<html><head></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">Anything Emu and the later Akai series are amazing and super cheap. The later Akai also used IDE drives.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">James<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:29 PM, Peter Korsten <<a href="mailto:peter@severity-one.com" target="_blank">peter@severity-one.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue">So I just watched a video by Espen Kraft about his Akai S700 sampler <br>that he bought when Reagan was still president. Sampling at a <br>ridiculously low sampling rate of like 6.3 kHz, it sounded remarkably <br>good. Also, Paolo "SynthMania" had a video about sampling CDs that I <br>found enlightening.<br><br>Now I've always been dismissive of samplers, associating them with "ah <br>yeah!" and orchestra hit samples, in the worst of 1990s dance music, but <br>when you think about it, they're just synths with very flexible <br>oscillators – provided, of course, that the rest of the synthesis engine <br>is up to snuff.<br><br>Now Jay is going to say Yamaha A4000/A5000, and those have the advantage <br>of using IDE drives. But what hardware samplers would you say are <br>musically interesting?<br><br>Hey, the 20 year anniversary is coming up, as is my birthday, and <br>Christmas... 🙂<br><br>- Peter<br><hr><br>music-bar mailing list<br>music-bar@lists.music-bar.org<br><a href="http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar">http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar</a><br><br>Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <<a href="http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html">http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html</a>><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>