Hi your tape has just arrived! Many thanks for this! I am Jungle obsessed since the mid 90s. This year i am getting 47 years old. Unbelievable how fast time passed by. You did really great work and you bring the real 90s Sound back into my living room. This is a real flashback. Thank you for this!!
Great nostalgia! At Highschool in the 90s all my first part time job money and Christmas went on a used S1000 and all I had was the family digital piano, Tandy mixer and, a year or so later, a Korg M1. Oh, an my computer was an Acorn Archimedes, which was cool for MIDI about didn’t have any librarians or Recycle type tools. A few techno friends were into making ‘Tracker’ music on 16bit computers but no one had a proper Akai. So I felt I was doing this weird amazing thing when making my mostly ‘ambient techno’ and chillout d’n’b. Now every kid with a laptop and a DAW has the tools to make whatever. Some of the magic has gone.
@@IJOSoundVideo I mean you do it in stages: preparing sample pack then building song. In my case it's continuos process, I keep sampling/resampling during composing. I keep the whole process in one app to avoid switching
@@dreamwebspace Understandable. In my experience, I started making music with computers back in the 90s, when a VST wasn't even a thing, so I had to come up with my own way of making things, which was prepping my self a mini sample data pack, then use different programs to do different things and then combine them all together in yet another program. So this workflow grew on me and i sort of still do things pretty much the same way as I did many moons ago.
a simply question....why instead of sampling reason into an akai don't you get a mac or pc running reason and other software like digital performer? I mean...I don't get the advantage of working with a limited 16 bit sampler used for sampling vst and reason.
Very good question. First of all - making music must be fun for me, and using software isn't fun at all. I hate mixing in a daw, i don't like the sound of a software production. Doing stuff OTB is fun and I love the sound. AKAI gives a charakter no plugin has, further mixing on an analog desk gives more character, and using outboard fx gives pleasing textures, non of which is close when doing stuff only ITB. That is my choice and i enjoy such process.
@@IJOSoundVideo so reasons are both fun factor and sound....do you think working itb with daw and plug in gives a track worse quality compared to analog desk and outboard? Well I'm not agree completely, 4 me it depends also what kind of gear, surely mixing on a milion dollars console and world class outboard makes tracks shiny, but not with a small analogue home console....points of view. I"ve seen another thing, some people into jungle and d&b love working with trackers even on amiga like octamed...but a tracker is simply a primitive and cheap DAW with a different top down approach of sequencing, a software digital summing of samples very limited compared even to reason. Beeing you an expert of jungle music can you explain me why some people likes working in this way, fun factor or maybe ispiration?
@@kyma1999x Hey ! Great discussion. I am sureeveryone have their own personal reason for using certain tools. I definatelly have mine. I have been making music for 30 years, i started out with just a piano and a reel to reel tape and a micraphone.. Later when still a teenager, i had an opportunity recording my music in a proper studio, and then just in my bedroom using only a PC, and later moved on to making music with hardware. I still use computers only for soe of my projects, but when it comes to jungle - it has to be done the old way, otherwise it just sounds cheap and amateur. For exanmple - if you take any track by Dilinja made in the mid 90s with a minimal bedroom setup, it sounds warm, full, minimal but proffesional with great ideas, and take his later tracks mad in mid 00, it sounds crap and total garbage, same with every other producer. I can hear the difference in my own production when i make music ITB only vs OTB only, there's a huge difference. There's a difference when triggering softare samples vs hardware sampler via MIDI, there's a difference in summing IB vs analog desk. There's a difference approach in making music having super limited equipment vs unlimited options of plugins and synths. At the end of the day - we all use what we can.
Did Akai build this sampler specifically for Jungle and Hip Hop or is it just those two genres of music use it the most? I,m sure there must be other forms of music that could be reproduced using this powerful tool.
Loving your channel and Loving the original and authentic sound! I have been searching for a break for a while now that you use at 12:28 Can you tell me the name of it please?
@@Tpmler Hey ! I am using very old version of SF, i go to toolbars, I activate all of them because i never know which one is which, and then I just close everything i don't need, and only keep a few ones, as being able to see the BPM is vital in my process.
