Comments on: Multi Sampling synths in Akai S-3200XL / S3000XL / S3000 Part 2

By: kolakube123

kolakube123 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 04:11:47 +0000

Im an old man with music tech these days. Got into it in 1990 and sort of
lost touch with it in 1995 ish. Just dont understand the way its all done
these days with DAWs etc. Not saying there bad, just a total contrast to
what I remember. Yep, I had an Atari, and an amiga with a tracker program
too. Between me and a mate we owned at some point or other S1000 S3000
S3200XL along with various analogue synths. Im so pleased your on here are
im totally at home with how you do things.

By: kolakube123

kolakube123 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:52:58 +0000

Nightmares on Wax?? Are they still going. Used to have a huge rave tune
back in the day called aftermath. Think that was just before the S3000’s
days. I used to love home studios. Mixing desks and racks of equipment.
DAWs just dont excite me the same way. I feel getting exited about what you
do when creating anything from a painting to music (whatever the genre) is
a key element to achieving your best. Just noticed, your quite young to be
doing all this “the real” way. Good stuff 🙂

By: kolakube123

kolakube123 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:41:29 +0000

Excellent vid!! These samplers featured on 90% of most electronic tunes
back in the 90’s. Its such a shame that in just ten years yours vids are
the only tutorials on the whole of youtube. Nice one mate for keeping the
spirit of these classics alive! Please keep up these brilliant vids mate
and Ill never unsubscribe!! Your approach is very fresh and thats no easy
feat on youtube!

By: vinyljunkie07

vinyljunkie07 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:26:19 +0000

Yeah man George is still going but he moved out of the UK few years
back..but then no surprize really. Yeah when I got into making music people
still did it this way so this is what i’m used to. My first synth was that
DX-100, a Korg ER1 drum machine, Bass Station keyboard and a bastardised
tape machine that I ripped the erase head from so you could endlesly over
dub…crude but fun

By: vinyljunkie07

vinyljunkie07 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:04:23 +0000

Thanks mate, yeah I wanted an S series sampler since 1999 lol Actually
Nightmares On Wax still uses one, I remember back in 02/03 he had a S-3000
in his studio but on his new album he made he used an S3200XL among other
things

By: Tiney Ted

Tiney Ted — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 02:59:24 +0000

Great tutorials mate!!!ya one in a mill..literally. im in my 20s and i rock
the s3000xl and mpc 2000..its a sick combo.. you shud do a tutorial about
using the s3000xl or s3200xl to sample and create programs and using the
mpc to sequence.. .. .help the kids out all they know is fruity loops these
days.

By: fromafarawayplace

fromafarawayplace — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 02:23:23 +0000

Faster way than shown in video… If you setup the first keygroup and then
create the others, you are saved the work of setting up the envs/filters
for each keygroup, as they get copied from the first keygroup!

By: stoffenl

stoffenl — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:48:55 +0000

When setting envelopes at multi-sampling it’s a good idea to use Edit mode
“All”. Remember to turn it back to “One” in the SMPL screen though, or it
will mess up your individual Keygroup settings 🙂

By: adrifromhh

adrifromhh — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:35:31 +0000

Im with it! Just got my S3000Xl, Im working on it. Bit at first I must
understand how it works ^^

By: kolakube123

kolakube123 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:21:34 +0000

Heres a challenge for you. How about making a little demo tune just on the
3200XL. Nothing else allowed. Only Samples you make and built in FX,
filters etc. (Of course you can sample FX/Filter sweeps like you did in the
good old days) You up for it? Not bothered if the tune is great or not.
Just more into hearing a tune done exclusively on the Akai S3200XL for
nostalgic reasons. Go on fella, make this old school hardware nut from back
in the day who hates all this software crap happy 🙂