Id like to use my AKAI S-1000 MIDI sampler to record digital audio to my computer HD. Can I do that?
You can’t do “direct-to-disk” recording to your computer’s HD with an external MIDI sampler. The wave data transfers that such MIDI samplers do is not a real-time transfer. MIDI Sample Dump Standard sends data far too slowly over the MIDI cable to be able to store it as fast as it’s being recorded. It’s a much, much slower transfer than playing back the data. Even SMDI (ie, the SCSI version of SDS) isn’t real-time (although much faster than SDS). Besides, I’ve never seen a sampler made that can do recording at the same time that it’s doing a dump of a waveform to another device. Usually samplers require a direct link to storage medium in order to record in real-time to that medium (ie, the HD has to be directly connected to the sampler). You’d need a direct hardware connection to your computer’s HD. This may be possible using a SCSI controller in your computer and SCSI HD, plus a sampler that can record directly to a SCSI drive, but probably your sampler’s file format will be different
