AKAI S950 WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS..
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- IN THIS VIDEO I EXPLAIN THE HISTORY OF THE AKAI S950.
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The S950 was like the ghost writer of HipHop. The Sp1200 and MPC were the stars getting the credit but the 950 was doing the work behind the scene
And nerds like me can pick out each song on an album and tell you whether or not a sp was used or not
I feel you.
Facts. DJ Premiers say wassup series exposed it more to me. His sound did not come from the MPC 60 but instead the s950
@@jonathansoko1085 What sampler was used for the first song on Quik Is the Name? 2nd song on Enta Da Stage? 5th song on Doe or Die??? 7th song on Music to Driveby???? 2nd song on Hard 2 Earn??? 1st song on 21 & Over??? I wont hold my breathe. Because you don't know s7^^%!!!!!!!!!! Stop lying motherf^^%^^!!!!!!
@@dianevrules 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣too funny
Found my S950 at a pawnshop a few ago for $150.
Came up
Nice!
Got 3 once, traded for a bass amp!
That would be a dream come true damn
Copped a s900 for $125 with the blue screen light at my music pawn. Then found a new box of floppy’s at goodwill that worked perfect in the 900
SKI Beats!!!! He so cool we chopped it up at a Mobb Deep show. Another dope video. The s900 and s950 are the hardest samplers I have tried to use next to the rack mount EPS lol. Shout out to Premo and Large Pro!!!
No doubt bro!..Ski Beats is a legend.
Rickey Lawson Rest In Peace, those are his drums on the MPC60 sound kit, the Rickey Set
Oh wow ok I didn't know that.
"Put It through the S950, then STRETCH IT!"
"All I see is blinkin' lights, track boards and fat mics-950's, SP12's, MP-60's."
Still have my S-950 in mint condition.
Nice!
Same here
Mint 950/mint 1200/ mint 60
Shit is thumping ear drums pumping
These 'What Had Happened Was' series is very informative and entertaining at the same time. Great content.
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.
I still have both the s900 and the s950 the s900 is collecting dust but the s950 i still use to this day!
No doubt bro!
Your enthusiasm is unmatched
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.
@@DyReckProductionsseriously, I wish I had that zest and enthusiasm, you are very lucky
@@SurgeCess No doubt bro..I appreciate it..I think im buying too much gear though lol..When I see a nice one for a bargain..Im on it Lol!
I'm binge watching your videos right now, i like your style
Lmao! Thanks fam.
Yes. You finally covered my old sampler. Brings back memories.
Lol no doubt bro.
I'm Italian, I happened upon your video by chance looking for stuff on the 950. I'm laughing for the bus driver ahahhahahaha
Lmao!!
Another banger!! S950 was a beast!!! Great video brother!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿💪🏿💪🏿
Thanks bro!..I appreciate it.
Another winner! Thx my guy
Thanks bro.
Definitely a trip down memory lane. I’m an old head I.T. Pro, and as you described your Napster experience I lived it from day one. I advanced to Megaupload, and other programs to start getting whole LPs. It got so bad, I was downloading 2-300 albums a day. It was crazy, but I kept it on the low. I never got to own an S950, but definitely was influenced by its usage. I went the E-MU ESI4000 route when the time came. I may eventually get one just out of respect for its legendary impact. These pieces are increasingly hard to find these days for reasonable prices. But, there’s no denying that sound. Keep em coming bruh. 👍🏾✌🏾✊🏾
Napster specifically did Nas bogus, he was the first victim
300 albums a day!!..Wow you were going in Lol!!
@@MrScrooge1980 Lol..Yeah his album did drop around that time.
@@DyReckProductions Indeed, I was basically in the BIGGEST record store with endless funds. I would ask friends for ideas to search for, and get anything else that came up while searching. Funny thing is that I've always been a collector. Many filled hard drive has never even been listened too. All those exclusives, I got them as well. Years later, peeps started to hear, and get them. I laughed at them clout chasing with those files.
@@Netm8kr Oh ok cool.
Dope work mane!
Thanks bro!
Great channel you have here. I came for the gear but stayed for the history lessons.
Lol Thanks bro.
I remember Mike was posting on mpcforums years back chopping it up. I own 2 s950's. Will probably let one go in the future but will most definitely keep the other. Great content 👍🏾
Thanks Fam.
Please hit me up if you let go of a 950
I love this channel bro. Keep making these. You'll make it happen.
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.
This is great info and history. Keep dropping it for us 🔥
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.
I had that ninja turtles lunch box growing up back in the first grade. Best self defense weapon ever.
Lmao!
