Ensoniq ASR-10 Factory Bundle Essential Sound Disk AD-001 Grand Piano 1 Revelation (Transwave) Essential Sound Disk AD-002 Orch Strings ASR Flute Essential Sound Disk AD-003 Roads Keys 2 Clean Guitar Percussion 1 Essential Sound Disk AD-004 French Horns Rods Keys 1 Air Choir Essential Sound Disk AD-005 ASR Organ Jazz … Continue reading
Firmware Last known revision for S900 is 1.2C. Multiple variants of 1.2 are known but the Akai S900 1.2A EPROM binaries are available for repair and updating purposes. Additional Features of v1.2 – One Shot mode (page 14 of Edit Program) – Previous Sample Bandwidth display – MIDI Program Change … Continue reading
Note: It is advisable to reference the prior companion article on Casio RZ-1 PCM sound ROM hacking for thorough understanding. An augmentation to standard sound ROM hacking is EPROM bank switching. This method provides selection of four different kits on-the-fly instead of having to physically swap out single kit chips … Continue reading
The traditional method of loading samples into the Casio RZ-1 is by sampling directly into the sample input. There is also the well known and documented feature of the MT jack which was designed exclusively for backing-up and restoring sample/rhythm data, but can also be exploited to sideload samples directly … Continue reading
ROM Building Software Kawai R-Series Sound ROM Encoder/Decoder Tools v1.00 Automatically create Kawai R50/R50E/R100 compatible sound ROMs; no special preparation or format knowledge needed. Simply supply normal WAV files and the tool will convert them to the proper format/layout required for Kawai before generating a complete, ready-to-burn EPROM binary. ROMs … Continue reading
