Currently, the MSRP of Millennium™ is $37.95. It is Windows-only.

You can purchase at our retail arm SamplerZone.com. This includes free shipping.

No, unfortuantely Millennium is an older program and no demo of it was created.

Millennium™ is unfortunately only available via CD. This is the wish of the author. However, please note that shipping is free.

Millennium was written by a British engineer named Jan and is no longer being coded; so there will be no updates of this particular program. It may be rewritten in the future.

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Millennium™ is recommended only on 32-bit Windows operating systems, which basically means only Windows XP SP3. Millennium will RUN on any Windows opertaing system but pretty much cannot communicate with a SCSI device in that case. Below are the details:

If you Google you'll find some 64-bit drivers for your SCSI card, if it's a Adaptec, usually 2490. That takes care of at least using the SCSI card on your 64-bit operating system.

Then, the issue is communicating with the SCSI card. Millennium is a 32-bit app and needs to using the 32-bit version of Adaptec ASPI to communicate with it. The problem is that the 32-bit Adaptec ASPI does not communicate with the 64-bit SCSI card driver, and the 64-bit Adaptec ASPI does not work with Millennium, since Millennium is 32-bit.

There are other ASPI's out there, we call them "fake ASPI". They are merely wrappers that take incoming ASPI-style calls and then route them to the Microsoft OS calls (which are 32-64 "toll-free bridged", meaning it doesn't matter what you use to call them) to communicate with the SCSI card driver(s). That should solve the problem, but for some reason the ones that exist do not include communication with "processor" devices like the Akai, they only communicate with storage-class devices.

So for right now it's a Catch 22. We have spent a little time trying to create a fake ASPI of our own which supports processor devices. However, Millennium does not create enough profit for us to spend a lot of time on it.

First, the summary: we do not recommend using Millennium with a 64-bit operating system. We have yet to see an example where this works. All our software is non-refundable, so if you want to take this risk, it's on you.

Millennium is a program that is just like MESA, only better. it communicates directly to the Akai sampler via SCSI. This necessitates having a SCSI card or adapter on your computer.

To understand how Millennium communicates, the chain is like this:

Millennium -> Computer -> ASPI -> Computer SCSI adapter -> SCSI cable -> Akai

Millennium runs fine on Win98 through Windows 11, so we have the first part of the equation satisfied. Millennium installs with an ASPI driver sitting alongside it, so ASPI is satisfied. Hopefully your SCSI adapter works fine, so then Millennium should be recognizing your AKAI and communicate to and from it.

However, when you have a 64-bit operating system, what you think works may not work. Most versions of Win7 and Win8 are 64-bit, and are designed so seamlessly that you may not even know they are 64-bit.

Millennium is a 32-bit program, which 64-bit operating systems run fine. Where you run into problems are ASPI and the SCSI adapter.

• ASPI: The ASPI we supply is technically 32-bit and responds to Millennium fine. However, it may or may not communicate with the SCSI Adapter, which has to be 64-bit because it is hardware and it's drivers must be 64-bit. See below.
• SCSI Adapter: SCSI has diminished in usage greatly, and SCSI adapters usually don't have 64-bit adapters. I personally have never seen them. Many people use expensive USB-SCSI Adapters. Those avoid the 64-bit problem, since the USB standard isolates that, but then your ASPI still has to adhere to it and 32-bit ASPI may not recognize it. You can use a 64-bit version of ASPI by grabbing a package called ForceASPI 1.8 and reading the content to force 64-bit ASPI to your system. Rename the wnaspi32.dll in your Millennium folder and it may work.

If you have a SCSI card in your computer, and you are running a 64-bit Windows, a good test is to see if it really works is to hook up a SCSI ZipDrive or whatever and see if you can format it to computer format, and then give it a drive letter (or let Windows do it) and write a file to it. Once you've done that, you can be sure your SCSI card or adapter works. Then get ASPI working. Then Millennium MAY work as well.

If you have any questions, contact Rubber Chicken Software Co. at [email protected] or 320-235-9798. We are happy to help, but please understand that that our position is, if you are smart, just get a XP 32-bit equipped computer and use that. It's SO MUCH easier. Use old computers with old samplers.

Call or e-mail us and give us SPECIFIC information of the problem. Please understand that the program will be no longer coded, but we can help with system-related issues. Please also understand that we know of no significant - or any - bugs in Millennium.