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I use floppy disks for my Akai S2800 sampler :) Originally built around 1992 it still works (and sounds) great! Modding it to support USB is too expensive, and
by woudsma 5y ago
I use floppy disks for my Akai S2800 sampler :)
Originally built around 1992 it still works (and sounds) great!
Modding it to support USB is too expensive, and I quite enjoy some of the limitations it brings. You have to get creative for some things.
- jacquesm 5y agoCool! Those things are indestructible. Very nice hardware.
- notRobot 5y agoI used to use floppies for my Yamaha synth from the early 2000s, but I recently finally did the USB mod and I completely recommend it!
- dfxm12 5y agoI quite enjoy some of the limitations it brings. You have to get creative for some things. There really is something distinctive from the golden age of hip hop where you were limited sample size and really had to flip and combine many different samples to produce a beat. J Dilla came a little later, but he was certainly influenced by the sound and I think it should be no surprise that his Akai Sampler (MPC3000, which also had a 3.5" disk drive) would be included in the Smithsonian collection [0]. 0 - https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.139.1?destination=/explore/collection/search%3Fedan_q%3DDilla%26edan_local%3D1%26op%3DSearch https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.139.1?destination=/...
- C19is20 5y agoI somehow remember some way of getting them to be read on an atari.