The second track you made with the amen break was really nice. Not really due to the sampler but just because it was a good track. The sampler itself has more features than I'd have imagined. I bet if it had a more hands on interface like s612 it wouldn't be so bad...
I've posted a number of comments before where I marvel at your editing and music production skills, but man I want to sincerely thank you for making the funnest synth videos I've seen. I struggle with depression (and the resulting lack of motivation), but whenever I want a little pick-me-up that can also maybe get me motivated to screw around with music, I know I can always count on your channel, Florian. Even if I still can't get going, I know without a doubt I'm gonna at least feel better while I'm enjoying your work. I'm broke as shit, or else I'd be putting my money where my mouth is. It's priceless, what you deliver, but I'm at gear-selling levels of destitute right now (DFAM just sold ;-( ...Mo-32's next), so I hope you can at least really sense what I'm trying to say here. Thank you.
Hope one day you feel better! I have the same problems with depression and motivation, even for the smallest things. Try hypnosis videos on youtube for long time, this helps lot more then Clinics or psychiaters. But take the pills (anti depressiva) is also helpfull. And a lot vitamin D. This can maybe help you also. And good loud music.👍🎶
Your visual references are so unique. I love it. There's no one else on TH-cam who would feature a clip from Terry Gilliam's Brazil and a picture of Zig and Zag, in the same video.
I thought all the floppy video collection was a lot of work, finding them must have been challenging. In general all the tropes are well met. Professional show !
So many classic albums were made with this affordable sampler back in the day, one of my favourites is probs the Avalanche's Since I Left You . It's basically a S-3000XL with the cut down face plate and some other minor bits (They use the same mainboard) You need to fux with it more to get it's lo-fi goodness out of it, there are tricks to get the gritz out hahah
I had one of these at launch and it had a weird glitch with the jog wheel where numbers would change on their own. I took it back to the shop and the next one had the same issue... and the next one. In the end the shop gave me a Roland MT32 to make up for all the inconvenience. I eventually got one that worked and I just gave up on all the menu diving within about a week and sold it.
I got a S3200 a few years back to see if I could get THAT SOUND again. I forgot it took about 200 key clicks, massive neck and knee ache crouching down trying to read that screen, but hey, after 10 minutes I'd loaded up a drum kit!
The S2000 was from an era when touring acts would have multiple maxed out Akai’s in racks to cover all the parts. It was envisaged that you’d use the big brothers in the studio and take these smaller, cheaper units out on the road with you. If you were tempted to buy one for the much lower price to use as your main machine… well… caveat emptor and good luck! 😵💫 I still own and love my S3200XL, the filters and fx board are still awesome! It was my main “synth” sound design tool for over 20 years.
It is actually also possible to create a kind of "highpass filter" by putting the same sample, with both the phase and filter response inverted, in zone 2. One of these tricks that people used to squeeze a bit more functionality out of these machines :)
I got an S2000 for 5 dollars from a junk shop and when I got it home released why. You need an OS disk to actually use it. It took me a year to find one, then I started using it and realized it’s a nightmare. I thought it would be fun for getting into an “old school workflow” but there really was no upside to the pain it gave me. Still though, good to have that experience and realize why software samplers completely took over. Somebody could have told me but I wouldn’t have listened until I went through all that.
My dad had one when I was coming up in the 90s(I'm 38). It's was good for what it was designed to do. Now he has a Akai MPC 61, Roland juno, Yamaha Motif 6, Roland drum machine and so much more! I remember when we would make songs and he would record us on his ADAT with the vHS 8 ch tapes. So long ago, man those was good times! Me, myself only use MPC BEATS with A MPK249. The beats I have on my channel was made with FL studio with a cheap Casio. We both use Cubase to record tho, I might stay with MPC Beat and FL studio for now on! Dope channel! I love the content! BTW he still has Akai Sampler
I had a rack ASR 10 and before that the old Ensoniq sampling keyboard, which got me going in the early 1990's. I never want to work with that tiny little screen again... way too much pain on the eyes.
Your penchant for subtle visual artistry & detail is superb, you even synch the blinks light of the USB flash drive in your groove from this plaque stained discarded paperweight. To think that I was considering getting behind on my rent and bills to purchase one of these back in my foolish youth days. Reality dawned on me the following day!
If you put up a picture of this rack on social media with the rack itself it is happy with the way it looks and will no longer listen other gears judgement, it may well end up quite popular. eta: I have one of those USB fdd emulators on my Amiga 500. I am wondering if one would work on my DX7II FD....
