonder why they released both at the same time

[@threatnique]

Appreciate this 100 ! ✌🏽 been waiting on someone to do one like this ! Be watching this tonight ! ✌🏽

[@tonelab]

Thanks! 😋 Yeah, better get the popcorn out then.. there's a bit there 😉 but I hope it sheds new light on it for you 👍🏻

[@threatnique]

@@tonelab will shed all the light , I haven’t really used it much , the work flow seems really long .. but I want to really become great at it !

[@tonelab]

@@threatnique yep, know exactly what you mean.. it was a long learning curve for me too.. but, the original manual didn't paint the concept that well.. so the thing that taught me the most was the old original VHS rip (link below) 😂 ..but then, when I got V4.. it was totally different and the manual for those were not much help either.. but I wish I could've got 'The guy in the VHS'' back for my S900 video 😆 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6e8oamlpMxspaM

[@threatnique]

@@tonelab haha yeah that guy is a gem ! Up in the donkey Kong lab ! I watched that when I got the s900 last year, need to spend more time with it, I just noticed it’s making a weird noise on record so I’m trouble shooting that .. ✌🏽 thanks for the in-depth video though man ! Appreciate it !

[@tonelab]

@@threatnique 'Donkey Kong Lab' 😂 🤣 yeah, I wonder how the styling correlated with palm trees and hawaiian shirts with a sampler tute, because there's a similarly styled ASR-10 video too 😄🌴🥥 link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn_Yi36kqaadeLs ps. did you try a RAM test on your unit?

[@Wil_Dsense]

nice man,,,, going thru this step by step in the coming days/weeks! I find it quite relaxing as well as informative. I'm still trying to figure out how to save sounds and programs etc, using the Floppy Emulator and floppy images etc. I just got an S900 so I'm a total noob on it, learning at a very slow pace at the moment for various reasons however this is helpful thanks alot for making this video, cheers.

[@tonelab]

Cheers for the feedback 🙏🏻 Floppy Emulators are fairly straight forward, just make sure you 'select' (mount) an image before attempting any Disk function on the 900 👍🏼

[@ZenMountain]

I would like to have, for example 4 different programs, each with full keyboard range, each one triggered by a different MIDI channel. Is this not possible? In other words, if I want to use more than 1 program at the same time, I need to assign each of those programs to a different key group, and they will all use the same MIDI channel? What if I want to use the full keyboard range on each one of the programs? Apologies if I misunderstood. Thanks!

[@tonelab]

Well, simply put.. it's not Multi-Timbral.. in other words.. you can only select 1 Program at a time. So you need to achieve all the 'splits' and channel reception within Keygroups 👍🏼

[@ZenMountain]

@@tonelab Ok, thank you 🙏

[@Hauteclaire16]

Incredible work! Thank you so much!

[@tonelab]

Thanks very much for the generous feedback ☺️

[@Isolate_101]

Great tutorial much need it thanks a lot !!!

[@tonelab]

You're welcome and thanks for your generous feedback 🙏🏻

[@dormaettu302]

Hi I'm looking for finding a way to : export a full loop (1min) that I made from a vst and then moving it to an old vintage sampler and the put it back to my daw (so I can add warm to vst's sample). Is there a way to do this ? thanks !

[@tonelab]

Specifically this Sampler?! ..you'd have to Record / Sample it in, but the S900 doesn't have a lot of memory.. so you'd have to bring the Sample Rate down to a mere 3kHz to fit in 60 seconds 👍🏻

[@dormaettu302]

@@tonelab Okay thanks. To sample my vst loop I just have to connect the outs from my audio interface to the in of the sampler ? Are there old vintage samplers that can record 1min 12bits ?

[@tonelab]

The S900 can achieve 63 seconds at it's lowest Sample Rate... of a mere 3kHz.. which isn't very much.. so, I think you might be better off with this plugin.. www.inphonik.com/products/rx950-classic-ad-da-converter/ 👍🏻 so you could try that.. or are you after real tactile hardware?!

[@d-waxthajunglist4049]

Can you please make a video to explain in full the s1000?

[@tonelab]

I'd like to.. but I don't have a 1000 🙏🏻

[@d-waxthajunglist4049]

@@tonelab no problem, hope you'll get the chance one day, thanks for answering back. Keep the good work!

[@omenjh]

Wicked tutorial, thanks so much ;)

[@tonelab]

Cheers! ..hope it helped 🙏🏻

[@StevenClements]

Fantastic video! Bravo! Subscribed.

[@tonelab]

Thanks for the generous feedback 🙏🏼 ..I hope it helped 👍🏻

[@Wizkidmelburn]

So, to confirm..my start up should be ‘1,2’ not ‘1.2’ ? In re: os 4.