🤣🤣🤣
another great video, thanks
Thanks fam!
Another classic vid on another CLASSIC peice of gear!
Thanks fam!.I appreciate it.
Finally one I can comment on! I’m definitely in the “still use and love the 950” camp.
Lol..No doubt bro!
If you teamed up with very sick beats, that would be a powerful duo.
I absolutely loved your presentation on this. Was not expecting it whatsoever and I bet you could sell sand in a desert, with the way you handled yourself.
Lol!! Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.
Another great video. I love my s900. Anything you sample just instantly sounds like 'hip hop'.
I usually sample from vinyl to the s900 or x7000 before sampling into the 2000xl. Really beefs up the sound.
Nice.
@def creator what exactly is your problem? I write a positive comment about a great video and add on my experience only to have you be all condescending. I've been making hip hop for well over 20 years. I said it sounds like hip hop. I was referring to tone, texture and warmth. I never said it magically did anything. 'Sounds like hip hop' is a metaphor. You used a metaphor when you said 'screaming like a retard' so you understand it's use.
@@andrewsmyth1652 I'm not trying to be a 'grammar nazi' but 'Sounds like hip hop' is not really a metaphor, it's a simile - but I feel ya on what you're sayin'.
@@fmagic2000able seems like you are. Thanks.
I'm so glad I had a chance to use one back in the days..
I feel you.
Love it man
No Doubt fam.
Without this rack mounted sampler and the Roland TR-909, electronic music as we know it would not exist. Period.
It just dawned on me, your energy / vibe during narration reminds me of uncle Ralph from Video Music Box. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Love the Turtles lunchbox! I still have my Gobots lunchbox from 1984 with thermos. It was never used! I had an aunt like Ralphie’s from “A Christmas Story”, who thought I was 5 years younger than I really was ;-) Akai was hit’n it back in the 80’s. Hell…, I remember seeing one of their early samplers in the music department at one of our local Colleges back in the 80’s when we were on a field trip there, and I specifically remember the music professor saying “Sampling is going to change the music industry”.
On the Turtles thing; Here in UK our Govt decided that the term Ninja, was a dangerous one linked to violence so they had the company re-name them The Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles!! How crazy dumb is that?!
Yeah that music professor was right!..Omg The Gobots!..Leader 1 Lol!!
@@patkelly8309 Oh Wow..Thats Crazy Lol!
Good work man!!!!!!!! The turtles lunchbox and NKOTB!! I'm at my desk rolling!!! 😂 You would be a good salesman I swear
Lmao!..Thanks fam..The Turtles was everything back then lol.
I never got the Beatles either and I grew up at that time.
Lol.
@@DyReckProductions There were lots of bands like the Beatles. Mersey Beat was a publisher of those bands. Thay all sounded the same, all using the same boring chord progressions. I never got the hype.
@@DrMuse-on2dx In some places you can get tarred and feathered for saying the Beatles are overrated.
@@MeneTekelUpharsin There was a lot of bands that had the Mersey Beat sound. It was Brian Samuel Epstein who made the Beatles famous. Check out Mersey Beat sound for yourself. I did like the Lonely Hearts Club and Magical Mystery Tour I think it was their best work. The rest of there work was just a Rock and Roll dime a dozen sound.
Hands down that late '80s & a majority of the 90's golden era of Boom Bap Hip Hop was the sound of the 950 acomnpanied by the E-MU SP1200. What made the 950 so special was its dope bottom-heavy 12 bit sound that hasn't been matched to this day making it still one of the sought-after samplers. Even though a 950 plugin came out a few years ago it doesnt come close to the original.
I feel you.
Hanging tuff gang here!
Lmao!
My first sampler was an ESI2000 by E-MU. I still have it stored away. My first Akai sampler was an S3200XL, a big step up from the S950. However, the S950 and all samplers of that era definitely have me intrigued and I would like to play around with one of them to experiment and see what I can do to an 808 after sampling it in, or a drumloop after sampling it in. I bet the results would be different from anything I have previously experienced from the more modern samplers that came much later.
ESI2000 nice!..Emu use to make some dope gear.
Many people rate the S3200XL as the best sampler Akai ever produced. The S1100 is also highly touted.
