Sampler shootout SP12 vs Emax vs S950 vs S1000 vs S1100 ...

Can I hack the s1000HD to have a higher capacity hard drive than 40MB?

What's even better is to throw out the HD & floppy, replace with a pcd50b & pcmcia to cf adapter.
.....The 1000hd has all the cabling needed for a straight swap with the above.

The acard 7720 plus ide cf drive also work.... but you need to hack a cable for that.... as you'll req. two power connectors.

I assume the 1000hd has the same 540mb or thereabouts size limit as the 1100.

What are those plugs on the front panel of an S1000? XLR ? DIN? MIDI?

XLR sample ins

szr wrote:XLR sample ins

Will recording from the XLR out on my emu 1616m make a better sample recording than 1/4" cable?

Unless I'm mistaken a *balanced* 1/4 jack cable should be equiv. to an XLR.

szr wrote:Unless I'm mistaken a *balanced* 1/4 jack cable should be equiv. to an XLR.

Thanks. I caved in and made a bid on an s1000HD with 4MB of ram. Original owner from 1989. It looks minty. If I win I am picking it up locally on the 12/26. Merry Christmas to me.

If you need professional grade cables on the cheap prices go to monoprice.com

Cool, let us know how it goes

szr wrote:Cool, let us know how it goes

After the auction ended I drove to do a local pick up. Item was damn near mint. It came with the original box, 4MB upgrade, and a lot of professional sample discs. I saw the pricetag of the item originally and it said 6900.00 and the original box for the additional ram upgrade was for 999.00. Manual wasn't even touched. Not a bad deal for 230 dollars. I have to now read the manual to see how to find out what the capacity of the HD is.

Wow, so the s1000hd cost around the same as the 1100... interesting, thanks for that info.
I was told a while ago that a s1100 with 32mb ram cost at least 10,000$
...I guess 3-4k just for the full RAM upgrade.

The HD should be 30/40MB, the 1000HD has a fan in the back, which helps distribute alot of dust all over the inside, might want to take the top off and blow out all the dust with some compressed air.
Will help the hard drive last longer & the sampler in general.

jibber wrote:The big shock for me was the 2KXL to be honest. I would have never thought this would sound so bad, but it does. There's no better word than "thin" to describe the sound. It lacks in stereo image, quality, bass... you name it.

Try to record it using individual outputs... to me sounds quite good in that way... the problem is it sums very bad, so the L-R out sounds very collapsed

mattian wrote:

jibber wrote:The big shock for me was the 2KXL to be honest. I would have never thought this would sound so bad, but it does. There's no better word than "thin" to describe the sound. It lacks in stereo image, quality, bass... you name it.

Try to record it using individual outputs... to me sounds quite good in that way... the problem is it sums very bad, so the L-R out sounds very collapsed

could you explain that a bit more?

mattian wrote:

jibber wrote:The big shock for me was the 2KXL to be honest. I would have never thought this would sound so bad, but it does. There's no better word than "thin" to describe the sound. It lacks in stereo image, quality, bass... you name it.

Try to record it using individual outputs... to me sounds quite good in that way... the problem is it sums very bad, so the L-R out sounds very collapsed

Can you post a sound demo of this ? We would be very interested in hearing this.

Thanks

AntonPD wrote:

mattian wrote:

jibber wrote:The big shock for me was the 2KXL to be honest. I would have never thought this would sound so bad, but it does. There's no better word than "thin" to describe the sound. It lacks in stereo image, quality, bass... you name it.

Try to record it using individual outputs... to me sounds quite good in that way... the problem is it sums very bad, so the L-R out sounds very collapsed

could you explain that a bit more?

hes saying the internal mixing of the xl is the culprit and so if you use the 8 outs and mix externally, it sounds better.

i cannot confirm nor deny this but there is your explanation.

i definitely prefer mixing externally.

look man, is a thing I noticed many times... I use just the Left output during production.. and sounds more "processed", when you produce don't care about anything, so I prefer using just one mono out because I have 8 in in my interface, so I have more channel free...

But when I track, I use all the MPC outs and everything sound more detailed and more defined, there's more space between tracks

That's what I'm hear and the explanation I give myself is that mixing everything inside the machine will have more "glue" but that glue is the MPC that cannot sum internally very well...

Even if you put everything inside a Boss pedal everything will sound more glued, but you also lose tons of sound

I think that's the reason why there are 8 outs, I noticed this even with the s3000xl

The fact I heard over this board the L-R is 18 bit instead 16 of the individual... I think is to leave a bit more headroom for overshoots.. which are quite frequent if the master bus has to handle all sounds together

So, the 2 bits more are totally useless on the individual outs

All this meaning, L-R impress more because sound more in your face... but they also kill transients, detail and separation between tracks.. after noticing this I've done many tests in the past all confirmed that