Great content as ever, thanks-! when I was a Trainee Studio Sound Engineer I had to learn on the s2000. I hated it then, very uninspiring and fiddly.. I love how you mentioned the blender in that I recently saw an Akai MICROWAVE in a shop and asked what the sample rate was- They did not understand my joke.
The S2000's limitations is what made me get the best out it. I had the effects and 8 outs boards installed and managed to make my best ever tracks on it!
Had one 96. MESA editor was garbage never worked. Crap flippy encoder. Crashed Iomega Zip drives with click-of-death. Replaced with DSPFactory in-the-box studio. Sweet dreams.
You have used the fright word for the S2000. Boring! I had this once,before the soft samplers era. and it sounded MUCH better than Gigasampler thru an EsoSys audio interface.But the workflow...terrible!!!
@@AudioPilz there was no DAW back in the day, got mine in 1996, ran it via my Atari 1040st along with my synths, etc using midi, sync24, and cv/gates... plus tr606 tom trigger for the Juno 6 arpeggio. Sample, resample, sample again and sample some more, the kit is a tool and a slave to creativity, not the other way around. I find a lot of the comments below annoying as there are so many armchair experts on these threads who haven't got a clue!!
Nice timing. I'm re-archiving my KLF collection while watching this. I realized they credit using an Akai S900. I had always thought it was an S1000, but the liner notes tell me I'm wrong.
One day when I'm rich I'll mount server/networking gear and audio stuff in a rack and watch my visitors descend into the abyss as they try to figure out how any of that makes sense.
I often wondered what happened to 19" rack modules. Nowadays modules are desktop devices of all kinds and sizes. How do you want to integrate that in a live setup? Bring the 19" rack modules back!
@@AudioPilz I know. But where would you put all those crazy desktop boxes? A 19" rack with a good masterkeyboard looks a lot smoother and is a whole lot handier.
I wrote so much music on that thing with my Atari ST and Cubase. Still got it but it’s dead. Would love to resurrect it as it had some very particular sounds I’ve never been able to replicate.
Last year I bought an S2000 with CD-Rom-Drive in flawless condition for 100€. This is a really beautiful sounding sampler, I like it a lot. The menu diving is the actual problem which provides this AKAI from being a cult item. Soundwise it would have the potential for it.
I was always kinda wanting to get one of these back when they were sub-$100 on ebay but I'm glad I didn't with all that menu diving. Seems to me like the much further cut down S01 would be more fun because it's so much simpler.
So much respect for the OG producers making killer tracks with these obnoxious UX / workflow machines (and in parallel you for the amazing demo track as always). I've bought a Yamaha A4000 back then to jump into the world of sampling and gave up because it felt like a data entry job
This sampler changed my musical trajectory back in 1999. I had a SCSI interface that allowed direct editing and sample transfer, and had no idea about its limitations. To me it was pure inspiration. One of those Wile E Coyote "Don't look down" phenomena. And the chorus FX is crazy
I had an S2000 until one day it decided to pack and not even power on. It went to the dump and has been replaced with an EMU ESI4000 now, complete with SCSI2SD. It (the S2000) was functional, without being anything special. The Flash RAM is as rare as rocking horse poop too.
OK, you will not buy it today if you can afford something more streamlined but at the same time it still has all the functionality expected from a sampler today bar granular sampling / real time time stretching. In every other respect it can do it all. So if you can't afford anything else it is still a strong tool.
I have a 2800 and it’s my favorite machine i own the customization for each sample is amazing, and I love the sound it has my favorite sound out of anything I own and it is better than any software I’ve tried
Gotek disk drive is love. Pro tip: you can add a buzzer to it that clicks when the head position moves, imitating the stepper motor. Just in case you were missing that floppy disk sound. Which i know, ideally it's not something you want to have in a music instrument, but aren't you sometimes tempted to make the gear a little... worse? badder?
If you search your local Craig's List for 'Akai,' you are damn near guaranteed to find a listing for this, 35 days old, and the seller will almost assuredly take your ridiculous lowball offer.
Hi, I skipped immediately to 7:22 : Floppy Disk Sample Library Hose Music in Celebration of Awkward Loop Points and faulty file conversion ....💾btw Akai S2000 was my first Stereo Sampler , together with my good old Roland W-30....👨🏻🦳
@@AudioPilz Yes, but W-30 as first Keyboard with no external FX: I was frustrated of 2minutes Floppy Disk Loading for a crappy Piano Sound haha...far away from Prodigy ....Akai S2000 doesnt make it really better, its Sample Editing was also a little bit Esoteric because of the tiny display and menu diving.....too bad i sold both long time ago...
