## What about a virtual Akai sampler?

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Original topic on PlanetZ: https://forums.scopeusers.com/viewtopic.php?t=26540

#### What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:43 am
by Shroomz~>
I was thinking that a virtual Akai sampler would be awsome. Think of the possibilities!!!

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:24 am
by katano
lol, are you on shroomz?

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:57 am
by iSiStOy
and why not an E-mu sampler ?

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:23 am
by katano
I used to have an EMU ESI-32, that was fun... well, sort of

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#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:28 pm
by iSiStOy
Regarding these E-mu samplers, I still have my "little beast" at home:
E4XT with RFX32. It's kind of a real challenge to program such a deep OS into scope though...

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:44 pm
by ChampionSound

> Shroomz~> wrote:I was thinking that a virtual Akai sampler would be awsome. Think of the possibilities!!!

I'm rather thinking of the headaches I got creating programs and auditioning samples with the STS-X000.
So thanks, but no thanks

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:01 pm
by Shroomz~>
You guys are takin' this thread too seriously..

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:10 pm
by ChampionSound
Nah, we all understood it was a joke (at least I did), but we just want to respond to it. Hence the smilies

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:16 am
by wayne
I'm gonna think of an awesome response to this thread. You just wait

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:49 am
by chriskorff
Actually...
I'd quite like a virtual S950, capable of making the same 'orrible time-stretching sounds, and with shedloads of built-in 'grot'!
IIRC, the SDS Drum Sampler has a really useful bit-reduction and sample-rate reduction function, which I use to get a 'shit 80s sampler' sound on drums sometimes. The disadvantage of it, though, is that because it's designed for drums, it only does one-shot sample playback, meaning you can't adjust note endings (that and the fact it only behaves with 16/44.1 Wav samples).
And yes, I also realise that this thread was originally a joke!
PS. Has anyone tried the freeware time-stretching software called Akaizer? It's fucking brilliant! Just load up a half-second vocal snippet and time stretch it by a factor of about 10. Instant metallic stretched vocal sound!

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:25 pm
by Shroomz~>
Hey Chris,
Although this was initially a joke thread, I'm actually planning to make a new akai sample based device for Scope based on an idea I've been mulling over for a while. It's capabilities will only be limited to what I can squeeze onto a single dsp.
I haven't checked out Akaizer yet, but I will do. Nice one!
cheers,
Mark

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:13 pm
by Shroomz~>

> iSiStOy wrote:Regarding these E-mu samplers, I still have my "little beast" at home:
> E4XT with RFX32. It's kind of a real challenge to program such a deep OS into scope though...

We're big fans of emu samplers here! Won't be trying to make one for Scope though...

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:11 pm
by Tau
I had an S950 once. A friend of mine borrowed it like 10 years ago, and that's the last I've seen of it - but I really liked its sound, and the dozens of discs I sampled off satellite TV I only miss it every once in a while, though...
Unfortunately, the links in the AKAIZER blog seem to be down.

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:08 am
by chriskorff
Wotcha!
I found a copy of it on my PC - I'll upload it here as a Zip file. It's a very simple .exe file that doesn't require any installation - you just run it, point it in the direction of the WAV you want to stretch, and use the 'cycle length' box to tell it how much you want to stretch it by, as a percentage (1000 being ten times longer than the original, of course).
I've also made a demo MP3 as an example of what it does.
Cheers!
Chris

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#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:58 am
by Tau
Thanks Chris! Who'd have thought something this nice would come out of this thread?
Cool mp3 too! Old Skool!
T

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:00 am
by chriskorff
Hello mate,
Yep, it's an awesome little app isn't it! There are a few other parameters that, to be honest, I've never bothered playing with (something to do with emulating the cycle-based time-stretching that the S950 does). But yeah, it nails that oldskool time-stretch perfectly.
RE my S950 emulation idea... though I've never used/owned an S950 myself, friends of mine who have tell me that there was a way to do this time-stretching business in real-time, with the mod wheel on an attached keyboard. Would this be possible in Scopeworld?
Cheers!
Chris

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:49 am
by Shroomz~>
Thanks!
There's real-time time-stretching available on the STS-5000 IIRC.

#### Re: What about a virtual Akai sampler?

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:22 am
by iSiStOy
I remember I tried hard adapting a preset for the Emu E4 found on the web, that does a similar sound.
It had CC control on patchcords but it was not really satisfying at the time.
Great little soft than this Akaizer. Thanks!