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Akai manufactured and badged most of its imported hi-fi products under the Tensai brand (named after the Swiss audio and electronics distributor Tensai International [citation needed]). Tensai International served as Akai's exclusive distributor for the Swiss and Western European markets until 1988.
The Akai S1000 is a 16-bit, 44.1 kHz professional stereo digital sampler, released by Akai in 1988. The S1000 was among the first professional-quality 16-bit stereo samplers. [ 3 ] Its abilities to splice, crossfade, trim, and loop sound in 16-bit CD quality made it popular among producers in the late 80s through to the mid 90s.
The Akai S3000XL [3] is a sampler with 32 polyphonic voices, and 2 MB of built-in RAM.. For adding sounds to the sampler, the S3000XL features a 3.5" floppy drive that reads Akai-formatted floppies, and a SCSI port which allows for connection to an external storage device (such as a zip drive or external hard disk), a CD reader, or a computer for editing samples via the MESA editor.
In 2003, the family-run Schmolz + Bickenbach Group, which had previously been involved in steel processing and steel trading, through the leadership of Michael Storm took over the majority of the shares of Swiss Steel AG, a listed steel producer. Swiss steel was founded in Emmenbrücke in 1996. It was established as a holding company after the ...
The Akai S900 is a 12-bit sampler, with a variable sample rate from 7.5 kHz through to 40 kHz. It was common in recording studios until it was superseded two years later by the S1000 . An expanded version, the Akai S950 , was released in 1988 alongside the higher end S1000.
Swiss Steel This page was last edited on 9 August 2018, at 01:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional ...
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Akai reel-to-reel systems using cross-field, starting with the Akai XIV/Roberts 770, boasted 13 kHz maximum frequency at 1.875 inches per second, greater than similar systems at twice that speed. The two-head cross-field system also had problems. One was the need to keep the heads in proper alignment, which was tricky for the average user.