I like your reviews even i'm not familiar with 99% all of them. I just know them all from 90th advertisments, and really want to know if they were so much under or overrated. Keep up the great work!
Bad Gear is not only ironic, and hilarious but very informative, and hugely inspiring. thank you again man. if youtube had a download all button, we can have a forever copy of Florian doing sick shit with techno robots.
YES finally, I have been waiting for this! Thank you so much for the cool videos. The S2000 was my first sampler, but I upgraded it with a S3000XL (basically the same but with a big screen and some of the upgrades installed from factory)
I eagerly await the usual bump in views I get whenever you feature a bit of gear I own and have videos on. Haha. I'm going to send mine away to get modded at some point, but it's so big and heavy I can't face arranging the postage. Did you come across the weird bug in the main menu where if you go all the way to the bottom it all crashes and freezes up? Ridiculous.
@@AudioPilz I'll let you have fun finding that then. Haha. It's in the main menu - the settings page. If you go all the way down to the bottom of the list it just hangs. I only realised because there is some ancient video on here that talks about it. Bug still exists!!
This was my first piece of vintage gear I buy, 2 yrs ago (and 1 of the 5 audio tools of bad gear I own) not knowing ANYTHING about MIDI, LFOs, samples and what not... Thanks to this hard-to-operate sampler, I went down the rabbit Hole chasing for synths, vintage gear and even start my own home studio for producing music as a hobby. I found this sampler on my local marketplace for about US$40 and the previous owner even gave me for free a Sound Canvas 88, just because I was very thrilled. I personally Love my S2000, even tho it took me months learn how to use it properly
Had an S2000 for a while. Got it for free (about a year ago), changed a blown fuse, made an OS floppy, added some extra RAM (from my parts drawer), and while I like samplers (had a Yamaha A5000 for years), I couldn't get on with it really well, so I ended up selling it after a month or two.
The Vintage Gear Gods will punish you with out remorse! Even the sweet anime floppy montage won't appease the Gods. You're doom to never find inexpensive Roland gear hence forth.
I love vintage gear and own a number of older rackmount synths like Proteus, TX81Z, M3R, 2080 etc. But I've never felt the need to venture into using these old samplers. I honestly don't see the point when literally any DAW nowadays IS a sampler itself.
My first sampler, still got two of these with 16 megawords of ram and EB16 fx on the other one. Much faster to edit with the jog wheel than MESA editor when you get hang of it, you can choose all the keygroups of a program at once.. Also the filter trick already mentioned gives you hipass without filterboards (halves the polyphony though). Another nice trick: generate a sine tone, say 20 khz. Load it up the machine on the machine and pitch bend / play higher octaves.. what's that, FM? Lots of cool tricks. Weighs a ton. Also, ZuluSCSI helps alot (bus powered scsi adapter that eats sd cards). Also, the sampler can sample at 22.05kHz, sounds a bit grittier then. Amen break does not sound the same through Ableton Live. There used to be ReCycle! software that could map, create keygroups and name the program you made for the sampler over MIDI data dump (with samples) or SMDI SCSI dump.
Dig the hipster👍 19” racks are fab, mine is made from two IKEA lack tables fixed appropriately ( see TH-cam) and it’s on castors and it is slowly filling with some classic gear Alesis D4-Emu 9090-mam freebase 383-zoom 1201 etc I think I’d hold out for an Akai S3000 👍☢️
Wow I found one of these for sale not to long ago for $40 USD in mint condition. I had an S3000XL back in 1997 to join my MPC2000. Nowadays I have the S6000 which is a beast. I got that for cheap about 5 years ago for $230 USD. The S2000 I think is useless nowadays in my opinion.
I would like to know what you think about the AKAI VX90 synth from 1986. Its bad but good...but mainly pretty bad! I have one that was a gift from a techno producer who used to use it with an Amiga. Its a rack version of an akai synth keyboard that looks like it was built by washing machine manufacturers.
That's more like it; I loved the floppy disk song, bravo. Now racks are on the table time for the Roland V-Synth XT, which imho will still look (and sound) great on social media after 20+ years. Cheerio.
There is still a place for hardware samplers--even rack mount ones. I own a Kurzweil K2600rs and still love it. But there isn't really much to recommend this one. You'd have to be a real masochist to sample and loop on this instead of just using Kontakt. And, at the end of the day, it wouldn't be much cheaper or sound much better. Great instrument in it's day, now, sadly, obsolete as better solutions exist.
i got a Cd3000XL and MPC X. the MPC X is very extended with software options (all sort of plugins from tube vca's, mpc60 and mpc3000 emulator, distortion, echo, reverb, analog synths that emulate tb-303, 6 drum modelers that can emute tr-808/909, etc), tyou download melotron plugin , seaming 192kHz and 24bit sound. sounds very polished and solid, even on headphones. .... with touchscreen.
