so, a friend of mine is getting rid of his akai s1000 sampler. is there a way to back up the samples to cd, or a hard drive (using mac compatible programs)?
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Re: Akai S1000
only if you have an older Mac with SCSI - or hook another SCSI drive up to it and copy teh drive. older versions of Toast would let you do a SCSI copy of the drive as a disc image or burn directly to CD (you could make your own Akai sample CD's), i want to say it was toast 3 or 4... but you'd need an OS 9 Mac with a SCSI CD burner (either internal or external). i keep an old 9600 around for just that purpose (and to use Peak & Recycle back and forth between an E-Mu E6400). you can use apps like CDXtract or Chicken Systems Translator to read the drive/disc.dubold wrote:so, a friend of mine is getting rid of his akai s1000 sampler. is there a way to back up the samples to cd, or a hard drive (using mac compatible programs)?
thanks,
d
if you don't have one, pre-G3 SCSI equipped Macs are mega dirt cheap, sometimes near to the point of being free. essential to have with SCSI samplers. modern Macs seem to have forsaken any semblance of SCSI compatibility, i don't think OS X and SCSI get along.
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Re: Akai S1000
I use hot-swappable SCSI discs on two of my OS X Macs, no prob. OS X loves SCSI and has SCSI drivers built-in.blakbeltjonez wrote:modern Macs seem to have forsaken any semblance of SCSI compatibility, i don't think OS X and SCSI get along.
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I have an old Akai S20. It was a fun little box, but man the floppy thing and memory limitation just killed me. I still have it and have been kicking around the idea of just using it as an extra sound bank for my electric drum kit but I need to find an easier way to get samples on it- preferably from PC to floppy, then to the Akai.
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I have a better idea. Buy a slightly older, used laptop (Mac or PC). Pick up a copy of Native Instrument's Intakt and an inexpensive FW or usb audio/MIDI interface. Now you have a powerful sampler with plenty of storage space, expansion, and the ability to backup to CDR. Also, Intakt will function just like Recycle, so you can get really creative with your loop-based samples.
Just my $.02
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Just my $.02
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