{"product_id":"akai-s950-the-12-bit-sampler-that-built-hip-hop-and-jungle","title":"Akai S950: The 12-Bit Sampler That Built Hip-Hop and Jungle","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore everyone had a thousand soft-samplers in a laptop, you had a rack, a floppy disk, and twelve glorious bits. The Akai S950 is the box that chopped the breaks for half of hip-hop, jungle, and big beat: Fatboy Slim, Dr. Dre, The Bomb Squad, and Future Sound of London all leaned on its gritty, time-stretched, slightly-wrong magic. It samples up to 48kHz, mangles loops with the time-stretch that made it famous, and gives every voice its own output so you can process hits to taste. This one is memory-expanded and ready to ruin your productivity. It doesn't sound clean. That's the entire point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFEATURES \u0026amp; PROS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12-Bit Character:\u003c\/strong\u003e That crunchy, slightly-degraded grit producers still chase. Cleanliness is overrated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLegendary Time-Stretch:\u003c\/strong\u003e The first Akai to stretch samples without changing pitch. The secret sauce behind a thousand breakbeats.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMemory-Expanded:\u003c\/strong\u003e Boot screen confirms 1536KB (1.5MB) fitted, double the stock 750KB, for longer samples and more of them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e8 Individual Outputs:\u003c\/strong\u003e Send every voice to its own channel for separate processing. A mixdown dream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVariable Sampling to 48kHz:\u003c\/strong\u003e Higher fidelity than the S900 it replaced, with lower rates on tap when you want it nasty.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDisk + MIDI:\u003c\/strong\u003e Loads S900 and S1000 libraries and plays nice with any MIDI rig.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAS USED BY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFatboy Slim, who leaned on its time-stretch for sub-bass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bomb Squad (Public Enemy's production team)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDr. Dre and a generation of hip-hop producers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFuture Sound of London, plus countless jungle and big-beat records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE WORD:\u003c\/strong\u003e MusicRadar reckons the S950 has aged gracefully and stayed a go-to drum-loop sampler thanks to that time-stretch, the same trick Fatboy Slim leaned on for his sub-bass. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/news\/akai-s950-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eRead the review\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPECIFICATIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1988\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eType:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12-bit rackmount digital sampler (2U)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePolyphony:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8 voices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSampling:\u003c\/strong\u003e variable 7.5kHz to 48kHz, with time-stretch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMemory:\u003c\/strong\u003e expanded to 1536KB \/ 1.5MB installed (S950 maxes at 2.25MB)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOutputs:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8 individual + stereo mix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eConnectivity:\u003c\/strong\u003e MIDI In\/Out\/Thru, 3.5 inch floppy disk drive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePower:\u003c\/strong\u003e IEC mains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eManual:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.manualslib.com\/manual\/629018\/Akai-S950.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eAkai S950 operator's manual (ManualsLib)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Akai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49697279770863,"sku":null,"price":16500.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/5992\/9071\/files\/IMG_3348_9cbdb149-a0c5-4f10-b7f1-7a61ed237af8.jpg?v=1781243426","url":"https:\/\/innerpieces.art\/products\/akai-s950-the-12-bit-sampler-that-built-hip-hop-and-jungle","provider":"Inner Pieces","version":"1.0","type":"link"}