You should do a part 2 of this video to go into more detail about using the 8 separate outputs and focus more on what is happening on your mixer levels, panning, eq and reverb settings.
I've been wondering the same thing honestly. I've also been having a tough time figuring out how to use a program without the samples copying to the next one. Dumb question but I'm a noob with the S1000.
Wow there is a lot of work involved with the S1000!! I use a Maschine MK3 and really appreciate the simplicity of sampling on it but also really really appreciate all classic gear and the benefits they still have.
Once used to the S1000, and especially back in the day, setting up samples and keymaps was done in a flash. The sound more than weighs up for the slightly increased set-up time compared to more modern drag and drop samplers.
One of the very rare useful tutorials on how to properly operate the S1000 sampler. Well done mate. If your S1000 has its original power supply please be informed that they tend to fail very often these days rendering the sampler totally useless due to capacitor leakage and putting out way more than 5 Volts destroying all logic components. Just saying.
Thanks for saying that! :) Yes, I'm aware of the failures in the power supply and it's pretty high on my "to do" list. I've even put in the order for components so it will be done! In the meantime I have my finger on the power button each time I turn it on and ready to turn it off if the display should go white. I think I'll catch it in time. I've done so in the past with other old electronics so let's hope I do it again IF it happens before I get to replace the caps :)
You should definitely get another power supply then or chack out the capacitors on it. Awesome machine the S1100. I once made a single release 100% on that machine. Vocals and all. The vocalist struggled a little bit with some latency while recording, but in whole it turned out ok. Think it was in '96.
Another awesome video, Espen! I remember when I was recording my first album, with my first band, back in about 1997. They had one of these in a rack, and at that time I had NO idea what it did! haha. This was a great explanation/example. Also: I LOVE the tune you did here! I think it deserves to be turned into an official release. Cheers!
Thanks Ethan! I'm happy you enjoyed it. I once made a complete single with the S1100 (S1000 with hard disk recording end inbuilt effects as standard) and we did everything with it, the vocals, instruments and effects. 100%. Worked very well, except for the singer who had to work with some latency in the vocal chain. Luckily it worked out alright! I must save that song idea then, so I can expand on it in the future. Thanks again my friend! :)
thanks, you are the best online professor my friend. I got s S3200 non xl ( I had a 3000 xl in the 90s and when I sampled my own 808, it robbed all the low end as if pressed the low cut button on my Mackie so i sold it and then refused to use any other sampler because I was a dumb squarehead), learning how to use it and later will do in my new SCI P 2002+. @@EspenKraft cheers edited, 626, maybe the best open hat since the 707. wow editing samples with the S1000 due to it´s second dial knob is way easier than in the following models. Strange they went backwards instead of upgrading. Love the twin dials! Maybe I should get a 1100 since is being told as the best ever Akai.
Thanks David! I agree, it's very good sounding and I've always loved it and I find it incredibly easy to use too. Not as crunchy as some, but it has a special sound :)
Thank you for bringing awesome hardware back, sometimes is scary to buy old stuff, specially with floppy units, your videos show that is not that hard.
Quite an old video, but just downloaded your drum samples and I plan to try them out with the tal sampler and exs24 in the mean time. I'm dead certain that clap-like snare (Snare 3) was used by Toshiki Kadomatsu on the song "Step Into the Light" from 1984.
Thank you so much for posting this. I learned things I never knew, and you saved me a lot of time ! .................. love the music at the end too, well done !
Using the MIDI input for the keygroups is something I never knew, it makes it so much easier... I have a S3000XL, but it works the same. Thanks again Espen ! :)
Thanks! That song is my track called "Saturday Night" from my album Those Days. You can find that album on Spotify, iTunes and many more as well as on Soundcloud. Just click on the links on my front banner here on UA-cam, or look it up on Spotify etc. :)
Thanks Matt! To map a drum sound or ANY sound on the S1000 is dead easy. I show some of it in this video. On the KGRP, SPAN and SMP menus under EDIT PROG is where this happen. With a MIDI keyboard hooked up it's simply chosing the right sample and its keygroup number. Under SPAN just press the lowest key and the highest key on the keyboard and you've set the map for that sample. The sample (keygroup) can itself be edited further- Likewise, many more samples and corresponding keygroups kan be placed out on the keys of the keyboard, or as in my case here, the pads on the 626 drum machine (which also send out MIDI key numbers to the S1000).
