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nicesneakers SpUser
Joined: 20 Apr 2007
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akai s950 maxed?
i get the what i'll call hierarchy of sp's. sp12<sp12turbo<sp1200. but what about the akai s950's? is it that important to have the expanded memory or the scsi chip? this is new jack as hell. i just want one to midi with my sp12turbo...should i hold off til i find one maxed? what's the word?
Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:55 pm
DFACE DXA admin
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
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Location: BRONX NYC
max memory makes your life easier.. its rare i have a 2.25mb beat but i often fill up the memory in the process of making a beat, especially if you use higher sample rates. i would definitely wait for a max ram 950, often you can find them just as cheap or only slightly more. i got two maxed ram 950's for under 200 each. scsi is a whole nother world, don't wait for scsi cuz its rare as fuck. i got the scsi upgrade after a long time, keep your eyes open if you're serious about it but dont wait for it. _________________
Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:01 pm
nicesneakers SpUser
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another new jack question...
what about just doing the memory/scsi upgrades yourself once you got the unit? is it hard to do? can you still source the chips? is it more expensive this way?
thanks for the quick response dface!
Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:36 pm
DFACE DXA admin
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upgrading the ram is more expensive/time consuming afterwards. its not hard to install either upgrade if you know the 950. _________________
Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:09 pm
essence SpUser
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
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Location: Switzerland
DFACE DXA wrote:
max memory makes your life easier.. its rare i have a 2.25mb beat but i often fill up the memory in the process of making a beat, especially if you use higher sample rates. i would definitely wait for a max ram 950, often you can find them just as cheap or only slightly more. i got two maxed ram 950's for under 200 each. scsi is a whole nother world, don't wait for scsi cuz its rare as fuck. i got the scsi upgrade after a long time, keep your eyes open if you're serious about it but dont wait for it.
I don't agree to this...I have a S950 with standard memory (750KB) and I never needed more memory.
Sampling at "12000Hz" (means that you actually sample at 12000 x 2.5 = 30000Hz) which sounds great gives you 33 sec. sampling time ! And if you sample at 45RPM +8% pitch you can get even more so...how could 33 sec. don't be enough ?!
In addition to that, if you have the memory maxed out, you'll need several floppies to save your samples if your using more than the standard memory.
Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:33 am
DFACE DXA admin
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
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Location: BRONX NYC
if you only rock 750kb you might as wel have a 900. i rocked a 900 for a while before i got a 950. i think you can make due whit one mem chip but havin the max makes it a diff game.
essence- 12000 gives you 33 seconds, that doesnt sound right becuase wehn i sample at 1200(w/2.25) i get 50790 which is 50 seconds, a third of that is 16 n a third seconds. i personally dont like to go that low on the rate anyway i normally rock 16000 or max. 750 on 16000 is ten seconds so at a shitty rate of 8000 youd still only be using 20 seconds. someone step in if my math is wrong. but essence it soudns like you have two memory chips at 1.5 mb _________________
Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:32 am
essence SpUser
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
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Location: Switzerland
I get what you mean DFACE, I guess I was wrong...although it's strange because my S950 starts up with the message "1024K Words installed" which would mean that I have 1 MB (if I assume that they counted 8 bits as one word) installed. I thought however, that the RAM components came in size of 750KB which would conclude that I should have the message "1500K Words installed".
Do you remember what your S900 were showing or what does your maxed s950 show at startup ?
Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:22 pm
Pilchard SpUser
Joined: 19 Oct 2006
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I believe mine is maxed out to 2.25mb.
It say's 1536 kwords at start-up.
If yours says 1024 kwords it must mean you have 1.5 mb.
Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:38 pm
DFACE DXA admin
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Pilchard wrote:
I believe mine is maxed out to 2.25mb.
It say's 1536 kwords at start-up.
If yours says 1024 kwords it must mean you have 1.5 mb.
yeah exactly _________________
Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:13 pm
DarkWing SpUser
Joined: 06 Jan 2007
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Pilchard wrote:
I believe mine is maxed out to 2.25mb.
It say's 1536 kwords at start-up.
If yours says 1024 kwords it must mean you have 1.5 mb.