It's so weird sometimes thinking about how some gear became legendary... knowing there was a time people were looking at people still using stuff like a SP1200 or S950 or MPC 60 or a 3000 like they were crazy. There was a point where these things were looked at like they were Rotary phones and everybody was trying to get rid of them on the cheap for the latest and greatest cept for the Studio Pro's they just kept using what worked for them and made hits with the old gear and made these things legendary. Go back like 15 nah not even go back like 10 years ago and no one cared about any of this stuff. People were trying to ditch these joints on Ebay all day. I remember back in like 2015 you could still grab a SP1200 for like $1,500 and even then that was steep. I still look at some of this old gear like the old turds they are. Those old machines were a PITA to use. Zip disk and f'd up floppys eating your beats. The crashing and the freezing mid project..long ass sample conversion times. Clunky loud buttons... This stuff the Model T Ford of beat making. I'd love to be in the room when one of those guys drops like 10Grand on a SP1200 just to get it home and realize it sucks and all the dope isht you know it for doing was actually a work around some producer came up with to make it not suck even though it still sucked.
Lmao!..Yeah some of the old pieces did have work arounds you had to do..You have to be careful spending too much on the old gear. Make sure you know why your getting it.
@@DyReckProductions haha man you know it's true... everybody that was there in those times knows the truth. Hauling a big ass box of of "Those 3.5 Disk" and have like 50 Disk in there and they were just for like one beat. Or running around looking for a damn SCSI cable no one on earth had not even Akai. Have you ever actually seen anyone use the SCSI port on those O.G. MPCs pre internet? JDilla probably couldn't even find a SCSI cable to use. I even remember when Akai sold "ZipDisk" upgrade kits for the MPC. 100mb of storage! I remember it well because I was first in line to order one and also first in line when I lost 100mb worth of beats and samples when that Zipdrive clickity clacked to death.We all know making beats with that O.G. gear was Russian roulette. There's a 50% chance you might finish a beat and a 50% chance you might lose it. Everybody has one of them stories.
@@187onasimp Yeah man!..Dang! Thats alot of beats..And your right.. nobody used or wanted to use the SCSI..They still don't LOL.
I wish i never sold my mpc 3000 tho...i had the black limited edition
My ASR 10 would say corrupt disk on a regular. And it was load as hell loading a beat and could take forever sometimes.I would have conversations with people while the beats were loading, lol
great video bro !!!!
Thanks bro!..I appreciate it..Keep doing your thing with showing us that gear..Love your channel!!
@@DyReckProductions 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💯💯💯💯💯
This definitely has a sound that's all it's own.
I just bought one off of reverb and paid grip for it, but I am happy with it!!!!! Filter sounds fantastic with a full body sound!!
Yup!..The filter is the best!
bro! you need a podcast. You had me feeling like Rocky. You'd make a great Product specialist
Like Rocky Lmao!..Thanks bro!
Agreed
@@_masterofnone_ Thanks!
Excellent video 😁
Thanks bro!
Good laughs. Thank you
Lol..No doubt bro!
My favourite sampler in my collection,
I feel you.
Yippee 👏🏾
Lol.
I still have mine. Love it still. It’s like Grandpa in the studio.
Lol I feel you.
Love your videos man. Anything interesting to do from Emu?
Ima see..Theirs alot of cool Emu products I didn't do yet.
I was just thinking about this thing. I can't be the only one that noticed dude from Isla Instruments, the ones that did the S2400, put up a picture of an S950 on his desk. Maybe they're cooking something up.
Oh wow got to check that out.
That be dope... maybe they'll wake another Dragon and make Akai drop a new S950?
Yeah bruh I saw that too. I actually hope he doesn’t do that. Because he marketed that 2400 like it was a1200 & it’s definitely not. I have both. Plus a S950. Some people just pull on the heartstrings of the hip hop community just to make a buck.
@@thadirtyabbott33 I can't speak to it. I've never owned an SP-1200 or an S2400. But I think both sound great. The S2400 also doesn't exactly seem like it gels with how I like making music so it wouldn't be for me even if I could afford it. But a new rack sampler with the S950 filter that I could control from my Digitakt is exactly the kind of thing I'd be into if I had the money. Heart strings pulled
@@CoolDougLove 🤣Salute to you homie for keeping it a 💯💪🏾! The S950 serves me well.... But I have a ASR-10 and a EPS 16+ also... If I didn't I would definitely look into either one of those two in the rackmount form. You wouldn't be disappointed at all King!👊🏾
S950 was the sampler of choice here in the UK as well for jungle producers. The 12-bit sample rate gave the samples a certain sheen, and they used it to timestretch the breakbeats
Oh ok dope!..I didn't know it was big with Jungle!
I just got an su700 two days ago and was timestretching breaks in it does a good job
@@jamesjr2550 Nice.
Did you forgot the biggest feature of the S-950?
It was the last Akai Sampler with analog Filters.
And that is THE reason why this machine sounds so gooood. :)
True!
