[JeanFi]

why do people want to put SD or usb adapters? !! use the original SCSI elements, it’s the best and the cheapest.

[JeanFi]

the s2000 is a good sampler with good D / A converters and is a powerful synthesizer. only it is not very user-friendly, you have to spend some time there. The + is that it can read midi files on DOS floppy disk, so it can be used in live without a computer. With extensive storage media such as an external hard drive (scsi) or a zip drive or cd-rom + the software akai mesa, it is a well-supplied workstation. You just have to like manipulating media, hacking a bit and saving memory. For the control of the machine, there are several possibilities: either on the machine itself having a good knowledge of it, or with panels (ctrlr, cubase pro), we still wait … or even with the midi-ox mixermap by converting commands from another synth to sysex messages received by the s2000; that’s what I’m working on right now: access virus A> midi-ox> akai s2000. In any case, it’s midi programming. To transfer sounds, a good solution is to edit the sounds on your computer and then transfer them with the software akai mesa via scsi. a control panel will hardly fulfill this function. The s2000 accepts the hxc floppy disk emulator quite well, I had mounted one and it worked but finally, I gave a mechanical diskette drive, I find that it is much more manageable on this machine because it can read akai format programs and midi files in DOS format. There it becomes more complicated to play with a USB key.

[JeanFi]

Hi

I discovered just CTRLR, I was looking for information on the creation of a panel for the S2000 and I came across this work: sincerely congratulations! For my part, the first panel gives good results and the second does not work. Personally I do not know LUA script by cons; I already made control panels for the Akai S2000 with the editor of the software “cubase”, so I know quite well the sysex mapping of this machine. I use this sampler a lot, that’s why I want to share my opinions about the design of a panel for this machine. There may not be much to refine on the first panel, or the second to make it more convenient.

First, sysex controllers for this machine work better in the context of “multi” than in the context of “single”. For my part, I ended up giving up the creation of single prog panels because the S2000 does not respond well. This is due to a weird thing in singles designs: it does not matter which program number or MIDI channel is programmed: the sampler arranges its programs as it has decided and the only reliable way to know which program corresponds to a Sysex message. is to watch with the wheel in what order it displays them: the first program displayed will be prog 00 in the message sysex even if it has been named prog N ° 3 ch 10, the second program displayed will be prog 01 even if called it prog N ° 5 ch 2 etc … from there I did not find the logic to make a reliable panel, it always ends up tearing the hair, more you have to be in “single edit” mode for that the movements happen in real time, which never makes us hear the entirety of a multitimbral configuration.
Akai had just solved these problems on this series by integrating the mode “multi”

Concretely only 1 byte changes between single and multi, just replace 28 by 42.
Example for the stereo volume:
Single: F0 47 00 28 48 n ° prog 00 00 17 00 01 00 lsb msb F7
Multi: F0 47 00 42 48 n ° prog 00 01 17 00 01 00 lsb msb F7

The messages of keygroups are exactly the same in single and multi except that a multi, they work in real time!

Then I think that it is not a good idea to focus on the loading of programs and samples via the computer: MESA, RECYCLE, MILLENNIUM and other do it well. For editing waves, it will be better to edit the samples on an external editor such as sound forge or other. I really think that on this machine, the really beneficial panel is the one that will control everything in the pages: multi and multi edit. nothing more. Although I recognize that if the sample edit and effect edit modes could be mapped, it will be great! will it work in real time? I have not tried yet.

Basically: the same panel “hello kity” without the file system section, the edition of wave, and the selection of samples in keygroup areas: all for multi instead of single and it’s going to start to be well. Too bad I do not know LUA because I have contributed much more to programming.
Can this job be restarted please?

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