Thanks. I have a hardware only studio with plenty of synths all slave to an Akai ASQ10 sequencer. I want to buy my first hardware sampler and am torn between the S1000 and the S2000??? Just want it for drum/percussion sounds and vocal sounds. Once I have the sampler, where do I get the sounds with no PC?
I use to own the S2000 and it's great. I do prefer the S1000 though. The bigger svreen and some other features put it ahead imo. You could always sample your own (or others) synths. I do that all the time. There's always diskettes to be bought on the net with sounds on them. Or you could get a PC and download sounds from the net and transfer them to the S1000. Can be done in several intricate ways lol.
Love your vids thanks for providing this awesome content. Did you see there is a mod for the 626 to expand the sounds with lm1, Linn drum, Dmx and tr707 sounds?
Hei Espen, thanks again for another educational and inspirational video. I have a question: Since the drum sounds are already sample files on your computer, wouldn't it be possible to transfer them directly in digital format to your sampler? Or do you achieve a better "sound" by resampling them as shown in the video?
Thank you! You're quite right about the samples. A direct digital transfer would be lossless and theoretically the better option. This could be done by importing the samples into the S1000 by MIDI sample dump, by SCSI or other means of transfer. However, a audio sample session can sometimes be what you want if that means you could "beef" up the sounds in analog fashion going in. In this video I just do it for the sake of educational purposes, but I AM going to use the kit for future use. When sampling was done back in the day, most often it was done like in the video and when I sample analog synths it's also done like in the video.
Uh no. Not directly. But you can get an EPROM upgrade which gets it to read s3000xl file format. You can the use mesa to transfer files to a s3000xl formatted disk like a zipdisk and the s1000 should read that. 😁
Hi, thanks for the tutorial! It has been really usefull for me! Can i Ask you a question? How do you play simultaneously 2 programs (for example, drums prog 1 and bass prog 2). I can't do that! I have both programs, 2 midi channels (1 and 2) but can't assign them to the different programs....
Hello Espen, greetings from Sweden. What do you use for storage in your akai samplers? I used to fiddle around with synths and samplers in the 80s and 90s, one of them an akai s1000 kbd and Im thinking of staring again with a hardware sampler like the S3000, a new Prophet 5, Jupiter X and a Groove synthesis 3rd wave synth together with cubase.
I very rarely store samples these days. I sample, record, and delete most of the time. That's regardless of my sampler's having a floppy or floppy emulator or hard drive. I am putting together a live rig right now so I will have to store samples in the machine I will use live, but that will be a new sampler/keyboard. Cheers :)
@@EspenKraft You should. I really had luck that it didn't killed the digital parts. It did an video (but in German) where you can see how badly the caps leaked the sauce. I bought an Meanwell, with higher amp specs, but its still smaller than the original one.
hello, which meanwell did you get and how was the installation process? the only power supply i've replaced was in a PC and it was pretty straightforward in that.
COOL beat! Hope you're still active here. I need a cheap,but good old school sampler for gritty 12 bit drums and lofi samples. What other then zoom Sampletrak would you recomand? In the same price range..boss sp 202? Pleas help me out here. I will just sample thru or resample before moving samples into my mpc X for sequencing. So sequencers arent important.thanks
I'n very active thank you! :) If you need a 12 bit sampler you have several options. The Akai S900/950, The Roland S-50/S-10 and Some Ensoniqs and Emaxes/Emulator 2. These are all old-school samplers with that gritty sound, or hifi sound as these are very capable to sample inn high fidelity as well. Finding them very cheap can be tough though as they've started to rise in price and some of them is VERY expensive to get.
Hello, thank you for the videos. I am wondering if it is possible to use all 8 individual outputs for let's say 4 stereo samples and then also use the L/R outputs for an additional fifth stereo sample. We are assuming 7/8 are not used for the effect outputs and the effects are muted. Is this possible? Thanks again
You can only have stereo output operation from the mixed L/R. The individual outputs cannot be setup for that per se, but you can of course route individual mono programs out as you please. Check the manual.
Hi friend, I always accompany your videos and you are a real real producer, help me please, I have a mpx 2000xl and now I just bought a s1000 eustou from the s1000, is there any way I can import samples from the computer to him outside the sci and etc? ??? thank you
You could always try MIDI sample dump, but it'll take forever with longer samples. The easiest would be some floppy emulator or SCSI2SD solutions. Google that and you get tons of info!
