The official AKAI S series thread

Lord Toranaga wrote:you know they don't play wav files.

yeah, I know

I just like to phrase things as rhetorical questions

my point is that to get the sample on either of those it'd have to be played from something else first ... so might as well go straight to the s900

The s3000xl showed up yesterday.
equipped with full memory for only $49


the s2800 has not showed up yet.

Lord Toranaga wrote:the s2800 has not showed up yet.

you'd better buy another one then

y'know, just in case

i hear plenty of people commenting on how they like the punchy sound of drums sampled on the s3000xl (and related machines).

but i got to say, the keys are sounding really good. i have some organ/electric piano programs that make beautiful chords. the filters, layering and modulation add some real charm.

The s28000 finally showed up yesterday.

it works fine, but i plan to part it out on ebay

Just scored an s3200xl.

it was kind of expensive

I hope to god that all the expansion cards are still in it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SA:US:1123



I decided to keep the s2800 also

Lord Toranaga wrote:Just scored an s3200xl.

it was kind of expensive

I hope to god that all the expansion cards are still in it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SA:US:1123



I decided to keep the s2800 also

man, if you wind up with every s series model... you HAVE to take a picture of that rack... that would be an awesome pic.

I rethought the s2800 & i am dismantling it right now.

I can part it out and make a grip

Lord Toranaga wrote:Just scored an s3200xl.

it was kind of expensive

I hope to god that all the expansion cards are still in it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SA:US:1123

I decided to keep the s2800 also

The S3200XL won't operate if the EB-16 is pulled. Unless the seller put a jumper on the connector to trick the sampler, then it's likely in there.

Unfortunately if you were hoping to also find a IB-304F inside, you will find out that the chipset is built into the motherboard and not removable.

thanks for the information.

I was not planning on pulling them, I just wanted to use the machine properly.

I did not know that the filter board was hard wired.
Very good.


I imagine that I will sell the s3000xl also

so here's something i've been wondering about... i currently have two AKAI S900 samplers in my possession... one of them has OS version 1.2 on it, but the other only has version 1.0... i've read up as much as i can regarding how to update the OS to 4.0 and it appears that this is only possible from version 1.2... i've been able to find os2.0 and os4.0 online, but they both require 1.2 to work... so what i want to know is: how do i go about updating the one with 1.0 to version 1.2?? i originally thought i would be able to create a new system disk from the one with 1.2 and just load that into the other one, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all... is it possible to do?? or is 1.0 vs 1.2 actually a difference in chips and not in software?

crossings wrote:so here's something i've been wondering about... i currently have two AKAI S900 samplers in my possession... one of them has OS version 1.2 on it, but the other only has version 1.0... i've read up as much as i can regarding how to update the OS to 4.0 and it appears that this is only possible from version 1.2... i've been able to find os2.0 and os4.0 online, but they both require 1.2 to work... so what i want to know is: how do i go about updating the one with 1.0 to version 1.2?? i originally thought i would be able to create a new system disk from the one with 1.2 and just load that into the other one, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all... is it possible to do?? or is 1.0 vs 1.2 actually a difference in chips and not in software?

well maybe that is the case, it is possible that the older OS doesn't include the feature of flashing the eprom... isn't that one of the features new to the 3000?

Throw back pic of my S series racks

Look at how much sample time I had on the 5000... 11 hours and 5 minutes









My favorite S rack had to be the S 950 for it's filter until I got the bright idea to get a real analog filter. If only I was that smart 19 years ago LOL

crossings wrote:so here's something i've been wondering about... i currently have two AKAI S900 samplers in my possession... one of them has OS version 1.2 on it, but the other only has version 1.0... i've read up as much as i can regarding how to update the OS to 4.0 and it appears that this is only possible from version 1.2... i've been able to find os2.0 and os4.0 online, but they both require 1.2 to work... so what i want to know is: how do i go about updating the one with 1.0 to version 1.2?? i originally thought i would be able to create a new system disk from the one with 1.2 and just load that into the other one, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all... is it possible to do?? or is 1.0 vs 1.2 actually a difference in chips and not in software?

so to answer my own question... i've verified that the 1.2 firmware is in fact a prom chip that needs to be replaced internally... and not something that software can remedy...

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