Project
Name: S2000
People: dreamer
Description: sample mania
S2000
I recently got an Akai s2000 sampler.
Unfortunately it uses a proprietary format for its sample images and there is no OSS software to control it over midi.
This page serves mostly to document my findings and progress.
Overview
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Data Format
Midi
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Sysex
- http://lakai.sourceforge.net/docs/s2000_sysex.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/19990922014519/http://akai.com/akaipro/S2000SysEx.html
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To load up images on your sampler use the following sysex:
F0 47 00 34 48 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 F7 - select floppy drive
F0 47 00 34 48 07 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 F7 - clear memory and load entire volume
or
F0 47 00 34 48 06 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 F7 - load entire volume without clearing memory
Software
- Akaitools (perl code from '98: http://www.lsnl.jp/~ohsaki/software/akaitools/index.html)
- s2kdie (php script that doesn't seem to work: http://wiw.org/~meta/s2k.php - has sysex generator at bottom of page)
- lakai (abandonware for scsi interaction with the s2000: http://lakai.sourceforge.net/about.shtml )
- akaiutil (C program that brings 'ftp like access' to the S2000 and image files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/akaiutil/ )
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Eventually:
- Ctrlr: http://ctrlr.org/