KONEY INDUSTRIAL BLOG

I am running another new blog focused on the production of industrial music, something the AKAI S900 helped and inspired me a lot about.



Here I will speak about Industrial Electronic music production, gear, plug-ins, software, visuals, concepts, tunes and sounds, samples, links and whatever could be related.

I'm not a news hunter so expect to see my thoughts and experiences about the said topics rather than an updated list of the latest stuff released.

Topics about the AKAI S900 will be crsss-posted in both blogs.

See you there!

Industrial Music Production Blog

VIDEOS OF AMIGA OLDSCHOOL LIVE

Live setup:
Amiga 600HD
AKAI S900
MACKIE DESIGNS 16ch Mixer
MAM Warp-9 analog filter
Roland SH-09

Live took place @ Masters of Hardcore in Italy, 27/06/2009






Full video of send half available on my Netlog profile

The mysterious symbol

I've been trying to fetch some informations about this alien rune that appears sometimes on the side of sample names:


Needles to say that the manual don't tell a single information about that.
After using the AKAI S900 for years I still havent figured out when it comes out and WHAT DOES IT MEAN.

In fact the mysterious symbol is not always shown:


But sometimes it appears after sample name:

ANY CLUE??

Fit an Amiga 600 floppy drive on the AKAI S900

This is the experience of a guy that succefully fitted an Amiga 600 floppy drive on an AKAI S900.


Just use the original cable that's inside the AKAI and it works straight away!

When you open the case it looks like it's necessary to remove the main board and the front panel before being able to remove the floppy drive, but with a little care it's possible to unfit just that kind of dissipator on the right by unscrewing the 4 screws on the right side of the rack and unplugging all the wires.

Maybe it's not very nice to see if you don't build a front cover or something but it works flawlessly and since Amiga 600 drives are cheap and easily found on Ebay this solution it's worth considering before going for an original replacement drive.


Thanx to Breska for the information and the photo!

PS: I've been reported of a voice that US Amiga drives are different from european ones. It seems like that only the euorpean ones are working with the AKAI S900. We haven't been able to check this yet but I'd advise to make sure you use an european drive.