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RE: Greetings!
2014-02-20 by <xxxdna@...>
Installation is easy. You just need a 50 pin scsi ribbon cable and a 4 pin molex y cable (power cable for floppy hd).. you have to shave off the divet on the scsi cable with an exacto because the akai's has it the opposite way around for some reason.
with the CF card you can use translator software to write akai images or files to load into your sampler.. but if you go the internal cf route you'll need a scsi pci card and an old XP machine to speak to the sampler.. it is a lot of work!
in the end it is probably more of a pain to do all this to use it but oh well ;) personally i only use mine for playback because sampling/editing on it is a nightmare (imo - i'm from an emu sampler background). however the FX sound amazing, especially the reverb. there is a video on youtube of someone using recycle 2.0 to transfer samples & automatically do the key/group assignments which is extremely useful if you have a computer with scsi that you can work with the akai.
hope you get the cf going - it definitely makes these things a bit easier to use