Akai S-950 Operational Manual Course

Akai S-950 Operational Manual

Learn your way around the Akai S-950. If you’ve got an S-950 or thinking about getting one, this manual will give you everything you need to understand one of the most popular vintage samplers ever made.

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Course curriculum

1. Why An Akai S950 Beginners Manual?
1. Rack Ears For The Akai S-950
2. The Front Panel Starting With The Disk Drive Area
3. The Number Pad Area
4. The Control Knob & Audio Inputs
5. The Back Panel
6. Test What You've Learned So Far
1. The Akai S-950's Sample Architechture
2. How Do You Play the Akai S-950?
3. Test What You've Learned So Far
1. The S-950's Main Menu Pages
2. Test What You've Learned So Far
1. The Play Menu
1. Name Of Sample To Be Recorded
2. Name Of Sample To Be Monitored
3. Audio Source
4. Audio Bandwitdth
5. Recording Time
6. Pitch Of Sound Being Recorded
7. Start Sampling With
8. Test What You've Leard So Far
1. 01 - Edit Sample Name
2. 02 - Select Program Monitor
3. 03 - Loudness - Note Number & Pitch Fine Tune
4. 04 - Replay Mode
5. 05 - Sample Direction
6. 06 - Sample Start Time Setting
7. 07 - Sample End Point Time Setting
8. 08 - Sample Looping Setting
9. 09 - Sample Crossfade Loop
10. 10 - Resampling & Truncation
11. 11 - Sample Splice & X-Fade
12. 12 - Splice Crossfade Time
13. 13 - Sample Splice Order
14. 14 - Timestretching
15. Test What You've Learned So Far
1. 01 - Edit Program Name
2. 02 - MIDI Program - Key Loudness & Positional Crossfade Settings
3. 03 - Keygroup Select
4. 04 - Velocity Threshold Setting
5. 05 - Soft Sample Note Range
6. 06 - Loudness - Filter - Transpose & Fine Tuning
7. 07 - Loud Sample Note Range
8. 08 - Loud Sample - Loudness - Filter - Transpose & Fine Tuning
9. 09 - Voltage Control Filter (VCF) Settings
10. 10 - Amplitude Envelope (ENV) Settings
11. 11 - Keygroup Velocity Parameters
12. 12 - The Warp Feature
13. 13 - LFO Parameters
14. 14 - LFO Depth Modulation Control
15. 15 - Keyfilter - Constant Pitch & One Shot Mode
16. 16 - Assigning Program MIDI Channels
17. 17 - Assigning Individual Audio Outputs
18. Test What You've Learned So Far
1. 01 - MIDI Channel & OMNI Mode Setup
2. 02 - MIDI Test Display
3. 03 - MIDI Receive Monitor
4. 04 - MIDI Program Change
5. 05 - MIDI RS232 Settings
1. 01- ME35T Audio Trigger To MIDI Unit
2. 02- Input MIDI - PItch - OnTime & V-Curve
3. 03 - Input - Capture Time & Recovery Time
4. 04 - Input Gain Trigger Threshold
1. 01 - Volume Selection & Renameing
2. 02 - Clear Memory & Load Disk
3. 03 - Load Program
4. 04 - Load Sample
5. 05 - Clear Volume & Save Entire Memory
6. 06 - Save Program
7. 07 - Save Sample
8. 08 - Erase Sample/Program From Disk
9. 09 - Format Disk
10. 10 - Load/Save Drum Settings
11. 11 - Loading MIDI Program Changes
12. 12 - Park Hard Disk
1. Master Tune - The Easiest Of Them All
1. S-950 Casual Walthrough
2. Akai S-950 Closing Notes
1. Update 1.1 Introduction
2. S-950 Timestretching - An Expanded Look
3. Timestretching A Practical Walkthrough
4. Sample Splicing Recapitulation
5. Sample Splicing On The Akai S-950 A Practical Look
6. Velocity Layering Recapitulation
7. Velocity Layering A Practical Look
8. Envelope Modulation Recapitulation
9. Envelope Modulation A Practical Look
1. Record/Playback Trigger Input Functionality
2. A Practical Walkthrouh of the Record/Playback Trigger Input

About this course

$50.00
89 lessons
3 hours of video content

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Akai S-950 Operational Manual

Great resource!

Ardavan Ashkani

I have had the Akai sampler many years. Some functions are hard to figure out but the course makes them easy to understand. I also learned some neat tricks!

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Akai S950 course

Barry Best

Really informative course. Explained everything I needed to know to get started with the S950. Clear calm and concise.

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Outstanding course on the Akai S-950!!!

PABLO VILLAFANE

Outstanding course on the Akai S-950!!! You are a a master teacher, a great instructor, an audio guru and a sampling sensei....one of the best courses I've ...

Outstanding course on the Akai S-950!!! You are a a master teacher, a great instructor, an audio guru and a sampling sensei....one of the best courses I've taken by far. Yo, word is bond, I learned to work my way around the S-950 back in 1989 while stationed in K-Town, Germany, and you still managed to teach me a few things I never dabbled with. Anybody reading this I recommend you take any or all of this man's courses/video manuals, you will not be disappointed. Continued success my Brother!!

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The Daydream Sound Akai S950 Manual / Tutorial

D Murry

This is well worth the purchase. It takes away any intimidation of learning the S950. It took me two days to get through watching it here and there as I had ...

This is well worth the purchase. It takes away any intimidation of learning the S950. It took me two days to get through watching it here and there as I had the time. Looking forward to diving into the S950. I now know that it is remarkably straight forward even with the tiny screen. Should be a joy to work with. Thank you The Daydream Sound!

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