The second track you made with the amen break was really nice. Not really due to the sampler but just because it was a good track. The sampler itself has more features than I'd have imagined. I bet if it had a more hands on interface like s612 it wouldn't be so bad...
Thanks!!!
I've posted a number of comments before where I marvel at your editing and music production skills, but man I want to sincerely thank you for making the funnest synth videos I've seen. I struggle with depression (and the resulting lack of motivation), but whenever I want a little pick-me-up that can also maybe get me motivated to screw around with music, I know I can always count on your channel, Florian. Even if I still can't get going, I know without a doubt I'm gonna at least feel better while I'm enjoying your work. I'm broke as shit, or else I'd be putting my money where my mouth is. It's priceless, what you deliver, but I'm at gear-selling levels of destitute right now (DFAM just sold ;-( ...Mo-32's next), so I hope you can at least really sense what I'm trying to say here. Thank you.
I feel you!!!
hi , i m fighting like u with that fucking depression ,, these videos are welcome,, have a great life!! guiom
Hang in there, Music is love :)
Hope one day you feel better! I have the same problems with depression and motivation, even for the smallest things. Try hypnosis videos on youtube for long time, this helps lot more then Clinics or psychiaters. But take the pills (anti depressiva) is also helpfull. And a lot vitamin D. This can maybe help you also. And good loud music.👍🎶
He edits his own videos, I thought he’d keep a gimp editor in a trunk under the stairs!
Your visual references are so unique. I love it.
There's no one else on TH-cam who would feature a clip from Terry Gilliam's Brazil and a picture of Zig and Zag, in the same video.
Thank you!!!
I agree. A sonic and visual treat every time
I thought all the floppy video collection was a lot of work, finding them must have been challenging. In general all the tropes are well met. Professional show !
DAW aka Tamagochi brought tears to my eyes, and the video had barely started! :'D
Bad Gear FTW!
I bought one under the impression that I'd like the workflow. Boy was I wrong.
There's a workflow?;)
Yeah. It reminds you why in the 90s we used to wish for a computer with a sampler in it!
The menu diving in this thing has defeated me. Now the only purpose of the S2000 in my setup is to make other small gear sit 9 cm higher.
You found a use for it!!!
this comment is gold. (:
@@serial_sequence2k I used to have test program, west program, lest program - you get the idea :)
@@serial_sequence2k 😂 NEW SAMPLE, MEW SAMPLE, LEW SAMPLE, KEW SAMPLE
You still have it ? And...Use it ?!
So many classic albums were made with this affordable sampler back in the day, one of my favourites is probs the Avalanche's Since I Left You . It's basically a S-3000XL with the cut down face plate and some other minor bits (They use the same mainboard) You need to fux with it more to get it's lo-fi goodness out of it, there are tricks to get the gritz out hahah
Yup, you really need to tickle that one a bit
Exactly
Polyend Tracker showed up again, that’s how you know he thinks its actually not bad gear :p
Trackers and Amen break go together well;)
Most (if not all) of his videos show gear that was previously featured in an episode. :D
and what is this orange thing inserted into the floppy disk compartment? Thank you
@@AlekseiDroganov it's a usb thumb drive
@@Jamslerr that's just his way of telling his fans how much he despises them.
the best Akai ever made.
You forgot about the 'resample' function which does actually add a bit of dirt!
i kinda like the S2000, hey!
(was my first sampler, so it has a special place)
(:
That's what uses to do. Half then resample half. Was good for trash drums
This episode was a real banger!
Please review more samplers, I like how you sample the voice and demo the sampler's feature like this while narrating!
Thank you!!! More samplers to come!!!
i 100% agree with this statement
Audiopilz: *slaps roof of YT channel*
Full Tracks, Extended Jams, Sample Packs: www.patreon.com/audiopilz
Thanks 🙏 for all your awesome videos god bless you and yours much peace ✌️ love ❤️ unity and respect ✊!!!
I had one of these at launch and it had a weird glitch with the jog wheel where numbers would change on their own. I took it back to the shop and the next one had the same issue... and the next one. In the end the shop gave me a Roland MT32 to make up for all the inconvenience. I eventually got one that worked and I just gave up on all the menu diving within about a week and sold it.
The jog dial is a major PITA
That MT-32 was the real prize. Those go for mad money now, enough that people are starting to make alternatives for it.