Hi Espen! I recently bought an s1000 and was following your tutorial but my recorded samples waveform is just a straight line across the screen and I can't preview what I recorded. You know why this is happening?
That sounds like a good idea! I'll see what I can come up with. I'm in the sampling mood since it's fall where I love so staying indoors and making samples very cozy :)
thinking of resurrecting my s1000 ...my backlight needs an upgrade and probably my disk drive with Gotek drive...are you thinking of getting a disk drive replacement? Want to get some old school PPG or Synclavier sounds without owning any of those machines.
No, I don't like USB floppy emulators or any other emulator for that matter. I love floppies and I'd rather repair a faulty disk drive instead. On my Facebook page I posted a pic of some of my floppies just the other day and it's a polarizing issue.. ;-)
I get my locally from old gamers and people like that . They often have a lot of old Amiga floppies and stuff like that 2DD floppies that all the old samplers use.
Hello, I'm confused a bit by keygroups and the span section. You have every drum sound in a different keygroup and you also specify the note# that will trigger the sound via midi. Could you put them all in one keygroup and with different midi note numbers to get the same result? Or is there a reason to use 16 keygroups instead of one? Sorry if this question is stupid, I actually don't know that much about this sampler yet, which is why I'm here :)
You should read the manual then. Page 51. It's cleary outlined there and expanded from this video. Keygroups are the way in which samples are combined and parameters assigned so that they can be played from a keyboard. You can have up to 99 keygroups in a program. I use 16 here as that's the total number of keypads on the TR_626 drum machine. That way I can fire off 16 different samples, one from each keypad. Assigning keygroups to a keyboard would be the same if I was to fire off drum samples, one from each key on the keyboard. If I was to trigger another type of sound, like a bass, I would assigne more keys in that kegroup so I could play over more keys/notes on the keyboard as a bass sound with only one note would be quite boring. ;-)
@@EspenKraft aha! I get it! so in a keygroup that sound will play chromatically if assigned over a greater than one span. thanks! yes, I definitely plan to go through the manual to learn all this, but thanks for your reply. and wow that is great functionality!
Just bought a S1100 and a S950. I am quite curious about which one will i end keeping after comparing them. My goal is to sample and put my main drums in them, maybe loops too. Any insights?
Both are great so why not keep both? If I had to chose one I'd go with the 1000. All time classic sampler sound and wayyy faster to build up drum programs and loops. That said, the 900 is awesome and it's sound is more crunchy and vintage than the 1000 so I'd strongly suggest you keep both! :)
that waveform on the s1000 is so weird. I have a roland s-550 and it was so much better already. anyone knows if the s3000 is any better on that aspect ? I think it helps setting loop points and stuff like that.
I didn*t get what the AKAI does? You already had the samples as files spliced up. You could put them into the pad/sequencer directly. What does going through the AKAI do for the situation? Thanks for clarification anyone.
You should watch some of my other videos where I use old samplers. I love those and I only make my music this way, even in 2021. Always worked this way. ;-)
@@EspenKraft I will! Are there any that took a whole drum clip (clip for lack of a better word) and spliced them into various samples? Like a drum break that would be chopped up automatically? What was the old way of cutting up drums from an actual LP or recording?
Not sure I get what you ask, but a MIDI cable to the S1000 from the MPC MIDI out will give you the opportunity to trigger samples in your S1000 from the MPC.
I sure do. The S1100 was my main workhorse sampler in the early 90s and I did several albums with that as a hard disk recorder for vocals. The main difference is that the S1100 had direct-to-disc recording and THAT effects card that is unbelievably good. Without that card you could just get the S1000. Both are classics and very good sounding. Punchy and clean. Not as good as the 700/900 in terms of sound, but everything else is stellar.
@@EspenKraft would you think there is a point in getting a s1100 if i was going to get a s950? and if yes what are the differences!! at the moment i was thinking of a S950 and maybe a 3000XL for the functions effects any thoughts?
Sure, the S1100 is stereo for one thing. The S1100 with effect card is better than any S-series that came after it. Get a 950 and a S1100 and you're all set.
Hello friend, please help me, I've tried everything already. I can not put for example kick on the 1 key on the keyboard and snare on the 2 key on the keyboard or I can only play kick with pitch up or down or snare pitch up or down but type kick key 1 and snare key 2 do not please help And thank you for listening.
The Akai S1000 manual is very detailed on how to do this. Check that. If you follow my tutorial and instead of using a 626 use a keyboard, pressing a key on the keyboard where I press a button on the 626 (2 times), you should get it to work. Of course the samples themselves has to be inside the S1000 when you start keymapping/span.
