I think I paid about £2000 for an S3200 in the early 90s, they were worth more but i worked in a place that sold them so got it at cost price. I had to pay £500 for 8MB of RAM tho 
Also probably the most I’ve spent on one instrument.
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Do you still have it?
yeah still in my m8’s rack
got an S6000 sitting in it’s box in my other m8s loft too lol
I think there might also be an S1000 knocking about somewhere too, we had one of those anyway (first of them all) but can’t remember what happened to it
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Hi all! 
Pardon me for jumping in, 
but I have a time sensitive question… 
I just got a Korg Monologue in:
It’s nice,
but it’s really not what I need right now - so I’m going to send it back. 
However, before I do - I would like to rip the patches off this synth before I send it back. 
Does anyone here know how I could do this? 
People have been looking for those old Akai’s because they have a certain sound plus tight MIDI timing.
record them all into your DAW as audio?
If the patches are velocity sensitive, you’d probably want to record them into your sampler as multi-layered samples, if your sampler supports that. It’s a big job if you want to do it properly. I dunno if there’s better ways to do this tho.
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might hold on to them then lol, we tried to sell the S6000 for a silly low price a few years back but got zero interest
The S5000/6000s are not as desirable as the S3000/S32000s or the S900/950s but they will probably come back around. I liked them because to could import/export .wav which made it a lot easier to transfer files rather than faffing about with proprietary sample formats.
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we got the S6000 cos of the detachable screen, you could program it in comfort rather than stooped over a screen in a rack somewhere. So many bad memories of being hunched over the Akai sampler screen pressing the little buttons for hours on end, I’d never go back to that shit lol.
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If you have an iPad or iPhone this will do it:
But there’s no way to do a data dump for the patches because it’s specific to the hardware set typically.
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the S950 was the 12-bit one, that definitely has a crunchier sound than the others
Yeh
They are huge too.
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Thanks for the awesome replies! 
I read the manual and searched it for the word patches,
it didn’t even have that word in it, lol. 
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I will look into what has been mentioned,
and if there’s any other ways I’m open to hearing it… ! 
Thanks again!
The patches are just gonna be a sysex file that is meaningless to anything other than the Monolouge. Ronzlo’s suggestion creates a sample pack for each patch, multisampled at various velocity and notes so that any sampler can use those patches
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Something went wrong with my Ableton demo and the timer got reset. So now I’ll have
it for another 90 days. I was already going to buy it you goofs!
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you can always just use disabletone when it runs oot
I had an email from Ableton, they extended eveyone’s trial license
Oh lol I didn’t see that. That’s nice of them.
I haven’t even opened my other daws since.
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You don’t really need to tbh. I haven’t used another DAW in years.
is there any decent solution for managing / migrating plugins nowadays? trying to avoid reinstalling everything but also dont want to run my old pc on a vm