hello to all my new friends
any0ne use akai s 950 ?

 

In storage but yeah

 

Because dont use it?

 

not much you can do with 2 megabytes of memory

 

Oh I dont know, I did this on a 950.. thats the Amen break, the vocals, fx and the strings all om a 2 meg sampler. Analog yummyness from a Cheetha MS-6.

 

Sweet memories.. I was swapping floppydisks all night. The S1000 had 8 megs I believe, but was totally out of my price range back then.. Nice track btw @techdevil..

 

I wish I had one back in the days, or even better an S1000.
Even if it's obsolete by today's standard, they are still relatively expensive:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Akai-S950-...931756?hash=item3af7a5a72c:g:JlQAAOSwa0VaDgrI

 

man, thats amazing!

 

@boomoperator @saltwater thx guys.....

 

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Theres something sweet about outboard samplers, I run a yamaha a4000 with an akai s5000 and a akai s01 modded with gotek. Although i admit they are not as quick to use as a software synth i still love to make breaks, and even basic synth bass's using the yamaha osc, filters and fx and then i record them in and edit them further in my DAW using kontakt. Best of both worlds.

 

I used to have S950 back in the day and it's a lovely sounding sampler with really interesting sounding time stretching and converters, but its filter is not so nice. If they put a resonant filter in it, it would be really good! Nowadays I'm using fully expanded S3200 and its filter sounds quite good. The filter on the additional board especially. It's also easier to edit. I love it for drums and vocals, even basslines. Still very useful machine. S950, too, without a doubt! I made whole songs with it and Korg Wavestation!

 

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The filter was bloody awful.... you could get a nicer sound by slowly sticking blutack to your tweeter....

 

MY INTERESSING IN THIS TIME WHENDIGITAL COME TRUE SOME1 USE 12BIT ANALOG SAMPLER

 

For me its not just about the sounds, it also encourages me to use a different technique when creating a song. I make decisions that are more final and it all comes together in a different way then if im using plugins. Only problem is i find i need to dedicate a day/more time to this type of production.

 

Older skool o samplers...Emu all the way..!!..
E series....e6400ultra etc etc etc 5000 ultra...."so cheap these dayss too"..

i never did use the 950....
i did use the 3200xl n the 5000 ...cant quite remember the corerct model number eithere....

but the front panel came off......"Meanin was detatchable....not busted up ...he he he

 

man Emu samplers had the best filters ever

 

back in the day SP-1200 combo... dope!

 

oh man when the emu ultra series came out with beat munging crazy + the filters indeed crazy good Emu/Ensoniq merged i wish they were still around making workstations and samplers etc.

 

yes i miss that era too check this out :

 

The worrisome part is that there's still nothing like E-MU Z-plane filters anywhere in VST to be found. Except the a bit buggy and rather old Emulator X3 that I still use btw. They're all busy emulating Juno-106.... :lol:

p.s. Which I owned and found more sterile sounding than my Juno-60 anyway. Really boring synths, both of them. Very constricted. One and a half trick ponies. I don't get the hype around it at all.

These days I find myself sampling the Juno into A5000 and mangling the hell out of it. That's more like it. Then it goes into the pedals. Want to be creative? Sound different?

 

Last edited: Dec 8, 2017