I have no plans at the moment to do that as I don't use the S1000 that much for this these days. My more experimental electronica days are over and I make more streamlined synthpop now. I'll make a mental note of the request though :)
Let me get this straight... you have a drum machine, you sample from the drum machine into the Akai, you then play the samples you sampled from the drum machine back through the drum machine? lol i'm confused... why???? lol it makes it more confusing to understand how to use the akai to sample and to assign samples to programs...
Software Sampler are much better than hardware samplers. They’re easier to handle and they have much better sound quality. I can not understand people who still buy hardware sampler in the time where there are so many software sampler available.
It's not about sound quality or ease of use really. It's about a feeling, and the same sound we grew up with. It's called nostalgia. Me and others are after the same sound that was on the records of the music we listened to when we were young, made with this gear. No software sampler sounds like this and that's why we use this stuff. For me personally, software does not get my creative juices flowing at all so I could never make the same music with only software nor do I want to. Luckily lots of younger musicians also gets the bug of using old gear and that's great. The less assembly (read software) line music made the better... ;-)
ahahahhahahahaah. You are Crazy ! Softwere Sampler ? tiny sound my friend. AKAI S1000 Have the perfect sound quality, best converters in the World , the Big Sound. You Never but Never can have this sound with a Softwere Sampler. AKAI S1000 Is Unique. its character clear and transparent. AKAI S1000 sound so musical. so much better than NEW akais. When you talk in Softwere Samplers you dont no what you are Talking, its a Joke.
Hi friend, I always accompany your videos and you are a real real producer, help me please, I have a mpx 2000xl and now I just bought a s1000 eustou from the s1000, is there any way I can import samples from the computer to him outside the sci and etc? ??? thank you
The best guide for this sampler that i had seen
Thanks! :)
I hadn't realized how similar the S1000 is to the S2800 in terms of workflow. Very nice tutorial, and pretty helpful!
Thanks!
You should do a part 2 of this video to go into more detail about using the 8 separate outputs and focus more on what is happening on your mixer levels, panning, eq and reverb settings.
Thanks for the request! :)
I've been wondering the same thing honestly. I've also been having a tough time figuring out how to use a program without the samples copying to the next one. Dumb question but I'm a noob with the S1000.
that was rad dude! simple and clean. thanks for imparting lost technique
Thanks Greyhem! :)
Wow there is a lot of work involved with the S1000!! I use a Maschine MK3 and really appreciate the simplicity of sampling on it but also really really appreciate all classic gear and the benefits they still have.
Once used to the S1000, and especially back in the day, setting up samples and keymaps was done in a flash. The sound more than weighs up for the slightly increased set-up time compared to more modern drag and drop samplers.
Buy a AKAI S01 and sample with no systemdisc :) then sample in to your modern sampler🍻
Drums are so great. :)
Sweet! :)
This really helped me out on my S3200XL. Thanks :)
Thank you for your attention, it worked.
Great!
One of the very rare useful tutorials on how to properly operate the S1000 sampler. Well done mate. If your S1000 has its original power supply please be informed that they tend to fail very often these days rendering the sampler totally useless due to capacitor leakage and putting out way more than 5 Volts destroying all logic components. Just saying.
Thanks for saying that! :) Yes, I'm aware of the failures in the power supply and it's pretty high on my "to do" list. I've even put in the order for components so it will be done! In the meantime I have my finger on the power button each time I turn it on and ready to turn it off if the display should go white. I think I'll catch it in time. I've done so in the past with other old electronics so let's hope I do it again IF it happens before I get to replace the caps :)
Suspect the same is happening to my S1100. It has started making a rather loud noise after being on for a couple of mins and randomly reboots. :(
You should definitely get another power supply then or chack out the capacitors on it. Awesome machine the S1100. I once made a single release 100% on that machine. Vocals and all. The vocalist struggled a little bit with some latency while recording, but in whole it turned out ok. Think it was in '96.
Uh oh! 😖
Another awesome video, Espen! I remember when I was recording my first album, with my first band, back in about 1997. They had one of these in a rack, and at that time I had NO idea what it did! haha. This was a great explanation/example. Also: I LOVE the tune you did here! I think it deserves to be turned into an official release. Cheers!
