- Why don't S900/S950 samples sound good? If you send 16-bit samples to the S900/S950 they will not sound as good as 12-bit samples because the bottom four bits are truncated. When recording, these samplers use heavy dithering to smooth out the quantization noise - You should do the same.
- Akai S900/S950 MIDI SysEx Documentation. Akai Sampler Disk And File Formats. Documentation and other related programs. Akai S900/S950 Midi Controller Messages. Akai S900/S950 System Exclusive Specification. Akai S950 Manual. WavAkai98 (program to send wav files to all S-Series Akai samplers via Midi, unzip folder to Windows desktop and double.
- Re: AKAI S900 won't output any sound. Bycrossings Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:32 pm well the problem is definitely somewhere within the voice board top circuit board in the machine. Because if i disconnect the cable that runs from the power supply to the voice board and power it up, the s900 turns on and functions identical to how it is.
- Akai Sound Effects (11) Most recent Oldest Shortest duration Longest duration Any Length 2 sec 2 sec - 5 sec 5 sec - 20 sec 20 sec - 1 min 1 min All libraries Monster X Mike Dred SI BEGG The Soundcatcher.
Digging the crunchy 12-bit sound of classic samplers like the Akai S950? Well, now there’s a plugin for that.
Akai S900/S950 Sample Library. S900/950 Sample Library 92 Disks. $10 Each: This library is also compatible with the Akai S1000, S1100, S2000, S2800, S3000 S3000XL, S3200XL, Remix 16, S01 and Kurzweil K2000s & K2500s: Library Also Available as Floppy Disk Images via download delivery.
Mathieu Demange, an independent software developer from France has released his first effect plugin in VST, Audio Units & Rack Extension formats: the RX950 Classic AD/DA Converter.
The plug-in mimics the AD/DA conversion process of the Akai S950, thanks to an accurate modeling process. According to the developer, to achieve this result, Demange has studied every bit of his very own Akai S950 unit in order to replicate each stage of the signal processing. With over a year of work, the result comes as the RX950 Classic AD/DA Converter.
Let’s watch a quick overview:
As you can see in the video above, the RX950’s interface is a simple affair of 4 self-explanatory knobs and one button – you can’t go wrong with them!
We’re looking forward to adding the plugin to our DAW (it’s also low on CPU, which helps!).
Price
19,00€
To buy the plugin and learn more about it go here.
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Ok this is an issue. If you scan the net most people is telling that you need AKAIDISK. And most people is telling one needs Win98 tooWRONG!
You can read/write Akai S900 disks with Omniflop, and it works flawlessly under XP. (actually ONLY XP is supported!) (EDIT 02/18/2010: Omniflop 2.2c has been reported to work with Vista)
Akai S950 Tone Programmer
WHAT YOU NEED:- PC with floppy drive (not USB!)
- Registered Onmiflop program (it's free)
- AKAI S900/s950
- Floppies (Modern HDs work ok, just put some tape on the HD hole...)
- Samples
- Patience :)
WHAT TO DO:
First install Omniflop. Later on, when trying to read a disk it will ask for a key and if you don't have it already the wizard will ask to mail the author to get one. Mail him and get your key. (he's very kind and usually replies within 24h. EDIT: I see from the site that now registration is done via WWW...)
Get a floppy, if it's HD put some tape in the hole.
Format the taped disk in the S900 and save some samples on it.Akai S950 Vst
If you are running OS 4 on your AKAI and want to access the samples later from the PC remember to disable 'SAMPLE COMPRESSION' from the DISK menu. If you just plan to backup your floppies you can leave compression ON.
Fire up your Omniflop, do the free registration thing, and set it in READ DISK mode using its simple wizard. When it comes to select a format choose the following:
Now insert the AKAI floppy in the PC drive. and go 'NEXT' REMEMBER TO WRITE PROTECT THE DISK AND PUT SOME TAPE ON THE HD HOLE! If you don't write protect it and something goes wrong you may lose you data. You've been warned...
Akai S950 Sampler
Now save the file, use
.img extension.Your backup is done. You can write it back to a floppy at anytime, remembering to put some tape on the hole. The best is to format the floppy on the AKAI before writing back images on it.
With Omniflop you can also write back to floppy the new OS 4.0 and load it into the AKAI. Instruction will follow. Information about the new(er) OS 4