<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto" style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">I meant the Akai samplers. The Emu that are not the e4 Ultra are reasonable. The ESI series are cheap and even e5000 and e6400 have been going for $500. The e4 Turbo is also really cheap. The Akai stuff is even cheaper and quiet frankly I think they are better samplers. The Z series in particular was fantastic. And, I have been on ebay and Reverb a lot because I have also been tempted to get a hardware sampler again.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">That said, the workflow really doesn't make much sense any longer. I ultimately decided against it. Things like Kontakt, Maschine, etc really make much more sense. Maschine in particular is incredibly fast and immediate to work in. Ultimately, as much as I think I would like to have a sampler again, I suspect the reality would be that I would hate it.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">James<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:58 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <<a href="mailto:andrewtarpinian@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrewtarpinian@gmail.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;">
You have have not been on ebay in a while, have you…<br><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 18, 2021, at 5:56 PM, James Coplin <james@ticalun.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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>
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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><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>music-bar mailing list</span><br><span>music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</span><br><span>http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar</span><br><span></span><br><span>Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html></span><br></div></blockquote><pre class="blue"><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>