“Up for auction is a historic Akai Digital Midi Sampler from 1993, made in Japan.
This 2-space rack unit offeres 8-voices of polyphony, and 1 MB (expandable to 2 MB)of sample memory for about 15 to 30 seconds of sample time. This sampler works just fine in addition to a AKAI S-1000, S-1100 or MPC2000. Sampling specs are 16-bit and 32 kHz (not cd-quality). The sampler only records samples in mono. Built-in 3.5 floppy disk drive lets you store your samples or load from libraries (it has no SCSI interface).
The eight trigger buttons on the front correspond to each of the 8 samples you can have and can be used to trigger them. You can truncate your samples, transpose and loop and even reverse them. The S01 features two MIDI inputs, which can be switched with a switch on the front panel. There’s one mono sample input, one mono output and one headphone output at the front panel and one mono output at the back. Playback and sampling can be controlled with an additional foot-switch which is not part of this auction.” Link
