The Akai S900 8 Voice MIDI Multiple Point Sampler offers unprecedented creative power and expressive control, outshining any other digital sampling device available. With 32 sampling points, a frequency response reaching up to 20 kHz, 63 seconds of maximum sampling time, and a fast disk drive, it sets a new benchmark for all future samplers to meet.
Experience effortless sound capture with the Akai S900 Multiple Point Sampler, providing exceptional digital clarity. Its 32 multi-sample points allow you to recreate any sound across a broad 6 octave range, preserving its original timbre and resonance for an unmatched realism in sound. You can create smooth loops or alternate loops to animate the sound, giving it a natural, breathing quality.
AKAI has developed a revolutionary sound contouring technique, enabling velocity cross fades, positional cross fades, velocity switching, and more, bringing you unparalleled realism. These editing effects open up new sonic possibilities, letting you create strange and unique sounds like never before.
The Akai S900 also lets you combine and manipulate samples to produce unique hybrid sounds, layer tracks for complex overdubs or stereo playback, and apply LFO modulation, filtering, and envelope shaping. The intuitive rotary edit wheel makes the process enjoyable, and further modifications can be done using an AKAI polyphonic synthesizer.
The Akai S900 allows for precise control over different sounds across separate MIDI channels, enabling sophisticated MIDI mono mode multitracking and overdubbing. You can manage up to eight different voices at once, with immediate access to 32 distinct sampled sounds, significantly enhancing your recording or live performance.
With an optional upgrade, the Akai S900 transforms into a powerful 12-bit sampling percussion instrument, offering extended sampling times and enhanced editing functions.
With a 20 kHz frequency response, extended sampling time, wide dynamic range, and minimal noise or distortion, the Akai S900 ensures top-quality sound. AKAI has also developed a library of professionally recorded studio disks specifically for the Akai S900, and its fast 3.5 inch built-in disk drive allows for quick storage and retrieval of samples.
Akai S900 Edit Functions
- Scanning (one shot, looping, alternating)
- A.D.S.R. (velocity-attack, velocity-release)
- Velocity cross fade
- Velocity switch
- Positional cross fade
- Attack pitch offset (velocity)
- LFO (delay, rate, depth)
- Filter (key tracking, velocity)
- Sample merge
The AKAI S900 8 Voice MIDI Multiple Point Sampler represents the pinnacle of high-quality digital sampling, setting a new standard for sonic excellence.