I got a S3200 a few years back to see if I could get THAT SOUND again. I forgot it took about 200 key clicks, massive neck and knee ache crouching down trying to read that screen, but hey, after 10 minutes I'd loaded up a drum kit!
Thanks 🙏 for all your awesome videos god bless you and yours much peace ✌️ love ❤️ unity and respect ✊!!!
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I had to learn this the hard way, by buying a ESI-4000 and then realizing that I need to spend more money for RAM and SCSI drives...
The S2000 was from an era when touring acts would have multiple maxed out Akai’s in racks to cover all the parts. It was envisaged that you’d use the big brothers in the studio and take these smaller, cheaper units out on the road with you. If you were tempted to buy one for the much lower price to use as your main machine… well… caveat emptor and good luck! 😵💫 I still own and love my S3200XL, the filters and fx board are still awesome! It was my main “synth” sound design tool for over 20 years.
Nice, you got the FX board!
It is actually also possible to create a kind of "highpass filter" by putting the same sample, with both the phase and filter response inverted, in zone 2.
One of these tricks that people used to squeeze a bit more functionality out of these machines :)
gotta try that some time!
Nice technique!!!
I got an S2000 for 5 dollars from a junk shop and when I got it home released why. You need an OS disk to actually use it. It took me a year to find one, then I started using it and realized it’s a nightmare. I thought it would be fun for getting into an “old school workflow” but there really was no upside to the pain it gave me. Still though, good to have that experience and realize why software samplers completely took over. Somebody could have told me but I wouldn’t have listened until I went through all that.
Hated the workflow so much when I actually still HAD to use it ;)
My dad had one when I was coming up in the 90s(I'm 38). It's was good for what it was designed to do. Now he has a Akai MPC 61, Roland juno, Yamaha Motif 6, Roland drum machine and so much more!
I remember when we would make songs and he would record us on his ADAT with the vHS 8 ch tapes. So long ago, man those was good times!
Me, myself only use MPC BEATS with A MPK249. The beats I have on my channel was made with FL studio with a cheap Casio. We both use Cubase to record tho, I might stay with MPC Beat and FL studio for now on!
Dope channel! I love the content! BTW he still has Akai Sampler
Thank you so much!!!
Your insight about products now being designed to be social media friendly is spot on, imo.
Yeah, I did some rack gear in the early days of the channel and it just didn't work when it came to aspect ratios and stuff
I had a rack ASR 10 and before that the old Ensoniq sampling keyboard, which got me going in the early 1990's. I never want to work with that tiny little screen again... way too much pain on the eyes.
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Your penchant for subtle visual artistry & detail is superb, you even synch the blinks light of the USB flash drive in your groove from this plaque stained discarded paperweight.
To think that I was considering getting behind on my rent and bills to purchase one of these back in my foolish youth days. Reality dawned on me the following day!
Thank you!!!
If you put up a picture of this rack on social media with the rack itself it is happy with the way it looks and will no longer listen other gears judgement, it may well end up quite popular.
eta: I have one of those USB fdd emulators on my Amiga 500. I am wondering if one would work on my DX7II FD....
Great content as ever, thanks-! when I was a Trainee Studio Sound Engineer I had to learn on the s2000. I hated it then, very uninspiring and fiddly.. I love how you mentioned the blender in that I recently saw an Akai MICROWAVE in a shop and asked what the sample rate was- They did not understand my joke.
Had plenty of old Akais at my former job at the theatre - nobody wanted to work with them;)
Boring, expensive & complicated to use.
The S2000's limitations is what made me get the best out it. I had the effects and 8 outs boards installed and managed to make my best ever tracks on it!
Nice!!!
Had one 96. MESA editor was garbage never worked. Crap flippy encoder. Crashed Iomega Zip drives with click-of-death. Replaced with DSPFactory in-the-box studio. Sweet dreams.
ive been thinking about getting an s2000 to go alongside my s3000xl cuz ive seen so many for low prices, it seems like a great backup to have around
You have used the fright word for the S2000. Boring! I had this once,before the soft samplers era. and it sounded MUCH better than Gigasampler thru an EsoSys audio interface.But the workflow...terrible!!!
Bought one for £20, sold for £50. That's good gear in my view!
Stonks!!!
This video is unwatchable. The pacing and cadence of the narration, with the constant forced "meme" edits is headache-inducing.
Thank you for the feedback
In its time, it was a great Sampler. If you knew what you were doing this was a quality piece of kit. I spent 1000s of hours using mine.
