MPCBB304 – Lucky Number

This track was just to mess around with recording onto the Akai S950 at a ridiculous bandrate and pitched up a lot so I could get most of the track into the S950 to begin with. So the track is pretty muddy, and a bit of a mess, but whatever I had fun putting it

Akai VX90 Heart Akai S950 Samples n Programs

I was just testing a few things on the VX90/S950 combo setup and figured I would record off a few key groups to see how things were sounding. Below are the files if you’re interested in checking them out. I am pretty sure that Cherry Crush was the first key group that I recorded yesterday

Configuring an Akai VX90 and Akai S950

I spent a few hours messing around with the configuration, and trying to get everything to work. It is not exactly straight forward, and I had to dig through a lot of old posts and try and understand what exactly different sources were trying to tell me. I found a few that indicated that it

#jamcember – Fortress of Self

Mixing it up a bit for the twenty second track The picture comes courtesy of a trip to Munich. Not so much a tourist type of city, but there’s a lot to see there. I think that particular shot came from a train ride that I took with my family to go check out the

MPC Programs – NT S950 Volume 4

Got some more S950 programs sampled, but first, here’s the link. The big thing I learned this time around was that from the Sampler menu, if you select a mono source and set the sampling to mono… well I didn’t have to use Fission to covert the samples to mono. That saved some headaches for

S950 and S1000 White Noise and Drum Break Comparison

A conversation started on MPC Forums about the MPC & S900/950 Routing Question. We got into details about how the S900/S950 worked, which then lead into S900/S950 samples sounding more full on the S1000 and later. I ended up taking a stab at sampling both white noise and a drum break on the S950 with

MPC Programs – NT S950 Volume 3

I’m back at it for another round of sampling off of my trusty Akai S950… still working like a champ. Before getting into the details, here’s the link. Good news is that I am getting faster at sampling, but the bad news is that I made a mistake on a few of the programs and

MPC Samples – NT S950 Volume 2

I spent some more time last night recording off of the Akai S950… and I can tell you I continue to really dig the low end sound. Before digging in a bit, here is the link: Similar to a few days ago, this is MPC X/Live/One formatted for the program file, but the samples are

Track – Space Dust

I put this track together last week for the MPC BB 292, and then forgot to post about it. The first trick, to get the really over cooked sound from the track, I ended up pitching the track up 3 octaves before playing it, and then sampled it into my Akai S950. This really stripped

Akai S950 Memory Upgrade

The Akai S950 is not too hard to upgrade, and there are not too many options. One upgrade that can be important is to increase the amount of memory that your S950 has, since it can triple your sample time. Before you start though, make sure you don’t forget to unplug the Akai S950 from