Thanks Ethan! I'm happy you enjoyed it. I once made a complete single with the S1100 (S1000 with hard disk recording end inbuilt effects as standard) and we did everything with it, the vocals, instruments and effects. 100%. Worked very well, except for the singer who had to work with some latency in the vocal chain. Luckily it worked out alright!
I must save that song idea then, so I can expand on it in the future. Thanks again my friend! :)
Wow, amazing! I would have never thought that possible. Excellent, if you turn this jam into a release I'll be eager to hear it. All the best!
Thanks again Ethan. My best to you too! :)
thanks, you are the best online professor my friend. I got s S3200 non xl ( I had a 3000 xl in the 90s and when I sampled my own 808, it robbed all the low end as if pressed the low cut button on my Mackie so i sold it and then refused to use any other sampler because I was a dumb squarehead), learning how to use it and later will do in my new SCI P 2002+. @@EspenKraft cheers edited, 626, maybe the best open hat since the 707. wow editing samples with the S1000 due to it´s second dial knob is way easier than in the following models. Strange they went backwards instead of upgrading. Love the twin dials! Maybe I should get a 1100 since is being told as the best ever Akai.
S1000 is one of the better sounding old school samplers. Good video!
Thanks David! I agree, it's very good sounding and I've always loved it and I find it incredibly easy to use too. Not as crunchy as some, but it has a special sound :)
great video, and very cool original music at the end, thankyou
Cheers!
Awesome! i got an Akai #S5000 because of your videos!! best tutorials ever!! Thank you very much, greeting from L.A.
That is totally unreal! Very happy to have ignited an interest in the old Akais. Thanks Alfonso :)
Thank you for bringing awesome hardware back, sometimes is scary to buy old stuff, specially with floppy units, your videos show that is not that hard.
I love my S1100 very much :-)
Amazing help, please do more s1000 stuff
Thanks Espen. Love the live jam
Cheers! :D
Quite an old video, but just downloaded your drum samples and I plan to try them out with the tal sampler and exs24 in the mean time. I'm dead certain that clap-like snare (Snare 3) was used by Toshiki Kadomatsu on the song "Step Into the Light" from 1984.
Cheers! :D
Thank you so much for posting this. I learned things I never knew, and you saved me a lot of time ! .................. love the music at the end too, well done !
That's awesome! Thanks :)
Using the MIDI input for the keygroups is something I never knew, it makes it so much easier... I have a S3000XL, but it works the same. Thanks again Espen ! :)
My pleasure!
Very interesting and insightful
Thanks!
Awesome! What's the song in the background while you're talking?? It sounds amazing!
Thanks! That song is my track called "Saturday Night" from my album Those Days. You can find that album on Spotify, iTunes and many more as well as on Soundcloud. Just click on the links on my front banner here on UA-cam, or look it up on Spotify etc. :)
Brilliant tutorial. Thank You.
Thank you! I'm happy you liked it and found it useful :)
Very nice
Thanks! :)
Nice tutorial bro. Thank you !
NICE
Great video, thank you. I hear users complaining it's difficult to map drum sounds across a keyboard with the S1000?
Thanks Matt! To map a drum sound or ANY sound on the S1000 is dead easy. I show some of it in this video. On the KGRP, SPAN and SMP menus under EDIT PROG is where this happen. With a MIDI keyboard hooked up it's simply chosing the right sample and its keygroup number. Under SPAN just press the lowest key and the highest key on the keyboard and you've set the map for that sample. The sample (keygroup) can itself be edited further-
Likewise, many more samples and corresponding keygroups kan be placed out on the keys of the keyboard, or as in my case here, the pads on the 626 drum machine (which also send out MIDI key numbers to the S1000).
Thanks. I have a hardware only studio with plenty of synths all slave to an Akai ASQ10 sequencer. I want to buy my first hardware sampler and am torn between the S1000 and the S2000??? Just want it for drum/percussion sounds and vocal sounds. Once I have the sampler, where do I get the sounds with no PC?
I use to own the S2000 and it's great. I do prefer the S1000 though. The bigger svreen and some other features put it ahead imo. You could always sample your own (or others) synths. I do that all the time.
There's always diskettes to be bought on the net with sounds on them. Or you could get a PC and download sounds from the net and transfer them to the S1000. Can be done in several intricate ways lol.
There os a drum map keygroup that comes with the s1k. 🤔
@@mattcharlton8437 don't. Get both. ✌
Love your vids thanks for providing this awesome content. Did you see there is a mod for the 626 to expand the sounds with lm1, Linn drum, Dmx and tr707 sounds?
