DJ Cutt of Constant Deviants – The Master (2015)

Posted by HHB Admin on July 4, 2015 – 10:31 am

01. 12bit Side
02. S950 Side

A man and his machine! Vintage beats from DJ CUTT (Constant Deviants) straight from the legendary Akai S950 sampler. The S900 sampler was Akai’s first truly professional sampler, released in 1986. Its sampling specifications were pro-quality at the time: 12bit stereo sampling, 7.5kHz to 40kHz variable sampling rates and a maximum of 63 seconds of sample time at 7.5kHz. Up to 32 samples can be created and stored to disk along with any edit settings. This was one of the first rack-mount samplers to use a built-in disk drive. Although the drive could load sounds while you play, it was still a very slow process. Editing and programming the S900 was a very good precursor to the advanced S3000 series. The S950 soon followed the S900 and offered increased memory and sampling rates. The sample rate was now variable from 7.5 to 48kHz and it could hold up to 99 samples in memory. Memory could be expanded from 750KB to 2.25MB.