Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: AM/FM <=====\▬▬▬▬▬L-a-T-e-S-t----K-e-Y-b-O-a-R-d----N-e-W-s▬▬▬▬\=====> .00 collected and written for AM/FM by Andre Meyer Oo. Akai S2800 / S3000/S3200 Akai will probably present their new samplers $2800, $3000 and $3200 on the NAMM-show. All three samplers feature 32-note polyphonie and 16-bit sampling with 44,1khz sampling-frequency. Further same features are resonance filter, 2 LFOs, 2 envelope generators (1 standard-ADSR-generator and 1 generator with 8 rate- and level-parameters), 50 effect-presets as well as APM. APM means "Assignable Program Modulation" and allows you to choose any source (e.g. mod- wheel, pitchbend, aftertouch, velocity, LFOs, envelopes and MIDI-controllers) to control any parameters (filter cutoff frequency, LFO rate, LFO depth, volumes and panorama position, to name only a few). The $3200 is capable to read and write SMPTE-timecode. Besides it is equipped with an AES/EBU- and an SCSI-interface. Direct-to-disk-recording (similar to the S1100 v2.0) is also possible. The $3200 comes with 8 megabytes of memory (expandable up to 32 megabytes) and 8 seperate outputs. The S3000 comes with 2 megabytes of memory (expandable up to 32 megabytes) and 8 seperate outputs. It can be expanded with the AES/EBU-interface and/or the SMPTE-reader/generator. The $2800 comes with 2 megabytes of memory (expandable up to only 16 megabytes) and 2 seperate outputs. It can only be expanded with a SCSI- and an AES/EBU-interface. The prices of the three new AKAI studio samplers are not known yet. E-mu Vintage Keys The new sample-player by E-mu called "Vintage Keys" comes as a 10 rack-module. Its 8 megabytes sound library (expandable to 16 megabytes) consists of 384 preset-sounds which are legendary keyboard-sounds of the last three decades, e.g. the original sounds of the E-pianos Rhodes and Wurlitzer, the Hammond-organs, analog synthesizers and the first popular sounds from Fairlight and Yamaha. As Vintage Keys was derived from the Proteus-modules it also has 32-note polyphonie and 6 outputs. Additional there is now a digital lowpass- filter with resonance. Sony MiniDisc The first MiniDisc Walkman has just been launched by Sony. MiniDiscs are small disks (like computer-disks). They are smaller than the new DCC tapes or ordinary tapes and feature fast access (like on CD) and CD-quality. But the most important advantage of the new MiniDisc is, that you can record your own music on them like on the old tapes. 60 minutes of music can be recorded on each of the current available ones. 74 minutes disks are already announced. At the moment 250 MiniDisc-titles are available and hundreds more titles are expected for this year. Kurzweil K2000 upgrade V1.3 A new upgrade is being offered by Kurzweil for the owners of the K2000 and K2000R. The new upgrade includes 200 new programs, 100 new sounds as well as 15 new banks. Besides the SCSI support and stereo sampling have been improved, and now Akai S1000 and Ensoniq EPS16+ sample files and keymaps are supported. Double Dutch SAM1 upgrade The new operating system offers the possiblity to save several MIDI-files up to 512kb on only one disk. Also the 1 megabyte-expansion is now available with which it is possible to have access on 1 megabyte of waveforms (btw, read AM/FM #10 "Latest News Section" for more detailed information). Valhalla Soundcards Coming very soon are some new soundcards from Valhala for Korg Wavestation, Korg 01/W, Korg T-series, MKS-70, Roland JD800 and Roland D70. The "International Gold"-series for Wavestation will be increased by three volumes. A new soundcard for 01/W and a new "T-Gold"-disk are announced. Also a new "Gold"-disk for the MKS70 and JD800 are available soon. The "Studio"-series for D70 and JD800 will be completed soon, as new cards will be launched. Yamaha SY85 Sounddisks Two new sounddisks are now available for Yamaha's new synthesizer SY85. They are called "Top 40" and "Super Synths" and will delight your SY85 with 256 new sounds as well as some new performances. AM/FM
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