I’ve had 3 900s now. Bought the first one in 96 for $500. Everything worked. Used it for several years til it just started shutting off on its own. Had to wait for awhile til it came back on. Bought another on eBay for $100 in 2005 maybe. Screen didn’t work but it definitely powered on. Tried fixing it with my limited electronic ability and messed up and had to toss it. Got another one last year and put in a new screen and usb drive. Had to use some parts from the previous one to get to work as some capacitors were damaged. But now I have a fully functional 900 again. Simply a great piece of gear.
Oh ok nice!
Nothing more to say but this machine is on so many BANGERS !!! GO HARD OR GO HOME AKAI TOOK THE CROWN AND DARED OTHER COMPANIES TO MATCH THEM, note how many other companies are in the top 5 of late 1980's and 1990's hip hop, Akai, Ensoniq, Kurzweil, Korg, Emu, Roland was on another level with the TR808 and TR909.
The 950 LEGENDARY TO THIS DAY !!!!!
yo whattttt I had no idea that MJ stumped for Akai Pro! Unreal.
Yup!
Wha ha haaaaappen waaaaaaaas!!
What up Craftmaster! Yes sir!!
My second sampler I bought with the alesis h16
Nice.
Mate had one. Pain in the arse to use compared to what we have nowadays but it sounded amazing.
Lol I feel you.
Dope Sampler
Yup.
@@DyReckProductions 🤝
1986, the year of my birth!
Dope year!
That beat king's documentary is legendary.
Yes sir!
That's Mathematics from Wu Tang with Ski
A1
Thank bro!
Ha ha love the lunch box story,
Lmao!
Hahahahahaha! I love it.
Thanks fam.
I've had a lot of gear, but this is the sampler I've held on to the longest. Bought it back in 2007 for $200 when people were giving this type of stuff away. I mostly used it to process samples and run it through other samplers cause the filter and character at the different sample rates is so good, but later on got to know it better. Setting it up to an MP or an SP with MIDI is dumb easy, you can see why so many people used it. The floppy drive is a downside but there are ways around that nowadays. I would argue that this machine defines the sound of late 80's/early 90's hip hop.
Yeah this was real big in the 80's and 90's..Responsible for alot of legendary songs.
Yamaha used nearly that exact branding for it's PSR-S7XX & 9XX models.
Oh wow ok.
Can you do one about the Yamaha TX16W
Oh ok..Ima put the Tx16w on the list.
That Timestretching shit was Revolutionary!
Yup!
But software timestretching/pitchshift was near the same year afaik… in 97 I was doing thinks with FT2 and FL/Acid was near that time, right?
yea! i spend hours in front of the pc downloading songs in napster and then i discover the chat program mirc ,tons of albums to be downloaded there ..
Oh ok..I later used Audio Galaxy..It had alot of hidden gems.
The Ensoniq ASR 10 was the best and the easiest to use. Still to this day
The ASR 10 is dope.
It's sooo expensive now.. so I went with EMU E6400 Ultra loaded too for 350.0 and it has a hard drive last Thursday.. I really wanted S950 though. I really do. Now I'm just stuck with the S950 plugin called RX950
The EMU E6400 is pretty dope. I was looking at one cause I wanted to burn samples onto a rom and use it on my xl7.
@@DyReckProductions that whole burning to a rom I hear is pia. Even updating the OS is a pain. I'm stuck on 4.10a OS. Something about downloading it to a disk from site that's not avail anymore as emu is gone. Or doing it via midi thru a site called emu tools that that's 50 50 chance of working. I'll stick with whatever I have. I I'm fine with 4.10a and it's fine. I sample my cd samples, vinyl, my synths. Layering on this? What a pain. I'm not sure u can layer sounds and do multi . I sample one shots so
An E-MU E6400 blows away an Akai S950....and pretty much any other Akai sampler for that matter. It's the absolute pinnacle of digital sampling. Something like 16 different quality filters and insane modulation capabilities. The E-MU EIV series defined the sound of drum & bass from around 1996 onward.....replacing the Akai S-series for most producers.
I was/am close to copping an S900… (with new backlight screen, USB/SD drive and updated operating system), I hear it’s almost the same machine as S950 just without the timestretching. I could progress a sample with the filter etc and then time stretch after on Logic Pro. The lunchbox analogy was a joke but it’s not dead accurate right? as the S900 is still Great machine. You almost make me not want it get it now haha. ‘What a way to start the day’
😂😂
LMAO!!!!!
Akai s950 and Emu sp-1200, the wonder twins
Lol Yup!
