kkonkkrete wrote:
picked up a used Akai S-5000 sampler. It has balanced audio in and out
and sounds great. Old-school gear built for studios. The trick is that
it can record long samples (whole tracks) direct to a SCSI-1 drive,
not limited by RAM size like some samplers.
Pros: You might get one for a couple hundred bucks. Uses DOS and .wav
files as the disk and sample format. You can of course use it as a
sampler too, either in the traditional sense or to roll in a complete
backing track on cue via MIDI.
Cons: You have to learn a few control menus before you can record a
sample (recording is easy just not obvious). It's not easy to play
back a sample if you don't have some kind of MIDI source (any keyboard
or button box will do). The external SCSI-1 drive it uses makes a lot
of noise but mostly that's a fan I could replace. I have a SCSI card
in my PC with the right connector but I do have to power things down
and move the HD before I can copy files to it (you can't have the AKAI
and the PC on the same SCSI bus at the same time). There is a USB
interface available which is said to solve that problem or
you can get an SD card thingie for it (I think).
# Sampling System: 16 bit linear
# Sampling Rate: 44.1kHz / 48kHz
# 18-bit A-D converters with 64 x oversampling 5th order Delta Sigma.
# 20-bit D-A converters with 128 x oversampling Delta Sigma on all
outputs.
Samples available on request.
> aliasing problems and some kind of digital noise...This might not be for everybody but it certainly is an alternative. I
> How do you do digital recordings of your Serge gear?...
> I'm looking for quality over quantity (I
> don't need more than 2 stereo channels)...
picked up a used Akai S-5000 sampler. It has balanced audio in and out
and sounds great. Old-school gear built for studios. The trick is that
it can record long samples (whole tracks) direct to a SCSI-1 drive,
not limited by RAM size like some samplers.
Pros: You might get one for a couple hundred bucks. Uses DOS and .wav
files as the disk and sample format. You can of course use it as a
sampler too, either in the traditional sense or to roll in a complete
backing track on cue via MIDI.
Cons: You have to learn a few control menus before you can record a
sample (recording is easy just not obvious). It's not easy to play
back a sample if you don't have some kind of MIDI source (any keyboard
or button box will do). The external SCSI-1 drive it uses makes a lot
of noise but mostly that's a fan I could replace. I have a SCSI card
in my PC with the right connector but I do have to power things down
and move the HD before I can copy files to it (you can't have the AKAI
and the PC on the same SCSI bus at the same time). There is a USB
interface available which is said to solve that problem or
you can get an SD card thingie for it (I think).
# Sampling System: 16 bit linear
# Sampling Rate: 44.1kHz / 48kHz
# 18-bit A-D converters with 64 x oversampling 5th order Delta Sigma.
# 20-bit D-A converters with 128 x oversampling Delta Sigma on all
outputs.
Samples available on request.