Comparing the Akai S2000 and Turtle Beach Monterey, they’re pretty different animals. The Akai S2000, released around ’95, is a rackmount sampler with 2 megabytes of base RAM, expandable to 32 megabytes, and it handles sampling at 22 to 44.1 kilohertz in mono or stereo, 16- or 8-bit. You could load samples, edit them withContinue reading “A Sound Design journey from 1995 through to the millennium! Akai S-2000 to the rescue?”
Category Archives: Music Production: Routines & History
Sound Design before I used the Akai S-2000 (1996-99)
Comparing the Turtle Beach Monterey workflow to the Korg wavestate SE, it’s night and day in terms of flexibility and immediacy. With the Monterey-basically the Tahiti sound card paired with the Rio MIDI daughterboard-you were working in a ‘90s PC environment. You’d load or edit samples using clunky Windows software like WaveSculpt, where you couldContinue reading “Sound Design before I used the Akai S-2000 (1996-99)”
Wavetable Synthesis and thirty years later! My current workflow compared to what I worked on during the mid 1995-1996!
The Turtle Beach wave table synthesizer you’re thinking of could be the Monterey, which was a combo of the Tahiti sound card and the Rio MIDI daughterboard, released around 1994. The Tahiti was a high-end card with 18-bit digital audio converters and a Motorola 56001 DSP, but it didn’t have onboard synthesis. Instead, it usedContinue reading “Wavetable Synthesis and thirty years later! My current workflow compared to what I worked on during the mid 1995-1996!”