Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi! I'm new to this group. In fact, I'm new to Yahoo
Groups full stop.

I have just acquired a second-hand S1000 (10Mb RAM +
SCSI) on e-Bay. Having previously owned an S2000 and
still owning an S2800i (upgraded to 32Mb + external
HD), I am quite familiar with Akai samplers. However,
I still have a few questions, which I hope some of you
will be able to answer. Maybe I should have posted
them as separate message?

1. Is it still possible to get hold of cursor/data
knobs (the external plastic knob, that is)?

2. I downloaded OS 4.40 from the Archive section of
Akai's support pages. I followed all the instructions,
but the sampler tells me that it doesn\ufffdt recognise the
disc format. Even the Disk --> Load --> OS routine
doesn\ufffdt work. The sampler says there is no OS on the
disc. I tried an Akai-formatted disc and a
DOS-formatted disc just in case, but nothing worked.
Both discs were high density discs. 

3. Is it necessary to remove the SCSI board to fit an
internal hard drive? If so, is it still possible to
get hold of blanking plates to close the hole left on
the rear panel? 

4. Where exactly does the internal disc go? 
What are the maximum (physical) dimensions possible
for a HD? 

5. Does the SCSI HD have to have a 68-pin connector? 

6. Is it possible to normalise samples after
recording? 

7. When transferring samples from my S2800i over SCSI
('standard' setting), the samples are renamed MIDI 1,
MIDI 2, etc. Is there a way to retain the samples\ufffd
original names? 

8. Is it possible to assign samples to keys below C0
on the S1000? I use an 88-note master keyboard.

Regards,

Gilles
Kensworth, Beds. UK


		
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