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The S950 is an upgraded S900 increasing the sampling rate to 48kHz and the internal RAM capacity to 2.25MB (unlike the S900 its stock 750KB RAM was upgradable), and adding such functions as cross-fade looping, and pre-trigger recording. It offers 12 bit sampling and 8 voice polyphony. Compared to the S900 the disk drive now takes both HD and DD disks. The S950 also adds a time-stretch function, an optional trigger-to-MIDI interface the ME35T, and a 13-pin Voice output plug (the same that is on the S612) for external processing of it's voices. The frontpanel and controls are identical to the S900.
Sad to report I had just bought an S950, for a reasonable price, but when the seller went to retrieve it from storage, someone he knows had taken the RAM upgrade and SCSI card out of it, so the sale fell through. Shame, but it's got me doubled down on my S1000 so I...
...II+, E-MU Emax I SE/HD, SCI Prophet 2002, Dynacord ADD One + Drive, Korg DSS-1, E-MU E5000, Ensoniq ASR-10R, Akai S950, Akai S1000, Akai S1100, Akai S3000XL, Akai MPC-2500, Roland S-550, Roland S-750 Turbo, Yamaha TX16W All in all, hardware samplers in 2023 are fun. We have no freaking idea how expensive these things were...
The beauty of the Roland is that it’s 30 quid for a USB video capture adapter that plugs straight into your S series sampler and thus it becomes a window on your existing monitor. Alas I’ve not yet figured out how to emulate the mouse, so you do have an extra physical mouse kicking around,...
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