The instrument
After the Akai S1000 from 1988, the company released the S1100 in 1990, which included many updates aimed at professional engineers and producers. The new machine included a SMPTE reader and generator to sync up with visual editing, improved D/A converters to get a better signal-to-noise ratio, and enough memory to hold more than 12 minutes of audio in mono, quite the feat at the time.
Details
The S1100'S involve new software features and superior circuitry, with 20-bit DACs providing improved s/n ratio and dynamic range. It also introduces onboard digital effects processing. A significant new feature is the SMPTE cue list, which can be used in conjunction with the sampler's built-in SMPTE/EBU read/write capability to turn the S1100 into a machine well-suited to audio/visual post-production work. It is ability to address up to 32Mb of onboard RAM. The full complement of memory give a sampling time of 12 minutes 40 seconds (mono sampling at 22.05Khz). Like the S1000, the S1100 includes dedicated software for programming Akai's ME35T trigger-to-MIDI interface. (Source: Muzines)