Re: Akai S1000

["L Tremblay" <ltct@concentric.net>]

I have a (drummer) friend with one. Unfortunately it's not very
useful as a real-time device. Good all-purpose sampler though...

- Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Melms <wgold@mecasw.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 12:57 PM
Subject: Akai S1000


>Has anyone had the chance to play with an Akai S1000?
>
>Marketing blurb:
>"The S1000 is a proven top-of-the-class 16 bit digital sampler. It has
>become the professional's
>choice due to its studio quality 16 bit sound, intelligent design, large
>easy to view screen
>display, and ease of operation. The S1000 is capable of recording up to 
>190
>seconds of stereo
>sampling time (at 44.1 kHz sampling rate) by adding the optional 32
Megabyte
>expansion
>RAM. It also offers some of the most advanced editing capabilities
available
>including time
>compression/ expansion, sample merge and crossfad ing, autolooping and 
>much
>more. Expan
>sion options include a digital interface and an SCSI interface for
>connecting up to hard disks, CD ROMs, or a large capacity magneto optical
>disk drive. *16 bit linear sampling, 44.1 kHz/22.05kHz sampling frequency
>20Hz 20kHz "
>
>
>
>Sounds like a mad machine, but I wonder if it's usefull real-time or
>just in the studio.. Any comments?
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