Akai S1000 KB Inspiration

While the rack format was extremely popular for samplers back in the day, it must be said that getting this most rare keyboard version of the S-1000 instantly made me feel like it's a completely different instrument; hands on, easy to use and very fun to play. This particular S-1000 KB has been owned by the euro pop legend E-type and the diskdrive does currently not work. Therefore, I programmed three patches (that I can't save) which uses three of the four standard waveforms in the machine. [ These are pulse, sawtooth, square and sine - standard in the S-1000/1100 series and probably also all the later Akai machines. Adding these waveforms, simple as it may seem, was really a brilliant move by Akai and I am sending my thanks for this. ] The patches are three programs with two samples per key group, thus making them 8 note polyphonic. The synthesizer engine may be limited (the filter is non resonant for instance) but it is none the less highly musical and exciting to befriend again after all these years. I'm calling this improvised musical passage "Akai Dream Machine".


Music: "Akai S1000KB" [c] by Bitley™️