best sampler?

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just curious if anyone has an suggestions on samplers that dont need computers.
i was looking at the electribe n such.
i just want it for drum beats and weird synth sounds and i want it to be pretty flexible.

thank you.
 
With everyone switching to computer based samplers a Akai S5000 can be found used for under $400 US and thats pretty much the shit when it comes to samplers. Beyond that, for beats the MPC's are pretty much the standard these days. (See an Akai trend here?)

"groovebox" samplers (like the electribe) are kinda limited for anything other than short samples and don't really give you the control (as far as envelopes, slicing, looping etc) that a "real" sampler would have
 
The two "standards" are the Akai and E-mu offerings. Both have pros and cons, and the argument as to which on is "the shit" is kinda like the PC vs. Mac or analog vs. digital arguments. They're all wrong. The best samplers are the Kurzweil K2xxx series :D
 
That was a personal opinion :) interface is good, they are laid out pretty logically, and they are best of all cheap. Whats not to love?
 
how about the boss 303? or the yamana SU 200? any andvices for these two pieces?anyone
 
I guess it depends on what you are trying to do, if you want single sounds or drums than those will work fine, but if you are looking for doing chords, strings and beyond than those will be a little limited
 
i don't know really much about samplers,
but those i know are the akai s5000 which is a pretty fat beast,
and indeed, for loops, drums and hiphop stuff, the akai MPc's rock !
a few friends of mine got MPC's and i don't know how its possible but those old machines give such a fat sound to the loops !
the mpc2000 has real slow 'loading' times for loading songs,
but besides that its cool, you can hook up harddiscs, cdroms, zipdrives to it via scuzi, nice nice !
and the newest models (like the mpc 3000) even got usb !
 
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