Yeah, it becomes second nature once you invest enough time
@@AudioPilz there was no DAW back in the day, got mine in 1996, ran it via my Atari 1040st along with my synths, etc using midi, sync24, and cv/gates... plus tr606 tom trigger for the Juno 6 arpeggio. Sample, resample, sample again and sample some more, the kit is a tool and a slave to creativity, not the other way around. I find a lot of the comments below annoying as there are so many armchair experts on these threads who haven't got a clue!!
*snerks* Tamagotchi as a DAW.... Kind of hoping you snuck in a Dinky Dino and 1st generation Digi-device now...
Nice timing. I'm re-archiving my KLF collection while watching this. I realized they credit using an Akai S900. I had always thought it was an S1000, but the liner notes tell me I'm wrong.
Big KLF fan here!!!
Ahhh yes, those S P A C E i-fied Ancients of Mu- m... _Honk!_
One day when I'm rich I'll mount server/networking gear and audio stuff in a rack and watch my visitors descend into the abyss as they try to figure out how any of that makes sense.
😂😂😂
Happy to make you laugh, this marks one to your hundreds by now :)
Speaking of the Matrix 1000… when can we expect that one? Always wanted one, but the prices in the last 5 years are ridiculous.
I often wondered what happened to 19" rack modules. Nowadays modules are desktop devices of all kinds and sizes. How do you want to integrate that in a live setup? Bring the 19" rack modules back!
As I said, it just doesn't look good on Insta;)
@@AudioPilz I know. But where would you put all those crazy desktop boxes? A 19" rack with a good masterkeyboard looks a lot smoother and is a whole lot handier.
@@doordedeur I'll probably get a big flat flight case so that everything is held in position.
@@AudioPilz But there's nothing sexier than a sexy rack full of dope rack modules :(
Old School Gears are the Best sounding. I have old machines.
Nice!!!
I owned this in the 90s when I was in an industrial band and I thought it was the best thing in the world =D
Certainly nice for a little reduced bandwidth fun!!!
I wrote so much music on that thing with my Atari ST and Cubase. Still got it but it’s dead. Would love to resurrect it as it had some very particular sounds I’ve never been able to replicate.
I think a lot of people needed this video today.
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hello, we all love your videos,, thanks !! go on !! salutations sinceres
Thank you so much!!!
Last year I bought an S2000 with CD-Rom-Drive in flawless condition for 100€. This is a really beautiful sounding sampler, I like it a lot. The menu diving is the actual problem which provides this AKAI from being a cult item. Soundwise it would have the potential for it.
Yeah, the menu diving can be quite a buzzkill
Loved using the s950, s1000 and xl3000 but found the 2000 just annoying & daunting.
I was always kinda wanting to get one of these back when they were sub-$100 on ebay but I'm glad I didn't with all that menu diving. Seems to me like the much further cut down S01 would be more fun because it's so much simpler.
Is the jog/shuttle wheel on this one actually gold-colored, or was the unit just a heavy smoker? I don't judge.
So much respect for the OG producers making killer tracks with these obnoxious UX / workflow machines (and in parallel you for the amazing demo track as always). I've bought a Yamaha A4000 back then to jump into the world of sampling and gave up because it felt like a data entry job
By the time you made your sounds it was whatever for a groove lol
Akai samplers actually had good UI + workflow which is why they were so popular
Packs punch like his muscle nephew the mpc 2000; a decorated veteran and guest of honour in my rack
I remember seeing this at NAMM in the 90s and thinking how clunky it would be to try to get any use out of it.
It's like filing a tax report;)
Works very well with Mesa 2 on an old g3 powerbook r7nning os9. ❤
This sampler changed my musical trajectory back in 1999. I had a SCSI interface that allowed direct editing and sample transfer, and had no idea about its limitations. To me it was pure inspiration. One of those Wile E Coyote "Don't look down" phenomena. And the chorus FX is crazy
It was next to rubbish after i had a 900 and 950 which i unfortunately sold back in the day for 50 quid each
Not sure who does the editing and overall production of this channel, but it is of the highest caliber....up there with Captain Disillusion's channel.
Thank you so much! That's actually me;)
These would be pretty cool if they didn’t have a user interface barely a step above the Apollo space capsule.
I had an S2000 until one day it decided to pack and not even power on. It went to the dump and has been replaced with an EMU ESI4000 now, complete with SCSI2SD. It (the S2000) was functional, without being anything special. The Flash RAM is as rare as rocking horse poop too.
Yeah, I didn't find any flash RAM either
@@AudioPilz Flash ROM! It's pretty handy and there's a lot of storage but you can't delete files without formatting the whole thing.
OK, you will not buy it today if you can afford something more streamlined but at the same time it still has all the functionality expected from a sampler today bar granular sampling / real time time stretching. In every other respect it can do it all. So if you can't afford anything else it is still a strong tool.
