S900/S950 Sample Downloading Program

This program was written by Simon East and allows downloading samples from an Akai S900/S950 sampler via a PC's serial RS-232 port.

It downloads all the samples loaded in the sampler's memory to the PC. The samples are saved in SDS format. It uses the name in the sample's memory to name each SDS file. If a file of that name already exists in the current directory then the characters 1 to 9 are tried on the end of the name to see if a unique name can be found.

Simon chose to use the serial port because it made it easier for him to write the program and higher transfer speeds are possible. The program has been tested on an S950 and it has also been tested on an S900.

If you have any comments you can email the author, Simon East.

Click here to download the program (26K).

Version 2.01

Gert Voets extended the functionality of the above program to sending arbitrary 16-bit mono WAVE samples in the reverse direction, i.e., from the PC to the S950.

If you have any comments about this new release you can email the author, Gert Voets.

Click here to download the program (32K).