Akai s5000 - dance music

[swainclubber]

i have been offered one, with 256MB ram and USB for £200, is this worth and and secondly is it easy to use?i am hoping to use it for dance music but not sure if it is suited.

many thanks in advance

[Hugo76]

It should definately work. What other gear do you have?

[swainclubber]

It should definately work. What other gear do you have?

hi.got a roland r8 and fantom fa-76,a triton with MOSS,a cs6x with analog card and a ms2000.what is the akai worth?

[Hugo76]

hi.got a roland r8 and fantom fa-76,a triton with MOSS,a cs6x with analog card and a ms2000.what is the akai worth?

That's a pretty cool setup I take it you prefer to work with hardware, then. I have very limited experience with the Akai, but my impression is that it has an intuitive interface, so it's probably a good choice. Personally I'd prefer a Yamaha A5000 due to the superior effect implementation, but I guess you're pretty well covered in that area with your Triton.

£200 sounds like a good price to me.

[Hugo76]

I think ATB used one, btw (and probably tons of others).

[swainclubber]

I think ATB used one, btw (and probably tons of others).

a right cool.will look up the yamaha.ive got the gear just need to learn it proper

[Hugo76]

a right cool.will look up the yamaha.ive got the gear just need to learn it proper

Is the memory in your Triton upgraded? Remember that it features a full blown sampler as well, so maybe you could do with that one?
Here are some reviews that might be helpful:
Akai S5000
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan99/a ... 00.325.htm
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... S5000/10/1

Yamaha A5000
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr00/a ... aa5000.htm
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... mpler/10/1

After a quick review of the two machines, I would definately choose the Yamaha over the Akai.

[swainclubber]

a right cool.will look up the yamaha.ive got the gear just need to learn it proper

Is the memory in your Triton upgraded? Remember that it features a full blown sampler as well, so maybe you could do with that one?
Here are some reviews that might be helpful:
Akai S5000
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan99/a ... 00.325.htm
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... S5000/10/1

Yamaha A5000
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr00/a ... aa5000.htm
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... mpler/10/1

After a quick review of the two machines, I would definately choose the Yamaha over the Akai.

thanks for that.no its standard i think,not sure though.

edit - wow the yamaha looks fantastic, none on ebay though!

[novielo]

i've been using a s5000 and from last summer a s6000. i love them. easy to use the usb card is great for transfering, can be long because it a usb1.1. but it's nothing an overnight upload can't handle

i tried the a4000, it's technically more powerful but i just didn't got around very easily. i sold it and kept the s6000. one nice thing also is the ability to record directly on the hard drive if the 256mb is not enough. another advantage is the 8 output vs the 4-6 on the a4000, on the s6000 (or by upgrading the s5000) you can got up to 16. wich almost means that you could use only this sampler, a mixer and a sequencer and a not-so-powerful laptop to do pretty much everything you need.

[swainclubber]

i've been using a s5000 and from last summer a s6000. i love them. easy to use the usb card is great for transfering, can be long because it a usb1.1. but it's nothing an overnight upload can't handle

i tried the a4000, it's technically more powerful but i just didn't got around very easily. i sold it and kept the s6000. one nice thing also is the ability to record directly on the hard drive if the 256mb is not enough. another advantage is the 8 output vs the 4-6 on the a4000, on the s6000 (or by upgrading the s5000) you can got up to 16. wich almost means that you could use only this sampler, a mixer and a sequencer and a not-so-powerful laptop to do pretty much everything you need.

a right cool,so just sample all my synths or play loops and record them?just need an internal hard disk now.none on ebay so a bit stuck

[Hugo76]

Some good points there, novielo.
Swainclubber: if you need harddisks and other SCSI stuff, there's a site called scsiforsamplers.com - you should find all you need there.

[novielo]

a right cool,so just sample all my synths or play loops and record them?just need an internal hard disk now.none on ebay so a bit stuck

look for a ide-scsi adapter. this way you can use an ide drive in your s5000. place is tight but i've done it with a 3.5 ide hdd, the power cable may be also a problem because of the difference from what's inside and a ide drive, i work around this by soldering the cable plug directly on the pcb. something that could worth trying is use on of these ide adapter that let you use a sd card as a hard drive, no moving parts and you're not praying every night that a 8-10 years old hdd still works the day after. you could even try to remove the floppy drive to have access to it.

or scsi for sampler as said previously

[swainclubber]

cheers ive ordered a hdd now

[danika]

I used an S5000 for quite a few years in the 90's. A couple of years ago I started transferring my Akai samples and multis to Kontakt. At first I couldn't understand why they sounded so much brighter. I finally did some spectrum frequency measurements and determined that the high frequency response of the S5000 is fairly limited. I bring this up because I heard a mastering engineer make the claim that high frequency response is much more important in dance music because of the speakers in clubs.

[ninja6485]

I used an S5000 for quite a few years in the 90's. A couple of years ago I started transferring my Akai samples and multis to Kontakt. At first I couldn't understand why they sounded so much brighter. I finally did some spectrum frequency measurements and determined that the high frequency response of the S5000 is fairly limited. I bring this up because I heard a mastering engineer make the claim that high frequency response is much more important in dance music because of the speakers in clubs.

zombie thread, but i picked up an s5000 since this post, and i havn't noticed a deficiency at all, and can in fact see evidence of sound reproduction up to 20500hz in wavelab's 3d frequency analysis program on audio recorded directly into the s5000 and recorded from it's outputs. i suspect there could be a number of things that might be jading your results, i.e. - something either before the audio was recorded into the s5k, something affecting the audio after leaving the sk5 outputs, or even a broken s5k. or perhapse an unchecked cutoff frequency setting?