![]() Lots of old sampler stuff out there if you have patience or cheap enough. Yes, I guess Casio was trying to storm the pro market, but their respectable entry came after studios had bought an Akai. One cool thing you could get into with old Akai is the AX60 analog synth with the sampler connector cable. The s612 predates the S900, arguably not quite professional with few features and had an optional quick disk drive which even in their day quick disks were only used by Akai and Roland gear outside of Japan so that meant pricey blanks if you could get them. The first pro sampler for the masses was the Ensoniq Mirage ![]() I'd say the next landmark after the Fairlight was the Emulator (and Emu's exit from analog gear) though still not cheap. The Synclavier is actually older than the Fairlight but the sampling option came well after Fairlight. ![]() The S900 did become the standard for regular pro studios for a while. Usually the nod goes to the high end Fairlight out in 1979. Ndkent wrote:The S-900 being the first pro sampler is extremely debatable. It has an excellent balance between crunchy tone and versatility (the 900 was a bit too simple for my tastes). Out of the Akais my favorite (other than the MPC-60, which is amazing) was the 950. The Roland S-770 sounded even better (fidelity wise, the E3 did better synth stuff though) but the menus and shit are just way too much to stand unless you have a Turbo version. It was easy enough to use but still sounded incredible. I think my favorite sampler was the Emulator III. I used 2 SH-101s and a Juno as tone sources for the samplers. Other than the drums (a LinnDrum and a Boss HandClapper-2), everything else was playing from a sampler. I used the Emax and Emulator III all over this with some sequencing from the MPC-60. Probably the track best illustrating this obsession is my remix of E=MC2 I did last year. I had:Īkai S900, S950, MPC-60, E-MU Emax SE, Emulator II, Emulator III, and a Roland S-770. I am recovering from a similar sampler obsession.
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