What is a Mega Word?
The AKAI samplers work with a Mega Word basis becuase they sample and work with16bits at a time and not 8. So if a byte is 8 bits and a word is two bytes, the amount of MWords your AKAI reports multiplied by two will give you your usual Mega Bytes. Again, ALL the sampler’s values are referred to 16Bit samples and so he can calculate, based on the basic duration of a sample at 44.1KHz. (1 divided by 44100 that gives us the sample duration which is 22.6757 microseconds) the total duration of your sample through a simple multiplication. Following this method of work, the AKAI can give you directly the amount of free memory left and so the subsequent free seconds available.