[@palpatony2082]

Awesome. Great video! Instantly subscribed!

[@tonelab]

Thanks Pal! 😃

[@mfbeatz]

Hi! I need some advice, i have an asr 10 and i look for an dirtier 12bit sampler.. s950 vs s900 vs emax rack ? Any advice ? Peace ✌️

[@tonelab]

The dirtiest is arguably the SP1200.. but, it also comes with a 2.5 second sample-length limitation.. the S900, or S950, has variable Sample rate, which means you can change your Sample rate to something quite low, and that.. gives you 'dirtier' Samples. The MPC2000XL can do this too, but it's natively 16bit. To get a rough idea on how some of them sound.. watch some of these 'Sampler comparisons' with the SP1200🙏🏻 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jabRmqyGi89kebs

[@mfbeatz]

@@tonelab thanks a lot bro, gonna check that

[@piynubbunyip]

Thanks very much for this. Incredibly useful.

[@tonelab]

Cheers for chiming in.. glad it helped you out! 🙏🏻

[@TheStoneTapeSimulacrum]

This is great - thanks

[@grafandsynthsagainstevilrobots]

my fav sampler :)

[@ZenMountain]

Excellent, thanks!!!

[@amonster8mymother]

Do the S900 and S1000 sound the same? I thi k they do but I have a friend who disagrees

[@tonelab]

I'd have to agree with him.. essentially they're very different engines.. the S900 is 12bit 40kHz while the S1000, which came out 2 years later.. is 16bit 44.1kHz..they're not 'so different', but there is a little more 'detail' on the S1000 for my ears.. however, I think I prefer the filter from the S900 👍🏼

[@amonster8mymother]

@@tonelab ok I see. But the 900 must be more difficult to work with being solely diskette based and the 1000 having scsi.

[@tonelab]

@@amonster8mymother Well, depends really.. these kinds of limitations were overcome, by many.. for years. However, regardless of that, people still made hit records on them. The decision, for me is prioritized by 'sound'. If 'ease of operation' is the priority in your workflow, then SCSI is beaten hands down by the modern MPCs that have built-in HDs. I came from the 5 1/4" or 3.5" diskette era.. I had shoe boxes full of disks.. but it never worried me, like 'crate digging' records .. i used to like flicking thru disks.. I could do it much quicker than jumping in and out of folders, and certain disks were coloured.. so i automatically knew what was on my yellow disk.. and if I saw that on the other side of my room.. I still didn't need to open it and check the contents.. I just knew immediately what was on it... similar to my record collection, I know the spines of my favourite records.. so I don't even need to see the title, I just know that's it - immediately.. but that's me 🤷🏻‍♂🙏🏻

[@amonster8mymother]

@@tonelab well actually now I know the 900 is 12 bit and the 1000 is 16 bit. So depends on if I want a 12 bit sampler in my rack or not.

[@tonelab]

@@amonster8mymother Yes, and just to provide an additional tip which may be of use to you.. I kinda now look at these old samplers as 'tools' to colour my sounds.. so, it's not even so much about workflow any more.. I tend to now use these old samplers in a similar fashion to how engineers would use 'pre-amps' on microphones.. because, with workflow limitations aside.. there's one thing that can't be said they're bad at.. and that is 'warmth', the filters sound amazing.. so if you just 'put content thru them' and record what comes out the other end.. into a DAW or another hi-res modern sampler.. they are lovely sounding filters.. and despite how close the plugins-imitations 'say they get', at the end of the day they are trying to replicate the rich sound that comes out of the audio output. To put it into other terms.. I put various sounds and synth textures 'thru' the S900 to 'warm' them up.. and 'bake' them a little bit.. and despite their age.. I'm never bored of it's sound.. it always 'enriches' 99% of what I put thru it.. even thin sounding MP3s can come out of an S900 with a nicer tone than what went in 🙏🏻

[@joenuts5609]

i want to get into sampling but this all sounds like gibberish to me. Any advice or tips for beginners trying to get into sampling? How did many of you figure out what these settings do and how they are useful? anything is appreciated. I respect the amount of patience you all have lol.

[@tonelab]

Like 'learning to drive', you gotta put in hours behind the wheel.. Start by figuring out what music you'd like to make.. look up the equipment some artists used to make Songs of that genre.. look up those devices and watch tutorials on them. Go digging for records / samples and you'll be making anything you want 🙏🏻

[@Hauteclaire16]

It's worth mentioning that bandwidth of a signal and sample rate are two different measurements, so S950 doesn't sample at a max rate of 19200 kHz. The value of bandwidth needs to be doubled to get the sample rate, that's why S950 can be a (relatively) hi-fi instrument.

