Floppy drive on these final S-series units was never to be used for samples really, since even the base soldered 8MB RAM would take 6 floppies to fill. Upgradeable to 256MB and standard SCSI interface, 32 MIDI channels, and direct-disk recording and playback means this unit was meant for hard drive usage (today SCSI emulators). That said, it would be great to see a dive into the beefed-up synth engine on these, by far the best of the S-series, and should be in line with Emu E4 EOS, Yamaha A-series and Motif, and Korg Triton of same era, with many filter types and extensive mod matrix, plus easy OS with big display and 16 softkeys. Then you could certainly do a lot with just a single floppy full of tiny waveforms, like Adventure Kid Waveforms or the like.
Nice video (didn't watch the whole thing though but it made me turn my S5000 on again :) I'm looking for reasons not to sell it hahah anyway for a "reset" you don't need to turn it off and on again. Just go to load sample and in that menu it says clear memory. Nice track!
I have a yamaha a4k. Am on the fence between Akai 3kxl or the s5000. These 90s hardware samplers are creative gold imo.
thank you for the video. please do more on the Akai S5000,
Floppy drive on these final S-series units was never to be used for samples really, since even the base soldered 8MB RAM would take 6 floppies to fill. Upgradeable to 256MB and standard SCSI interface, 32 MIDI channels, and direct-disk recording and playback means this unit was meant for hard drive usage (today SCSI emulators).
That said, it would be great to see a dive into the beefed-up synth engine on these, by far the best of the S-series, and should be in line with Emu E4 EOS, Yamaha A-series and Motif, and Korg Triton of same era, with many filter types and extensive mod matrix, plus easy OS with big display and 16 softkeys. Then you could certainly do a lot with just a single floppy full of tiny waveforms, like Adventure Kid Waveforms or the like.
Nice video (didn't watch the whole thing though but it made me turn my S5000 on again :) I'm looking for reasons not to sell it hahah anyway for a "reset" you don't need to turn it off and on again. Just go to load sample and in that menu it says clear memory. Nice track!
thanks:)
good vid
Z8 vs S5000