Does the Akai s900 have analog or digital filters?

mdl76 · Post by **mdl76** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:01 pm

just wondering. I guess I could open my s900 and look, but just wondering if anyone knows. Did a search and turned up with nothing.

Post by **tallowwaters** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:38 pm

good lord. search this phrase in google:

akai s900 filters

and read the first two lines of the first entry.

hageir · Post by **hageir** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:31 am

tallowwaters wrote:good lord. search this phrase in google:

akai s900 filters

and read the first two lines of the first entry.

2nd.
but I googled it and got a ton of results, some saying analog and some saying analog-like..
which one is it?

Sir Ruff · Post by **Sir Ruff** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:34 pm

hageir wrote:
tallowwaters wrote:good lord. search this phrase in google:

akai s900 filters

and read the first two lines of the first entry.
2nd.
but I googled it and got a ton of results, some saying analog and some saying analog-like..
which one is it?

to be honest what difference does it make? it's basically a gloiried tone control... and given that it's from the 80s, I would almost be certain it was analog.

mdl76 · Post by **mdl76** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:20 pm

to be honest what difference does it make? it's basically a gloiried tone control... and given that it's from the 80s, I would almost be certain it was analog.

because inquiring minds wanna know

I'm just wondering. And maybe other might wonder to.

thanks you though for the input.

ps, I did google it but I could not find anything that stated in in concrete.

Sir Ruff · Post by **Sir Ruff** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:48 pm

mdl76 wrote: because inquiring minds wanna know

I hear ya...

Dr. Sound · Post by **Dr. Sound** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:53 am

digital or analog I don't know...

but I do know that when you overdrive the input stage when you are sampling you can get a very nice distortion

nigel · Post by **nigel** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:37 am

No resonance

hageir · Post by **hageir** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:10 am

nigel wrote:No resonance

so, it's digital?

or what?
does anybody know?!

Post by **shaft9000** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:28 pm

it's digi-what-alog

it's a plain-vanilla filter, heard on countless dance/hip-hop tracks from the mid-90s.
who cares what it's doing, really?

hageir · Post by **hageir** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:48 pm

according to some list I found on the net compiling all samplers with analog filters, my s700 is included

the s900/s950 are analog..

(the s700/x7000 have the same filters as the s612 so my guess is that the s900/s950 do too)