Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

I emailed to my tech who owns the Prommer up to now.
He remembers 512K chips worked w/ the Prommer,- also for AKAI S-1000.
I doesn�t work w/ S-1100 because it uses 1 MB chips



Am 29.07.2011 00:44, schrieb Les Lambert:
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> Glad a Prommer worked for you, maybe they fixed that problem after I 
> got mine, I was very keen, had somebody fetch one of the first 
> available to the UK by hand. Ouch.
> $700 for the unit. Later they got cheap, think the next was 200, then 
> the last 120.
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> The EPROMs then were 2716, 2732, 2764,27128 all of which I used for 
> sounds without issue, and software was gradually getting onto bigger 
> chips, which I did use for archiving the contents of the Prommer 
> without any trouble too.
> It might be that the non-companded mode may have had more than one 
> revision.
> I probably tried copying anything we had at the hire company , the 
> PCM70 rev3 was a candidate, probably the 224 was doing the later 
> programmes by 1987, but gave up after a couple of months getting 
> nowhere with any of the software copying, borrowed a Stagg from my AMS 
> Neve contact which was great. These days I get my friend who still 
> does this for a living to do them for me.
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> There was also a tendancy for the sampler section to lose the ability 
> to sample at either 24 or 16KHz, which seemed to creep up on the unit, 
> each one gradually failing . The third hasn't had a test yet, so far 
> it's just checked my old copies, many of which have reverted to random 
> data.
> As you can imagine is tedious, no copies 24 years later except on a 
> master DAT which is gone after being copied onto CDR, which as we are 
> discovering often fail too. There was a Mitsubishi X80 1/4in master 
> copy, but those are mostly in the landfill now.
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> Heading for the Landfill, decent name for an over 60's band huh?
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