Thanks Felix! Yes, I know of this. Not something I'm interested in myself as I love the stock sounds of the 626.
Name of instrumental in the beginning?
That's the track I perform live at the end, and that's just me having some fun live and improvising.
Hei Espen, thanks again for another educational and inspirational video. I have a question: Since the drum sounds are already sample files on your computer, wouldn't it be possible to transfer them directly in digital format to your sampler? Or do you achieve a better "sound" by resampling them as shown in the video?
Thank you! You're quite right about the samples. A direct digital transfer would be lossless and theoretically the better option. This could be done by importing the samples into the S1000 by MIDI sample dump, by SCSI or other means of transfer.
However, a audio sample session can sometimes be what you want if that means you could "beef" up the sounds in analog fashion going in. In this video I just do it for the sake of educational purposes, but I AM going to use the kit for future use.
When sampling was done back in the day, most often it was done like in the video and when I sample analog synths it's also done like in the video.
Uh no. Not directly. But you can get an EPROM upgrade which gets it to read s3000xl file format. You can the use mesa to transfer files to a s3000xl formatted disk like a zipdisk and the s1000 should read that. 😁
It's does it with scsi.
Hi, thanks for the tutorial! It has been really usefull for me! Can i Ask you a question? How do you play simultaneously 2 programs (for example, drums prog 1 and bass prog 2). I can't do that! I have both programs, 2 midi channels (1 and 2) but can't assign them to the different programs....
NIce video - takker! OG hva er det slags møbel du har i studioet ditt? (det med skjerm på osv.)
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Hello Espen, greetings from Sweden.
What do you use for storage in your akai samplers?
I used to fiddle around with synths and samplers in the 80s and 90s, one of them an akai s1000 kbd and Im thinking of staring again with a hardware sampler like the S3000, a new Prophet 5, Jupiter X and a Groove synthesis 3rd wave synth together with cubase.
I very rarely store samples these days. I sample, record, and delete most of the time. That's regardless of my sampler's having a floppy or floppy emulator or hard drive. I am putting together a live rig right now so I will have to store samples in the machine I will use live, but that will be a new sampler/keyboard. Cheers :)
Just resurrected my S1000 after its almost exploded power supply. Replaced it with an Meanwell and thankfully it works again.
Good for you :) I know more people that has had to do that. I'll probably have to do it myself soon.
@@EspenKraft You should. I really had luck that it didn't killed the digital parts. It did an video (but in German) where you can see how badly the caps leaked the sauce. I bought an Meanwell, with higher amp specs, but its still smaller than the original one.
@@pauls-audiolabor I keep an eye on it, from time to time. Some day I will replace the power supply, but I think it has some time in it still ;-)
I have an S1100 in storage that hasn't been touched in ages. Now I'm getting paranoid...
hello, which meanwell did you get and how was the installation process? the only power supply i've replaced was in a PC and it was pretty straightforward in that.
Cool
COOL beat! Hope you're still active here. I need a cheap,but good old school sampler for gritty 12 bit drums and lofi samples. What other then zoom Sampletrak would you recomand? In the same price range..boss sp 202? Pleas help me out here. I will just sample thru or resample before moving samples into my mpc X for sequencing. So sequencers arent important.thanks
I'n very active thank you! :) If you need a 12 bit sampler you have several options. The Akai S900/950, The Roland S-50/S-10 and Some Ensoniqs and Emaxes/Emulator 2. These are all old-school samplers with that gritty sound, or hifi sound as these are very capable to sample inn high fidelity as well. Finding them very cheap can be tough though as they've started to rise in price and some of them is VERY expensive to get.
Hello, thank you for the videos. I am wondering if it is possible to use all 8 individual outputs for let's say 4 stereo samples and then also use the L/R outputs for an additional fifth stereo sample. We are assuming 7/8 are not used for the effect outputs and the effects are muted. Is this possible? Thanks again
You can only have stereo output operation from the mixed L/R. The individual outputs cannot be setup for that per se, but you can of course route individual mono programs out as you please. Check the manual.
Hi friend, I always accompany your videos and you are a real real producer, help me please, I have a mpx 2000xl and now I just bought a s1000 eustou from the s1000, is there any way I can import samples from the computer to him outside the sci and etc? ??? thank you
You could always try MIDI sample dump, but it'll take forever with longer samples. The easiest would be some floppy emulator or SCSI2SD solutions. Google that and you get tons of info!
