I'm thinking about getting a hardware sampler for live and studio useage.

The kinda thing I'm aiming for is along the lines of MBV, I know they used some kind of Akai unit on Loveless, God knows what they use these days.
The sort of thing I'll be doing is recording 10-20 seconds of ambient type stuff and short (1-5 secs) blasts of noise. Maybe sampled talking and radio stuff. And playing back vocal samples at different pitches to make bizarre melodies.

I like the look of the Akai S3000, but any advice is very welcome as I don't really know what I'm looking for and I know next to nothing about samplers, especially hardware ones.

Anything capable of doing the above is good, and I would also like advice of various methods of playing back the samples.
Atm I'm thinking a MIDI foot controller would be best for the job.

What do you think?

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The older Yamaha a3000 and A4000 samplers are a bargain. The a4000 is loaded with tons of cool effects for tweaking samples...

A cheap laptop (running Ableton) and a midi controller might be another option worth looking at.

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um/... i think they used the akai for the drums as the drummer had terrible stomach ulcers.

not for guitar syff, maybe i am wrong

also using the akais, u'd be loading fro floppy disc in sound checks. it'd be an idea to get a laptop [if you trust them] i have an s2000 which is fine, but small VDU so difficult to chop wavs

imo - go to a different forum dedicated to live PA stuff and ask them. [akai mpc is better though?]

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A Digitech Jamman or the Boss SP series of samplers would do this just fine

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I use an MPC1K for sampled stuff and it's ace for the money, more than capable of playing back a few noise and vocal samples at different pitches, it's just not very practical if you're planning live sampling and manipulation. you need to change mode to record on it so for on the fly stuff a laptop would be much more capable, but if its just playing back pre recorded stuff it'd be fine. you should be able to trigger one with anything that sends midi notes

I was just thinking that you could just use a Boss RC-2 instead. Have individual banks for each loop and be able to trigger by foot. send the signal into the mp3 jack when you want to record the sample and it will play back through a quarter inch jack. I didnt recieve a manual with mine, but I'm sure there is plenty of weird stuff you can do with it, especially with being able to record up to (11 or 16?) min. Also overdub parts for added dissimilarities!

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you can do that, although you'd need an external double momentary footswitch.

Wouldn't be too hard to do.

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