Retro samplers (Page 1 of 2)

I have E-mu E4xt Ultra here with harddrive and everything but it's just gathering dust

The wooliest around: the Roland MKS100 (S10 rack version) 4 seconds of sampling divided over 4 samples

Sequential Prophet 2002/2000 -more of a synthesizer with build in waveforms, the grungiest analog filters and VCA and also arpeggiator...I dunno why I sold it

AKAI S900 /& MPC60 I also sold those dunno why...I really liked that MPC60 way more then 2000XL

I still want a S612 with the diskette station

Wasnt there an AKAI S700 or S712 something like that? An updated S612?

The x-7000 is the keyboard version of that s-700, you want?
Kom maar halen hoor

hehe

I have ASR 10R and soon gonna pick up S750

of old ones

EII
EIII
Emax rack SE HD
SP12
ADD one with ADD Drive
PPG with WTB

still im bit crazy about S550 and casio !!! dunno why!!!

I found that s50, s330, s550 serie better for drums than ANY AKAI!!!!

for a long period we used the akai s900 with trigger-board. Excellent for fat lo-fi drum(loop)s and voice samples. Instant fun while triggering with the tr606, who needs midi?! ;-)

and sp1200 ofcourse!

YES.  That sounds like a match made in sampler heaven.

i never tested EPS or EPS 16 vs ASR 10

how big are sound differences..I know specs of all of em!!

the eps is a lot warmer and fuller sounding.

its like eazy e's line in eazy duz it, he shot pluh then i shot kaboom bang, as you can see i cold smoked his ass.

Roland S-10 with the plastic carrying case.  Wish I'd kept it
Roland S-760 - very smooth sounding but a pain to edit due to the small screen and over sensitive push/scroll button, chucked it in a skip.
Akai S3000.

my first sampler was a casio sk1..
then i bought an ensoniq mirage. 8 bit, mono out, hexadecimal counting.. great fun..
next came the tx16w. liked it, apart from the edit buffer, you really had to remember copying sounds from the buffer to the memory and then the disk otherwise you'd save an empty patch on disk. this and the mirage are all over my first bunker records.
then i bought an emax II, great machine but it broke, and i could trade it in for an asi-32. still have that, though i don't do much with it...

it would be great if some of the old samplers could be upgraded to accept wavs and have usb or something..

My first was Mirage DSK 8

I loved it for years .. it sound great but editing is limited..I consider it more like synth than sampler heheheh

yeah, at the time my mirage was the only sampler i had (and an atari, an ms10, poly 61 and dx-100) so i didn't know any better.. then i got the TX which had an actual display! the luxury..

those death race samples must have come from the TX, because there's no way the mirage could do such long samples, heh heh..