I have a 2800 and it’s my favorite machine i own the customization for each sample is amazing, and I love the sound it has my favorite sound out of anything I own and it is better than any software I’ve tried
Nice! gotta try the 2.8K
I'm calling it now.
This channel is a pay op to help inflate the price of generally unwanted synth gear.
I LOVE THE OLD AKAI RACK SAMPLERS THEY MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS
Include the Akai MPC 500 in the bad equipment list as well
I love these old Akai samplers. I also love the finale song, it's a bop!
Thanks!!!
Don’t know what you’re talking about. This was a highly functional beast that created many classics.
Gotek disk drive is love.
Pro tip: you can add a buzzer to it that clicks when the head position moves, imitating the stepper motor. Just in case you were missing that floppy disk sound. Which i know, ideally it's not something you want to have in a music instrument, but aren't you sometimes tempted to make the gear a little... worse? badder?
Goes well with the colours of your oxygen midi keyboard
If you search your local Craig's List for 'Akai,' you are damn near guaranteed to find a listing for this, 35 days old, and the seller will almost assuredly take your ridiculous lowball offer.
Yeah, these are heavy and take up a lot of space;)
Hi, I skipped immediately to 7:22 : Floppy Disk Sample Library Hose Music in Celebration of Awkward Loop Points and faulty file conversion ....💾btw Akai S2000 was my first Stereo Sampler , together with my good old Roland W-30....👨🏻🦳
Nice, the W30. Prodigy vibes!!!
@@AudioPilz Yes, but W-30 as first Keyboard with no external FX: I was frustrated of 2minutes Floppy Disk Loading for a crappy Piano Sound haha...far away from Prodigy ....Akai S2000 doesnt make it really better, its Sample Editing was also a little bit Esoteric because of the tiny
display and menu diving.....too bad i sold both long time ago...
I like your reviews even i'm not familiar with 99% all of them. I just know them all from 90th advertisments, and really want to know if they were so much under or overrated. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Stick around!
I am literally too stupid to ever use these kinds of samplers
I thought the exact same thing (until I had to use them;)
Once again, Florian's hellishly intense life as a content master has produced another gem.. thank God he didn't drown in that menu.
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Oh my gosh the anime diskette montage, so cool T_T
Thank you!!!
Bad Gear is not only ironic, and hilarious but very informative, and hugely inspiring. thank you again man. if youtube had a download all button, we can have a forever copy of Florian doing sick shit with techno robots.
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What sh I had one of these back in the day. Anyone remember Vienna soundfont?
YES finally, I have been waiting for this! Thank you so much for the cool videos. The S2000 was my first sampler, but I upgraded it with a S3000XL (basically the same but with a big screen and some of the upgrades installed from factory)
Thanks for watching!!!
I eagerly await the usual bump in views I get whenever you feature a bit of gear I own and have videos on. Haha. I'm going to send mine away to get modded at some point, but it's so big and heavy I can't face arranging the postage. Did you come across the weird bug in the main menu where if you go all the way to the bottom it all crashes and freezes up? Ridiculous.
Lol. No crashes here...
@@AudioPilz I'll let you have fun finding that then. Haha. It's in the main menu - the settings page. If you go all the way down to the bottom of the list it just hangs. I only realised because there is some ancient video on here that talks about it. Bug still exists!!
@@AudioPilz You inspired me. I've sent off my S2000 today to get modded after putting it off for a year.
You always find a way to make Bad Gear sound good!
WoW, that thing really does sound so 90's!!!!!D
This was my first piece of vintage gear I buy, 2 yrs ago (and 1 of the 5 audio tools of bad gear I own) not knowing ANYTHING about MIDI, LFOs, samples and what not... Thanks to this hard-to-operate sampler, I went down the rabbit Hole chasing for synths, vintage gear and even start my own home studio for producing music as a hobby.
I found this sampler on my local marketplace for about US$40 and the previous owner even gave me for free a Sound Canvas 88, just because I was very thrilled. I personally Love my S2000, even tho it took me months learn how to use it properly
The S2K is quite a rabbit hole. Love the sound canvas - great strings!!!
Every week you take gear considered bad and toss out aome awesome tracks.
I bought an Akai S01 once. Talking about boring.....
Had an S2000 for a while. Got it for free (about a year ago), changed a blown fuse, made an OS floppy, added some extra RAM (from my parts drawer), and while I like samplers (had a Yamaha A5000 for years), I couldn't get on with it really well, so I ended up selling it after a month or two.
damn where can i hear that first beat, its TOO goood!!!
