AKAI S900 (for parts or repair) with rare ASK-90 expansion
The Akai S900 is a 8-voice, 12-bit sampler module. A classic bit of music technology history, thousands of classic records fro the 80s and 90s was composed on this thing! It featured a maximum of seconds of sample time at its highest sampling rate of 40kHz, or even more with sampling rates as low as 7.5kHz. Memory is set at 750KB. Editing consisted of Play, Record, Edit sample, Edit program, MIDI, Utility, Disk, and Master - accessible by pressing one of the eight buttons along the bottom of the good-sized display screen. To the right of these buttons is a numeric keypad, cursor control buttons, and a playback button (plays back a sample after recording it). To the right of these are the control wheel, mic and line inputs, input and output level knobs, and trigger input for triggering recording start or play-back.. Editing on the S900 features many of the normal sample operations such as looping, and even crossfade looping in Version 2.0 of the operating system. There is also a few analog-like editing parameters including a filter controlled by its own ADSR envelope generator, an additional ADSR controlling amplitude, and an LFO. There is also a function called "Warp" which is a very basic envelope controlling pitch, causing the sound to slide up to pitch. Velocity switching of two samples was also available.The S900 is equipped with a mix out, a left/right pair, plus eight separate voice outputs (one for each voice). This unit comes with the hard-to-find ASK90 (a dedicated drum trigger interface which allowed each of the 8 samples to be triggered individually).. The sound is remarkably cool. Really makes kicks, snares, and hats chunky and fat sounding. But it's even better on bass sounds. Sample a VST bass note and the difference is incredible vs the super clean and lifeless VST. This unit doesn't boot up, thing is this is so old so it could be a simple thing inside the machine that needs tweaking. Maybe a loose wire? Could be simple, but I don't have the time sadly. Grab a deal:-) Read More