Do you use any storage medium with your s1000 in this workflow? Any floppies, floppy USB emulators or SCSItoSD? Or are you just resampling from s1000 into DAW and not actually saving anything to the s1000?
Hey ! I don't track stems in to the DAW, I only use my Computer for MIDI sequencing, and capturing a final stereo Mixdown from my mixing desk. I use floppies to storage akai data for a track, but once I have made the track, I usually re-use the floppy for another track, so I don't store my data as such for a longer time
@@IJOSoundVideo Ah so you’re not just sending individual samples to the S1000, pitching them down and throwing them back into computer. You’re throwing all samples onto the S1000, pitching down, and then sequencing everything there. Then creating a mix with your hardware mixer and finally bouncing stereo track to computer for mastering etc. Have I understood it correctly? So what software are you using to sequence the S1000? And how are you connecting to the S1000, MIDI usb interface?
@@quentinjames981 yes, you got that right :) I use Cubase vst32 for midi sequencing, and i use any sound card that has a 5-pin midi connection to connect to the akai .
Sounds great! Quick question, how do you manage to get the slower funk loop to loop at the same time as the Amen? Are the both not different BPMs and do they not go out of time?
Hey, I make sure I have all my breaks are at the same tempo before going in to sampler. I pitch them individually in Sound Forge, but it can be done in any software / daw. This can also be done in the sampler, but that would take too much time for me.
It's not a digital mixer, I assume you think I am sending my tracks from the DAW straight to the mixer ? This is a standalone analog mixer, to which I have connected my separate outputs coming from AKAI, Microkorg, Soundcard and record player, and only stereo output from the mixer goes back to my soundcard where I record final 2 track stereo mixdowns. The DAW I am using is called Cubase VST32 released in 2001.
@@IJOSoundVideo I know it’s not a digital mixer I was wondering how you use this in your set up I have a Roland jv1080 s950 s3000xl and fx units I was wondering how I can use this and get the sounds into my daw through the mixer and is it possible to mix down on my mixer from my daw once sequenced?
@@amerism4530 Sorry for misunderstanding your question. In your case, you need a mixer with at least 16 channels and maybe more, if you want to utilize all of your gears outputs. You would have to sequence your gear on any DAW of your choice, but instead of using VST instruments, you would use outboard gear via MIDI, and instead of mixing down inside your DAW, you would use your mixing desk, and only send stereo output from the mixer back to your DAW / or any other recording device such as a tape player or something similar.
@@IJOSoundVideo oh ok so you can’t actually mix down whole finished tunes on the mixer just use it to bounce the output stem to the daw so you can sequence it ?
@@amerism4530 The way I use it is - I have all my gear connected to my mixer, this is where all "the sound" happens, I don't use stems, i.e. I don't use any audio for sequencing at all. It is all MIDI, I load my sounds to my sampler, and I use MIDI to make my gear play the sounds in to the mixer where I do the mixing down using EQ and effects, and the final mixdown I record from the mixer to the computer. I explain how I mixdown here: ua-cam.com/video/-xq-x9JqELg/v-deo.html
Hi your tape has just arrived! Many thanks for this! I am Jungle
obsessed since the mid 90s. This year i am getting 47 years old.
Unbelievable how fast time passed by. You did really great work and you
bring the real 90s Sound back into my living room. This is a real
flashback. Thank you for this!!
Thank You !
Great nostalgia! At Highschool in the 90s all my first part time job money and Christmas went on a used S1000 and all I had was the family digital piano, Tandy mixer and, a year or so later, a Korg M1. Oh, an my computer was an Acorn Archimedes, which was cool for MIDI about didn’t have any librarians or Recycle type tools. A few techno friends were into making ‘Tracker’ music on 16bit computers but no one had a proper Akai. So I felt I was doing this weird amazing thing when making my mostly ‘ambient techno’ and chillout d’n’b. Now every kid with a laptop and a DAW has the tools to make whatever. Some of the magic has gone.
Super nice workflow, It reminded me that I need to get back using Reason. I personally enjoy chopping on the S1100 and sequencing from Octamed4
great insight on your workflow my man, much respect g
love your music, love your new album; you have an unmistakable sound. thanks for the cool commentary on your process!
