Akai S3000XL

Akai s3000xl is solid working horse, very popular. It has 12db low-pass filter with resonance, digital outputs, 32mb of ram expandable by cheap 72pin simms, 32 voices of polyphony, decent midi implementation, nice free windows scsi editor – MESA. You can get optional eb16 multi fx board and IB-304F filter board. Filter board adds band-pass, hi-pass or additional low-pass filter + eqalizer. S3000XL can read floppy disks from s900 s950 and s1000/s1100.

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Download manual, sysex implementation, S3000xl How to (thanks goes to Dan from aproductions.co.uk)
Operating System 2.0 omniflop image
If you have scsi card on your pc you can use very nice and fast editor MESA – mesa v2.2 and win xp reg fix
NiceWave – scsi sample transfering tool for windows
and visit akai tools for more useful software