Hardware samplers

[Andrew Tarpinian]

The only reason I see to get an old hardware sampler is if all your other bases are covered for making music and you want something for color. And if that’s the case you want it as low quality as possible. They sound amazing and I love them but would never want to make music solely on them. Peter you would be better off getting a Deluge, or Digitak or MPC one or something. These are great for using samples as osc sound sources. Or an S2400 or Polyend Tracker if you want to get old school about it. 

Or https://tal-software.com/products/tal-sampler

https://www.inphonik.com/products/rx950-classic-ad-da-converter/

> On Sep 18, 2021, at 5:29 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
> 
> So I just watched a video by Espen Kraft about his Akai S700 sampler that he bought when Reagan was still president. Sampling at a ridiculously low sampling rate of like 6.3 kHz, it sounded remarkably good. Also, Paolo "SynthMania" had a video about sampling CDs that I found enlightening.
> 
> Now I've always been dismissive of samplers, associating them with "ah yeah!" and orchestra hit samples, in the worst of 1990s dance music, but when you think about it, they're just synths with very flexible oscillators – provided, of course, that the rest of the synthesis engine is up to snuff.
> 
> Now Jay is going to say Yamaha A4000/A5000, and those have the advantage of using IDE drives. But what hardware samplers would you say are musically interesting?
> 
> Hey, the 20 year anniversary is coming up, as is my birthday, and Christmas... 🙂
> 
> - Peter
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