Great video, many people dont realise it's really simple. My workflow is different, I stick to one DAW throughout whole process
Hey ! I too sometimes stick to only one DAW, but different DAWs can do different things and one just isn't enough for me :D
@@IJOSoundVideo I mean you do it in stages: preparing sample pack then building song. In my case it's continuos process, I keep sampling/resampling during composing. I keep the whole process in one app to avoid switching
@@dreamwebspace Understandable. In my experience, I started making music with computers back in the 90s, when a VST wasn't even a thing, so I had to come up with my own way of making things, which was prepping my self a mini sample data pack, then use different programs to do different things and then combine them all together in yet another program. So this workflow grew on me and i sort of still do things pretty much the same way as I did many moons ago.
@@IJOSoundVideo Understandable. I started in early 90s on the Amiga
Your vids motivate me to get back to my hardware roots!
Man I WISH so much that Dusty Devices made that Needle plugin for other DAWs too… It’s sublime
Thank you to show the light :)
great video & workflow!
👍
Nice, honest work. Great music. Thanks!
Vibes all day long
thanks for Akaizer! wicked!
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing this !
thanks for detailing your process. Love that pitching of samples,, gives them a nice touch. Also makes me wanna get back to Reason and Cubase.
I'll try and make a video on Reason too, once I have something interesting to show.
@@IJOSoundVideo yea just thought that was neat making a track to resample rather than sampling something. good stuff, cheers
a simply question....why instead of sampling reason into an akai don't you get a mac or pc running reason and other software like digital performer?
I mean...I don't get the advantage of working with a limited 16 bit sampler used for sampling vst and reason.
Very good question. First of all - making music must be fun for me, and using software isn't fun at all. I hate mixing in a daw, i don't like the sound of a software production. Doing stuff OTB is fun and I love the sound. AKAI gives a charakter no plugin has, further mixing on an analog desk gives more character, and using outboard fx gives pleasing textures, non of which is close when doing stuff only ITB. That is my choice and i enjoy such process.
@@IJOSoundVideo so reasons are both fun factor and sound....do you think working itb with daw and plug in gives a track worse quality compared to analog desk and outboard?
Well I'm not agree completely, 4 me it depends also what kind of gear, surely mixing on a milion dollars console and world class outboard makes tracks shiny, but not with a small analogue home console....points of view.
I"ve seen another thing, some people into jungle and d&b love working with trackers even on amiga like octamed...but a tracker is simply a primitive and cheap DAW with a different top down approach of sequencing, a software digital summing of samples very limited compared even to reason.
Beeing you an expert of jungle music can you explain me why some people likes working in this way, fun factor or maybe ispiration?
@@kyma1999x Hey ! Great discussion. I am sureeveryone have their own personal reason for using certain tools. I definatelly have mine. I have been making music for 30 years, i started out with just a piano and a reel to reel tape and a micraphone.. Later when still a teenager, i had an opportunity recording my music in a proper studio, and then just in my bedroom using only a PC, and later moved on to making music with hardware. I still use computers only for soe of my projects, but when it comes to jungle - it has to be done the old way, otherwise it just sounds cheap and amateur. For exanmple - if you take any track by Dilinja made in the mid 90s with a minimal bedroom setup, it sounds warm, full, minimal but proffesional with great ideas, and take his later tracks mad in mid 00, it sounds crap and total garbage, same with every other producer. I can hear the difference in my own production when i make music ITB only vs OTB only, there's a huge difference. There's a difference when triggering softare samples vs hardware sampler via MIDI, there's a difference in summing IB vs analog desk. There's a difference approach in making music having super limited equipment vs unlimited options of plugins and synths. At the end of the day - we all use what we can.
Did Akai build this sampler specifically for Jungle and Hip Hop or is it just those two genres of music use it the most? I,m sure there must be other forms of music that could be reproduced using this powerful tool.
Your channel is fab - new sub here
Hey. Welcome !
Loving your channel and Loving the original and authentic sound!
I have been searching for a break for a while now that you use at 12:28
Can you tell me the name of it please?
Hey ! I don't know where the break originally comes from, I have its name as "virgo" in my library, but I don't remember where I took it from.
@@IJOSoundVideo thank you for the reply. I look forward to your next video.
