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AKAI S01 sampler - OH YES!
« on: August 28, 2008, 09:14:45 PM »
Ok, i admit that i've been holding this one back until i could get hold of a few more S01's as i suspect the price is about to go up a bit, but this ones been in my studio for about 4 months now and its time to sell it on and build a better one so i thought i'd post some stuff about it on here first.

BEHOLD! The Akai S01 sample grinder!  ;)

 

 

 

 

I've got some demos done and i'll upload them asap.

Now that one was a major effort. Lets just say you haven't lived until you've tried to cut a rectangular hole for a DB25 socket in an Akai front panel.  ;)

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Re: AKAI S01 sampler - OH YES!
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2008, 09:44:58 PM »
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Re: AKAI S01 sampler - OH YES!
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2008, 10:37:42 PM »
wicked !
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Re: AKAI S01 sampler - OH YES!
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2008, 11:53:15 PM »
Sounds pretty fucking good.
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Re: AKAI S01 sampler - OH YES!
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2008, 09:57:15 PM »
Oh my god! You actually are a genius Paul.
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Re: AKAI S01 sampler - OH YES!
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2008, 08:35:11 PM »
Thanks people.

I'm not sure if any other 'proper' samplers like an S3000XL would be bendable due to the type of memory they use, but i wouldn't mind having a go at an Emax or a Mirage, if you want to call a Mirage a proper sampler. The good thing about the S01 is that the memory is a 1MB surface mount chip soldered onto the mainboard rather than multiple SIMM's like in the later Akai's or dozens of low capacity memory chips like you find on earlier machines like the S612 or S900. I suspect that the big proprietry memory boards you find in the S1000 era machines might be very bendable but i foolishly sold my S1000HD a while back without having a go at it first
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