I guess the interviewer never heard of the TV show Dance Fever. Cause that's how i've heard about Akai. Where the winning dancing couple of that show would win an Akai Hifi Stereo Rack system.
Oh wow ok cool!
My s900. Radio shack floppy disks still working today 😂😂😂
Nice.
What had happened waaaaaas !
Makes a good beat tag lol
Lmao! No doubt fam!..Thats a good idea..Ima try that!
@@DyReckProductions
FACTS 😆
Timestretching… now imagine get control over timestretch dissengaged from pitchshift… that was Variphrase and what wha happened was… that and Acid/Fruity loops…
Lol.
@@DyReckProductions but people gets nuts with Kontakt… but it hasn’t legato mode! Melodyne? How weird is that tool… Did you made the vp9000 video? If not you should bro…
@@thelabby9998 Melodyne is like the ultimate cheat code..But I see what your saying.. the vp9000 and the Variphrase technology is dope!..So much control and manipulation over the sample.
2:34 imagine that dude sitting down with and MPC and making a banger
Lmao!
At 8:30 you wild...lmao 🤣
Lmao!
😆😆😆😆😆😆 Donnie from NKOTB lunchbox!
Yeah man.. Lmao!
The s950 is Premo's secret sauce for his sound not the MPC 60. His so wassup series exposed it for me lol
Yeah I been watching that series..It does expose some stuff lol.
What done happen waaaaaaaaasssssss!!!!!!!!
Yes sir!
I have so many questions like when you say 63 sec of sample time is that the total per sample track or total for the whole machine? I’m so confused on this. Either way it’s nothing short of amazing what these ppl did. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The whole machine bro!..A lot of limitations back then.
5 seconds of sampling time is enough if you know what your doing
@@valley_robot how one learn to know what to do?
@@jayonbaby you speed up the sound you are sampling to get a shorter sample then slow it down on the machine. Takes up less space
@@valley_robot thank you.
That miles davis story actually true? Cool AF if true
Yeah it's on youtube somewhere..In one of his 1980's interviews.
Yoo I got to wonder how old you is. I was born In 1984. I didn't have a TMNT lunchbox, I had a Denver the last Dinosaur lunchbox.😂
Ahh MAN!!! LOL!!!!
Pencil holder lmao!
Lmao!
Naw forget them turtles I wanted a transformers lunch box lol 👍🏾
Transformers was another level! Lol.
Mike McRoberts was the Dan of his day?
Lol..Something like that.
We have the E-MU 6400 ultra
The E-MU 6400 ultra is a workhorse!
@@DyReckProductions it has that crazy beat munging feature.
@@crazzylee Oh ok I got to check that out.
@@crazzylee Just checked it out your right..Thats pretty dope!
You have unreleased hip hop songs of 2pac and biggi?!
I had downloaded a bunch..There's a bunch online..Like his version of Queen B*tch..The one he wrote for lil kim..That joint was sick!!
@@DyReckProductions Thanks man! i will watch out for it
this is one sampler along with the S900 that will never wither into nothingness..
Yup!
“Click click, bee-yow, bang, booyaka!!
What am i do to ya?
it's somethin new to ya
Like screwin ya, all over my studi-ah
Ride on my mp-60 and let the s-950 squeeze your *******”
-Redman
Thats dope!
Bought a S-612 for $100 recently.
Oh ok wow..That's a legendary piece..That's a good buy no matter what condition its in.
I’m after one of them .. I recently bought a mirage rack mint $280
@@saren6538 Nice!
It's a shame Jordan never beat Bird in a playoff game. Jordan got swept... twice 😂🤣! ⛹♂🐦🏀🐐
Goes to show you that most of these anti-MPC SP1200 users were still on Akai's d^^^. Because they were using that SP1200 with Akai samplers. Akai was running s6^%^. Including those Ensoniq and Emu users who swear they never touched an MPC. Bow tf down to the MPC 2000 Classic. The best LEGACY MPC ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol!
The MPC 2000 classic ain't ish lol. You need a damn floppy disk with the OS to make it work.
I wonder how many lables got hit with cases because of producers sampling some stevie wonder song or some major soul hit on the 950 and not telling them before they published joints and sent them to every record station in the usa lmao
The trick was to flip it so no one knew where you got the sample from..If you were nice.
@@DyReckProductions Yeah we both know in the early days everyone was looping hits
@@jonathansoko1085 Puffy was notorious for looping Lol.
The S950 is definitely not their most legendary Akai sampler….its between the *MPC60 or MPC3000!* The S950 might be the most infamous sampler lol
Lol!