How do you have the BPM show up on the toolbar in Sound forge?
@@Tpmler Hey ! I am using very old version of SF, i go to toolbars, I activate all of them because i never know which one is which, and then I just close everything i don't need, and only keep a few ones, as being able to see the BPM is vital in my process.
Where can I find Cubase VST/32? I've been searching around the internet and it's impossible to find. 😃
Just as I say that, I found it on the Macintosh Repository. Guess I'll have to find an old Mac for this, sorry Optiplex
Nevermind, needs a key 💀
I honestly own a cracked copy that I bought back in 2001 in a market selling bootleg CDs :D
@@IJOSoundVideo If you've still got the CD, could you please archive it somewhere for all of us? 😄
There you go buddy drive.google.com/drive/folders/19Ay0W0-yPJEwcWJd_gsVlZiW4cCff3dS?usp=sharing @@dsfadfdag6534
Do you use any storage medium with your s1000 in this workflow? Any floppies, floppy USB emulators or SCSItoSD? Or are you just resampling from s1000 into DAW and not actually saving anything to the s1000?
Hey ! I don't track stems in to the DAW, I only use my Computer for MIDI sequencing, and capturing a final stereo Mixdown from my mixing desk. I use floppies to storage akai data for a track, but once I have made the track, I usually re-use the floppy for another track, so I don't store my data as such for a longer time
@@IJOSoundVideo Ah so you’re not just sending individual samples to the S1000, pitching them down and throwing them back into computer. You’re throwing all samples onto the S1000, pitching down, and then sequencing everything there. Then creating a mix with your hardware mixer and finally bouncing stereo track to computer for mastering etc. Have I understood it correctly? So what software
are you using to sequence the S1000? And how are you connecting to the S1000, MIDI usb interface?
@@quentinjames981 yes, you got that right :) I use Cubase vst32 for midi sequencing, and i use any sound card that has a 5-pin midi connection to connect to the akai .
Dank
Sounds great! Quick question, how do you manage to get the slower funk loop to loop at the same time as the Amen? Are the both not different BPMs and do they not go out of time?
Hey, I make sure I have all my breaks are at the same tempo before going in to sampler. I pitch them individually in Sound Forge, but it can be done in any software / daw. This can also be done in the sampler, but that would take too much time for me.
What Cubase version is this?
Cubase VST/32
@@IJOSoundVideo Is there a way to get it in 2023?
how is you analogue mixer connected to your daw and what daw are you using there
It's not a digital mixer, I assume you think I am sending my tracks from the DAW straight to the mixer ? This is a standalone analog mixer, to which I have connected my separate outputs coming from AKAI, Microkorg, Soundcard and record player, and only stereo output from the mixer goes back to my soundcard where I record final 2 track stereo mixdowns. The DAW I am using is called Cubase VST32 released in 2001.
@@IJOSoundVideo I know it’s not a digital mixer I was wondering how you use this in your set up I have a Roland jv1080 s950 s3000xl and fx units I was wondering how I can use this and get the sounds into my daw through the mixer and is it possible to mix down on my mixer from my daw once sequenced?
@@amerism4530 Sorry for misunderstanding your question. In your case, you need a mixer with at least 16 channels and maybe more, if you want to utilize all of your gears outputs. You would have to sequence your gear on any DAW of your choice, but instead of using VST instruments, you would use outboard gear via MIDI, and instead of mixing down inside your DAW, you would use your mixing desk, and only send stereo output from the mixer back to your DAW / or any other recording device such as a tape player or something similar.
@@IJOSoundVideo oh ok so you can’t actually mix down whole finished tunes on the mixer just use it to bounce the output stem to the daw so you can sequence it ?
@@amerism4530 The way I use it is - I have all my gear connected to my mixer, this is where all "the sound" happens, I don't use stems, i.e. I don't use any audio for sequencing at all. It is all MIDI, I load my sounds to my sampler, and I use MIDI to make my gear play the sounds in to the mixer where I do the mixing down using EQ and effects, and the final mixdown I record from the mixer to the computer. I explain how I mixdown here: ua-cam.com/video/-xq-x9JqELg/v-deo.html
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less is so much more.
Definitely !