S-VX Hybrid Library KONTAKT

P2P | June 06 2014 | 520 MB

Complex Analog Oscillators with 12-bit Crunch into Curtis Filters….

In the mid 80′s AKAI released the infamous S900 which was to be one of the first of a new generation of highly affordable professional samplers. The S900 and it’s bigger brother, the S950, became big sellers and completely changed the playing field amongst their competitors with their five digit offerings. The S900 was a 12-bit machine with a tiny 750K memory and a floppy drive for sample storage. At the time it was a revelation but it’s now really very basic by today’s standards. However…. Like so many early samplers such as the E-mu Emulator II, the SCI Prophet 2000 and the Ensoniq Mirage, the S900 has sonic character in bucket loads and still has a following to this day. One feature of the S900 that was often overlooked was a curious 13 pin connector on the rear panel marked “VOICE OUT”…