Xref: utzoo comp.music:3047 rec.music.synth:20406 Path: utzoo!mnetor!intacc!zerobeat From: zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo) Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Sampler Message-ID: <1991Apr10.042721.24723@intacc.uucp> Date: 10 Apr 91 04:27:21 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: Inter/Access Lines: 22 In article sk1y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Shuntaro Kawakami) writes: > >Does anyone know what the cheaperest sampler is? If you do, what is the price? The cheapest sampler is the Casio SK-1 for maybe $200. Radio Shack also sells virtually the same machine but with their name on it. Maybe the American price is a lot lower. This sampler is very,very limited and unless you really like the novelty of that 'piece of sh@@' sound (it has it's place for sure) you might want something a bit more expensive but way more versatile and better sounding. The Mirage sampler came can be had for probabl y $600 at the most and is way more versatile. However, it pales in comparison to samplers like the Roland S50,S330, Akai S900,S950 or even Yamaha and Korg's samplers (# unknown, but they only make 1). These machines can be had for $900 probably and are way, way better than the Mirage. Contrast this with the Emulator 1. It came out in 1982 for $8,000. The Mirage even at the original 1986 price of $2000? was in many ways a better machine. ferenc