#akaizer

[music4thebasshead]

How to create authentic timestretched Jungle breaks with Akaizer              

[jamestmusic]

Akaizer is a freeware application for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux which can time stretch and/or pitch shift any WAVE or AIFF sound file in the style of the 'cyclic' time stretch, which featured on old Akai sound samplers, like the S950 / S1000 / S2000 / S3000 series. This is ideal for DAW-based music producers who want that classic metallic-sounding effect, as used in many old school Hardcore / Jungle / Speed Garage tunes from the 1990s, without the need for an actual Akai sampler.

[r4ytrace]

while you can mess around in Ableton to try and recreate that metallic jungly breakbeat sound by playing with repitch and 'Texture' with a high grain size in warp options - to really get the sound Akaizer is a great tool to use...

http://akaizer.blogspot.com/

(image taken from SynthMuseum, it says 'image courtesy of AKAI' however so I presume it was promotional image originally)