Hi Espen! I recently bought an s1000 and was following your tutorial but my recorded samples waveform is just a straight line across the screen and I can't preview what I recorded. You know why this is happening?
Many things can be the cause of that. I suggest you read through the manual and follow it step by step to do some sampling to check first.
Which instrument is triggered with Mininova?
It's the MiniNova itself. A brass patch.
Hey Espen, I know it's an old video, but would you say the S5000 would be worth getting?
Not in my opinion. It has no character left, it's fine though. But you could just use a soft sampler in the computer.
@@EspenKraft thank you
Hi Espen, maybe you would like to do a tutorial/workflow Video for teh EMU Esi Series?!
That sounds like a good idea! I'll see what I can come up with. I'm in the sampling mood since it's fall where I love so staying indoors and making samples very cozy :)
I own a ESI2000 and ESI4000, especially those Z-Plane Filters are really amazing.
I agree. the filters on all EMU samplers has always been so warm and nice. The Akais are not that warm.
thinking of resurrecting my s1000 ...my backlight needs an upgrade and probably my disk drive with Gotek drive...are you thinking of getting a disk drive replacement? Want to get some old school PPG or Synclavier sounds without owning any of those machines.
No, I don't like USB floppy emulators or any other emulator for that matter. I love floppies and I'd rather repair a faulty disk drive instead. On my Facebook page I posted a pic of some of my floppies just the other day and it's a polarizing issue.. ;-)
@@EspenKraft a quick look on ebay seems floppies are harder to come by...let me know if you know any good source...
I get my locally from old gamers and people like that . They often have a lot of old Amiga floppies and stuff like that 2DD floppies that all the old samplers use.
Hello,
I'm confused a bit by keygroups and the span section. You have every drum sound in a different keygroup and you also specify the note# that will trigger the sound via midi. Could you put them all in one keygroup and with different midi note numbers to get the same result? Or is there a reason to use 16 keygroups instead of one? Sorry if this question is stupid, I actually don't know that much about this sampler yet, which is why I'm here :)
You should read the manual then. Page 51. It's cleary outlined there and expanded from this video. Keygroups are the way in which samples are combined and parameters assigned so that they can be played from a keyboard. You can have up to 99 keygroups in a program. I use 16 here as that's the total number of keypads on the TR_626 drum machine. That way I can fire off 16 different samples, one from each keypad. Assigning keygroups to a keyboard would be the same if I was to fire off drum samples, one from each key on the keyboard. If I was to trigger another type of sound, like a bass, I would assigne more keys in that kegroup so I could play over more keys/notes on the keyboard as a bass sound with only one note would be quite boring. ;-)
@@EspenKraft aha! I get it! so in a keygroup that sound will play chromatically if assigned over a greater than one span. thanks! yes, I definitely plan to go through the manual to learn all this, but thanks for your reply. and wow that is great functionality!
Just bought a S1100 and a S950. I am quite curious about which one will i end keeping after comparing them. My goal is to sample and put my main drums in them, maybe loops too. Any insights?
Both are great so why not keep both? If I had to chose one I'd go with the 1000. All time classic sampler sound and wayyy faster to build up drum programs and loops. That said, the 900 is awesome and it's sound is more crunchy and vintage than the 1000 so I'd strongly suggest you keep both! :)
hello, men have a ptx8 sample in good quality? greeting from chile
What is the Difference between the S1000 and the S1000pb? Thanks
PB=Playback. The S1000PB cannot sample itself. It can only play back loaded samples.
OK Thanks
Hi Espen, just out of curiosity, what is the maximum attack range of the S1000?
I have no idea.
@@EspenKraft What I mean is, at the envelope screen at 7:20, is the maximum number of the ADSR settings 99?
Yes, 99 is the maximum.
@@EspenKraft Thank you.
that waveform on the s1000 is so weird. I have a roland s-550 and it was so much better already. anyone knows if the s3000 is any better on that aspect ? I think it helps setting loop points and stuff like that.
Does the S1000 require a disk to boot up?
No.
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I didn*t get what the AKAI does? You already had the samples as files spliced up. You could put them into the pad/sequencer directly. What does going through the AKAI do for the situation? Thanks for clarification anyone.
