Hardware samplers

[James Coplin]

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.

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.

James

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On Sep 18, 2021, 4:58 PM, at 4:58 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>You have have not been on ebay in a while, have you…
>
>> On Sep 18, 2021, at 5:56 PM, James Coplin <james at ticalun.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Anything Emu and the later Akai series are amazing and super cheap.
>The later Akai also used IDE drives.
>> 
>> James
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>>> On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:29 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?
>>> 
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