[@tonelab]

Thank you for providing this additional information.. I actually don't have an S950, so I had to rely on many different sources to correlate that figure 🤔 if 19,200 is incorrect.. what is the maximum sampling frequency?! do you have an S950?! 👍🏼

[@Hauteclaire16]

@@tonelab yes I do! I think the max sample rate is 40 kHz for S900 and 48 kHz for S950. So, on sample recording menu, for S950, 19200 kHz of bandwidth equals to 48 kHz of sample rate. And for S900 whatever the max value for bandwidth equals to 40 kHz of sample rate. Which makes my previous statement wrong. It's not double the bandwidth value. But I cannot remember the formula from comm theory at all! Totally embarassed myself there! Doubling the bandwidth usually somewhat makes sense to me :D

[@tonelab]

hah..yes, I tried to articulate it correctly, despite not having one myself.. the very presence of the term 'bandwidth' (being bit of an old-school term opposed to what seems to be more commonly referred to as 'sample frequency' these days) can make things a little confusing, especially with how the term 'Bandwidth' is used these days.. more generally for 'streaming'. But, as you said, you more or less halve the sample rate to reach the Bandwidth / Sample Frequency value (based on the Nyquist Theorem). At first glance.. it does give off a rather impressive impression of such a high sample rate... but when you get into the 'bandwidth' page, onboard the S900.. it literally goes up to a maximum of 16kHz.. so, I researched the S950.. and every forum-post I could find also mentioned 48kHz.. but that can't be right.. not for a 1986 sampler, I'm sure the technology existed .. but I doubt it would be onboard the S950. So, I think I ended up diving into the manual and pulled that figure from there... anyway 'phew' ☺️ I'm glad I don't have to re-record the tute 🙊 👍🏼

[@muco007]

@@Hauteclaire16 Multiply by 2.5

[@Hauteclaire16]

@@tonelab yes, Nyquist theorem it is. Honestly, bandwidth always made a lot more sense to me than sample rate in terms of signals. Also, the value for the Nyquist rate should be at least (!!!) twice the bandwidth. So it can be anything greater than 2B. Don't forget that the sampler itself is 12bit, not 16 so it's very possible for it to have such sample rates. Also, remember the board by Oberheim for S900/950? It was possible to sample even at 16bit at the time but not with such high signal bandwidth.

[@seyfleero6660]

What a Great Video!!! Thx a lot

[@tonelab]

Thanks for that 🙏🏻

[@mr.irrelevant3588]

i have had a s900 sitting in my basement for years. Time to fire it up and learn how to use it.

[@tonelab]

you got the V2 / V4 OS?? .. get stuck into that Envelope filter and the Velo-Sens Filter 👌🏻 🤓

[@EvLoutonian]

Do you know if it's possible to have the stock floppy drive connected, plus also add a Gotek drive on the same chain? Or maybe have both connected, but some kind of switch for selecting which drive you wish to address?

[@tonelab]

Hmm... it could be done with a bespoke job.. but it would have wires all over the place.. and, I presume.. you'd have to power up, after the 'cold swap'. But, are you wanting to do this because you have loads of sounds on 3.5" disk.. or something like that?! 🤔

[@EvLoutonian]

@@tonelab mm, good question ... it's actually because I would like to retain the ability to make samples on my S900, but then load those files from floppy into my S2000 (which is able to translate the file from S900 to S2000 format). I was told it's not possible to do this on the USB floppy emulator - but maybe you or somebody else could verify that Akai S2000 can also read S900 files from USB?

[@tonelab]

@@EvLoutonian ahhh right, I see... in that case, you could probably presume.. the cost of that mod and parts might get close to the cost of a 2nd Gotek for your S2000..perhaps 🤔

[@EvLoutonian]

@@tonelab hehe yes, tempting to give it a go.. just not sure the S2000 Gotek will read the S900 Gotek files .. think they would?

[@tonelab]

@@EvLoutonian Well, I'd assume so.. if the image type of a 900 disk can be interpreted by the 2000.. then I can't see why the 'virtual images' of a Gotek would be any different.. and even if it is, there's always the HxC conversion software.. but, if you do consider going down that road.. perhaps get the Gotek for the S2000 first.. and then grab some S900 images off the web and try those in your S2000 Gotek first.. because if they do 'read'.. then you're probably better off in the long run going all 'Gotek' anyway 🤓

[@djelliptikal8033]

Thank you for this.

