![]() It’s likely I can get the HxC SD Card Floppy Drive Emulator to work with the Akai S2000 no problem. It sounds great and it’s actually very easy to program. On a positive note, the Akai S2000 has a lot of great functionality. ( Or like I mentioned a way to properly burn Akai Disks ).Ģ. I do wish I could find a working CD-Rom drive that works, but perhaps later I’ll find one. For now, Akaidisk and Win98 with either a zip or MO drive connected to the Akai S2000 works fantastic. The key is to find a workflow and make it happen. Heck, working with my Roland Fantom XR Sampler Rack isn’t all that faster especially when using the software. I find goofing around with the technical problems I mentioned previously to be more time consuming. Many people say it’s a pain or very slow, but when I want a particular set of samples mapped on the keyboard within the S2000, it’s pretty fast. I do not find working with the Akai S2000 menus to be all that difficult at all. My computer will simply not work with the Akai S2000.ġ. I have tried all sorts of SCSI Drive and cable combinations with zero luck. Why the Akai S2000 is timing out every time, I am not sure. Akai Mesa PC on Win98 does see my Akai S2000 but whenever I try to access it by creating a Program for example, I get the “Time Out” error. I am aware that it may be easy to fry or pop the SCSI related fuse in the Akai S2000, but since my Zip and MO drives work via SCSI I feel that is not the case. Millennium just crashes whenever I open the program. Mesa actually “sees” my S2000 Sampler, but I then get “Time Out” messages whenever I try to do anything. Akai Mesa for PC and Chicken Systems Millennium which I’ve heard great things about do not work at all on my Windows 98 computer. I do not have a Mac and my other computers are using Windows 7. So far, I have been unable to get any software editor to work with the Akai S2000 on Windows 98. In fact it’s the only way that works for me at the moment. Akaidisk works perfectly and it’s currently my preferred choice of getting sounds into the Akai S2000. I run Akaidisk off a Windows 98 computer that I have for working with older samplers and synthesizers. You are limited to importing 1.44MB worth of samples at a time, but that is fine for me as I primarily work with muli-samples rather than loop based phrase samples. This program works really well and I found it to be quite fast. The only way I have found to effectively and quickly import WAV files into the Akai S2000 is with a program called Akaidisk. ( Note that I am well aware of changing the HD SCSI under Global to access the various external drives ). So my thinking is that Nero or something messes up the CD-Rom Copies after burning. So the Akai S2000 does see and attempt to access the Nero burned Akai CD-Rom, BUT it always displays an AKAI SCSI Disk not found error. I have been burning Akai S2000 CD-Roms with Nero and none of them work with the Akai S2000 even though they work with ESC ( Extreme Sampler Converter ) software on my Windows 7 computer. However, it is possible the CD-Roms drives do work, BUT, the Akai Disks are not readable. I have 4 different CD-Rom drives of various ages and none of them seem to work. I haven’t had any success getting any SCSI external CD-Rom Drive to work with the Akai S2000 yet. This is not a problem, but it would have been nice to be able to boot up with an MO disk like I can with my Roland S-760. ![]() I have not been able to successfully create a boot disk with the a zip or MO disk yet and still must rely on the Floppy Drive to boot up OS Version 2. I can format, load, and save samples, programs, etc. I have been successful at attaching an Iomega 100MB Zip Drive and a Fujitsu 230MB MO drive to the Akai S2000 without any problems. SCSI External Drives and Media for the Akai S2000 ![]() Below are some thoughts about the Akai S2000 based on my experience over the past few days working with it. ![]() I’ve actually never owned an Akai Sampler before and I understand the S2000 is likely to be last on everyone’s list of samplers to buy, but I thought I’d give it a shot. ![]() Last weekend I picked up a used Akai S2000 Sampler for $20 bucks and thought I’d have some fun with it. ![]()
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