Will you ever review the toilet paper tube sounding mic you talk through?
Lol. Another great review.
Just bought a new lavalier - hope you like the results;)
I shopped this against the Emu ESI-32. I chose the ESI. It also needs a Bad Gear episode.
Yeah these two went head to head in the "cheap" sampler wars of the mid 90s. Both around 1000 pounds, which was still quite a chunk of money.
The Vintage Gear Gods will punish you with out remorse! Even the sweet anime floppy montage won't appease the Gods. You're doom to never find inexpensive Roland gear hence forth.
I REPENT!!!
Dude, I love your channel and am also in Austria.
But I have to tell you, English Pronunciation 101......what are "wintage" and "walues"? Please......
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"Dental plaque paint job" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wonderful like always+ all that oldskoolnes
I love vintage gear and own a number of older rackmount synths like Proteus, TX81Z, M3R, 2080 etc. But I've never felt the need to venture into using these old samplers. I honestly don't see the point when literally any DAW nowadays IS a sampler itself.
Didn't age so well!!!
My first sampler, still got two of these with 16 megawords of ram and EB16 fx on the other one. Much faster to edit with the jog wheel than MESA editor when you get hang of it, you can choose all the keygroups of a program at once.. Also the filter trick already mentioned gives you hipass without filterboards (halves the polyphony though). Another nice trick: generate a sine tone, say 20 khz. Load it up the machine on the machine and pitch bend / play higher octaves.. what's that, FM? Lots of cool tricks. Weighs a ton. Also, ZuluSCSI helps alot (bus powered scsi adapter that eats sd cards). Also, the sampler can sample at 22.05kHz, sounds a bit grittier then. Amen break does not sound the same through Ableton Live. There used to be ReCycle! software that could map, create keygroups and name the program you made for the sampler over MIDI data dump (with samples) or SMDI SCSI dump.
Nice technique!
"..an MPD16 controller free of charge 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨"
I was not ready for that. LOL 🤣🤣🤣
Neither was I;)
Dig the hipster👍 19” racks are fab, mine is made from two IKEA lack tables fixed appropriately ( see TH-cam) and it’s on castors and it is slowly filling with some classic gear Alesis D4-Emu 9090-mam freebase 383-zoom 1201 etc I think I’d hold out for an Akai S3000 👍☢️
Nice, just watched a video on this!
If you think the s2000 is boring just wait till you look at the s20
Wow I found one of these for sale not to long ago for $40 USD in mint condition. I had an S3000XL back in 1997 to join my MPC2000. Nowadays I have the S6000 which is a beast. I got that for cheap about 5 years ago for $230 USD. The S2000 I think is useless nowadays in my opinion.
It's not the most convenient Akai
Naw bruh them beats you made was bad gear, the machine is just fine, its YOU!!
True that!
I would like to know what you think about the AKAI VX90 synth from 1986. Its bad but good...but mainly pretty bad! I have one that was a gift from a techno producer who used to use it with an Amiga. Its a rack version of an akai synth keyboard that looks like it was built by washing machine manufacturers.
I'd LOVE to have one of these. Great suggestion, thanks!
Is that a keyboard-delete on a Jup 8? For the love all that is good and just in the world, why?!
I was triggered by that one as well;)
Thanks for save my life. Good Man!!!
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That's more like it; I loved the floppy disk song, bravo. Now racks are on the table time for the Roland V-Synth XT, which imho will still look (and sound) great on social media after 20+ years. Cheerio.
Thanks!!! V-Synth is absolutely insta-worthy;)
There is still a place for hardware samplers--even rack mount ones. I own a Kurzweil K2600rs and still love it. But there isn't really much to recommend this one. You'd have to be a real masochist to sample and loop on this instead of just using Kontakt. And, at the end of the day, it wouldn't be much cheaper or sound much better.
Great instrument in it's day, now, sadly, obsolete as better solutions exist.
Yeah, it is indeed a pain to operate
i got a Cd3000XL and MPC X.
the MPC X is very extended with software options (all sort of plugins from tube vca's, mpc60 and mpc3000 emulator, distortion, echo, reverb, analog synths that emulate tb-303, 6 drum modelers that can emute tr-808/909, etc), tyou download melotron plugin , seaming 192kHz and 24bit sound.
sounds very polished and solid, even on headphones. .... with touchscreen.
Really need to get into modern MPCs - good stuff!!!
Not using the og floppy disk?
That’s cheating big time!
You are missing some of the flavor.
Floppy’s make the sound more vintage
Best Regards
In my defense, I bought it that way;)