[@tonelab]

No problem 🙏🏻

[@rockbwoyindabuilding5397]

where do you save s950 sequences? on the sequencer or in the s950

[@tonelab]

The S series Samplers from Akai were not loaded with Sequencers... some of the later models in the series had the ability to 'Play' MIDI files.. but, the older ones like the S950 & the S900 don't have the ability to record MIDI.. you have to 'trigger' them from external sequencers 👍🏻

[@rockbwoyindabuilding5397]

@@tonelab noted so i have to save the sequences on the 60 on 1 disk then

[@tonelab]

@@rockbwoyindabuilding5397 Yep, and you wanna try to keep their disks together or just write the same name on both disks.. otherwise in a couple of years.. you might end up with a drawer full of disks with random names.. without much correlation.. so, just a 'good house keeping' tip 👍🏻🙏🏻

[@bro5662]

Can you set the triggering to one shot mono like the mpc2000 has? And does it have a decay setting where I can change the velocity attack start and level?

[@tonelab]

Yep, check the index in the description 👍🏼

[@bro5662]

@@tonelab it doesn't explain what im asking about the mono triggering and I don't know where to find the decay velocity start and level

[@tonelab]

'mono' will only occur if you use an individual output 👍🏻

[@tonelab]

There is no 'Decay' velocity, as such.. but there is 'attack', 'loudness' & 'release' .. @50:00 via the Velocity page.. what you find here, is all you have in terms of Amplitude.. there's also filter control, which I did another clip for, which is a hack to control it via MIDI kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmjJeIOcbLiiaZo

[@bro5662]

@@tonelab thank you so much

[@mohill1003]

Can you do all that on a mpc 1?

[@tonelab]

The MPC-One has a built-in Sequencer.. among other things.. so you can do a lot more with an MPC-One.. however, they're quite different 'sonically'👍🏼

[@JurassicTrance]

The Roland S samplers seem far easier to work with

[@DroppedandSkrewed]

Don't forget the s700 ❤️

[@tonelab]

The S700 looks like a great unit too! ... but, I'm not sure I could presume that this tutorial would be suitable for 700 owners, I haven't used a 700 before 🙏🏻

[@plateoshrimp9685]

@@tonelab It's mostly not applicable to the s700 at all. The s700 and x7000 are much more limited, though still very cool. It is interesting to see what they carried over from the s700/x7000 (design language, interface style), to the s900 as well as what they carried over from the s900 into the future.

[@tonelab]

@@plateoshrimp9685..from that period when samplers were learning to walk 'upright' 🦍 ..thanks for sharing, awesome 🙏🏻

[@deetgeluid]

I need my backlight fixed!😢

[@tonelab]

Try JazzCat in the UK m.facebook.com/people/Jazzcats-Akai-parts-repairs/100063537943511/

[@Wizkidmelburn]

Eesh, just did that ram test and it came up as bad icl1....please 12 bit guru..translation? Thx mate..

[@tonelab]

Well, before I give you any bad news.. are you using an OS disk to boot up? 🤔

[@Wizkidmelburn]

@@tonelab sorry...s950..not an s900 and no, I turn it on and everything works. I sampled a long synthy sound to hear for pops and it's fine...

[@tonelab]

@@Wizkidmelburn ahh okay.. well 2 things.. if you're not hearing any audible 'crackling' you can just keep riding the bike.. because it might be something like a crack in a RAM chip on the Lower-board (lower deck).. but it may be a part of the memory you don't 'run into' often.. but unless you're good with a soldering iron (and I'm not!) It might have to go the Vet.. here's a guy who fixed a similar issue on a 900 kzbin.info/www/bejne/goebaJmbhdicZ5Y 👍🏻

[@Wizkidmelburn]

@@tonelab cool, before I bought I checked the sample function and heard nothing before and after...but forgot the button test. I will keep going because outside of what it said...it's functional, although the menus are not the same as the s900 in some places..

[@Wizkidmelburn]

@@tonelab and thanks heaps!

[@Freakthesorceress]

48:04 42:57 26:20

[@ASH-ou4cg]

1:10:23 LOL

[@youtendtoforget2986]

The voice out connector is used to plug the S900 to an akai vx90 synth kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3fJfX5qfLOEpJo and (I think) any analog synth from akai from that era.

[@tonelab]

Yeah, that's awesome and good to know, thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@trakliteproductions]

Peace. SCSI wasn't available for the S900

[@tonelab]

That's right.. only available for the S950 (IB109) 🙏🏼

[@tylerfetherston3208]

Does everyone here know there is a computer program called Ableton with unlimited memory?

[@tee-botheewok716]

I so want to be able to buy a fresh new one. Never owned one btw.

[@frankiewelfare8087]

just ordered an S900 the other day for around 660 bucks

[@tee-botheewok716]

@@frankiewelfare8087 Where? But F these resellers asking top price for 35yo machines.