Posted on 12/08/2016
Mixed sample rates You may find yourself in a situation where you accidentally came to record at one sampling frequency, and then later record something else with a different frequency and wind up with a bunch of files with different sampling freuqnecies in the same session. This situation can actually happen in a DAW – […]
Posted on 25/05/2016
How far can you go with one sound, if you use all available treatments to it? I’d dare to say about all the way to a finished piece of music. A single basic sound source can be treated to perform almost any musical role. This was actually also the basic philosophy behind the first analog […]
Posted on 24/05/2016
Timestretching audio became a household term with the advent of Akai’s S-1000 sampler in 1988. A special feature in the sampler allows you stretch out the duration of the sample by adding extra samples that are interpolated values in between the original samples. This gives quite a dramatic and robotic effect, that was widely used […]
Posted on 02/08/1996
Although my trusty Akai S-1000/1100/3200 samplers had been expanded up to the full 32MB memory, and were able to hold great many samples (enough to produce full tracks), there was still a need for a device that could hold very long stereo samples, and even whole mixes. Akai saw this need, and launched the solution […]
Posted on 25/05/1990
Only few pieces of gear can rightfully claim to have changed the course of recording and music history. One of those is the Akai S-1000 series of 16-bit MIDI hardware samplers (S-1000, S-1100, S-3200), without those the 90’s musical landscape probably would have sounded and felt differently. The S-1000 series evolved out of the S-900/950 […]
Posted on 02/02/1985
Thud-tick-whack-tick… The LM-2 drum machine from Roger Linn is an absolute classic, and the model you probably refer to when mentioning “LinnDrum”. Incidentally this is also printed in large letters on the front. When first launched it was considered to be one of the most realistic sounding drum machines. Countless classic hit records have been made with – or […]