Installing Vintage Memory In The Akai MPC

Some old vintage samplers are still quite popular in music production these days. The Akai MPC is one such sampler, and modern production demands chew up RAM for breakfast so upgrading your memory capacity for your vintage sampler has never been more important. Many of you are a bit nervous about opening up your cold, metallic babies and playing around with their guts, but fear not, the upgrade does not require any technical skills, just a little forethought and care. Here’s a simple tutorial

This tutorial is specific to installing 72-pin RAM (16MB, 32MB, 64MB, 96MB) into samplers such as, MPC3000, MPC2000(XL), Akai S-Series, Korg Triton Series, Yamaha Motif/EX/RS and others. However, many of the principles in performing ram-upgrades in general are covered here. Let’s take a look…

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Burning Instructions For Akai S1000 ISOS

This is a brief tutorial showing you how to easily burn an AKAI S1000 iso (.img/.iso/.nrg/ etc). All you need is a CD-R, a CD burner and compatible burning software (free software provided if you don’t have your own). This tutorial is specific to libraries downloaded from platinumaudiolab.com, but you can use these instructions to burn any S1000 ISO. All S1000 ISOS have to be either burned to disk, or mounted with mounting-software such as daemon tools or alcohol before they can be used in hardware or software samplers.

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Review: Cubasis DAW on iPad & Midi Routing Tutorial

In this video we take a look at midi routing between Cubasis and outside apps, as well as a basic review of the different features available in Cubasis.

If you are interested in importing Cubasis sessions into Cubase 6 or Cubase 7, you will need the Cubasis importer extension. You can download it from our mirror under Software & Utilities, or go to Steinberg’s official Cubasis Session Importer page.