It's the sampler that holds the sounds, the TR-626 just triggers them. This is how it's done. ;-)
@@EspenKraft thanks! its hard to remember that there was actually a machine needed that was this size to hold samples :D interesting anyway
You should watch some of my other videos where I use old samplers. I love those and I only make my music this way, even in 2021. Always worked this way. ;-)
@@EspenKraft I will! Are there any that took a whole drum clip (clip for lack of a better word) and spliced them into various samples? Like a drum break that would be chopped up automatically? What was the old way of cutting up drums from an actual LP or recording?
Pretty much, no. In the 80s you had to manually sample it in, and them manually chop it up and do it all yourself. That's the charm of it.
One more thing, please, what is the connection I need to make to get the sounds so s1000 for me to sequence in 2000cl mpc? thank you
Not sure I get what you ask, but a MIDI cable to the S1000 from the MPC MIDI out will give you the opportunity to trigger samples in your S1000 from the MPC.
do you know the difference between the s1000 and the s1100? looking at maybe buying one of the 2
I sure do. The S1100 was my main workhorse sampler in the early 90s and I did several albums with that as a hard disk recorder for vocals. The main difference is that the S1100 had direct-to-disc recording and THAT effects card that is unbelievably good. Without that card you could just get the S1000. Both are classics and very good sounding. Punchy and clean. Not as good as the 700/900 in terms of sound, but everything else is stellar.
@@EspenKraft would you think there is a point in getting a s1100 if i was going to get a s950? and if yes what are the differences!! at the moment i was thinking of a S950 and maybe a 3000XL for the functions effects any thoughts?
Sure, the S1100 is stereo for one thing. The S1100 with effect card is better than any S-series that came after it. Get a 950 and a S1100 and you're all set.
Hello friend, please help me, I've tried everything already. I can not put for example kick on the 1 key on the keyboard and snare on the 2 key on the keyboard or I can only play kick with pitch up or down or snare pitch up or down but type kick key 1 and snare key 2 do not please help And thank you for listening.
The Akai S1000 manual is very detailed on how to do this. Check that. If you follow my tutorial and instead of using a 626 use a keyboard, pressing a key on the keyboard where I press a button on the 626 (2 times), you should get it to work. Of course the samples themselves has to be inside the S1000 when you start keymapping/span.
Its the mono lisa.
Were these samples from a particular drum machine?
A little here and there. You can download these if you want to.
I notice some of the samples are at 44.7KHz as well as 44.1KHz. Bit odd? Thanks!
Did you do this just for kicks? 😆
HAHAHAHAHA HA.
hello friend could you also put a video how to do time streching I believe it will help several people...thankkkkkkkkkkkkkssssssss
I have no plans at the moment to do that as I don't use the S1000 that much for this these days. My more experimental electronica days are over and I make more streamlined synthpop now. I'll make a mental note of the request though :)
someone needs to make a modern editor that can remotely control any akai sampler via usb / midi / scsi
When you said Akai, i came.
Sweet! :)
Let me get this straight... you have a drum machine, you sample from the drum machine into the Akai, you then play the samples you sampled from the drum machine back through the drum machine? lol i'm confused... why???? lol it makes it more confusing to understand how to use the akai to sample and to assign samples to programs...
No, I'm triggering the samples off the Akai, with the drum machine. MIDI.
Software Sampler are much better than hardware samplers. They’re easier to handle and they have much better sound quality. I can not understand people who still buy hardware sampler in the time where there are so many software sampler available.
It's not about sound quality or ease of use really. It's about a feeling, and the same sound we grew up with. It's called nostalgia. Me and others are after the same sound that was on the records of the music we listened to when we were young, made with this gear. No software sampler sounds like this and that's why we use this stuff. For me personally, software does not get my creative juices flowing at all so I could never make the same music with only software nor do I want to. Luckily lots of younger musicians also gets the bug of using old gear and that's great. The less assembly (read software) line music made the better... ;-)
Try harder... you still have chance to understand ;- )
ahahahhahahahaah. You are Crazy ! Softwere Sampler ? tiny sound my friend. AKAI S1000 Have the perfect sound quality, best converters in the World , the Big Sound. You Never but Never can have this sound with a Softwere Sampler.
AKAI S1000 Is Unique. its character clear and transparent. AKAI S1000 sound so musical. so much better than NEW akais. When you talk in Softwere Samplers you dont no what you are Talking, its a Joke.
Hi friend, I always accompany your videos and you are a real real producer, help me please, I have a mpx 2000xl and now I just bought a s1000 eustou from the s1000, is there any way I can import samples from the computer to him outside the sci and etc? ??? thank you