Hey GF, Thanks for the link. I checked it out and the units seem promising. They mentioned the ASR10 in the same article. Have you been able to get the help you needed with your ASR10? I'd like to get one, but I'm not quite looking for a full size sampler in keyboard form, yet. I'm surprised that no one who has responded, has any expierences with the Akai units first hand. Thank you all for your responses so far. -----Original Message----- From: Goldfingas [mailto:goldfingas@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:58 PM To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [midi-mag] Advice on a sampler drum machine combo They still make them, in fact, they just released the mpc 2500. Its kind of pricy, but you can pick up an mpc 2000 for about $600 if you know where to look. There is also the mpc 2000xl, 3000, 3000xl, and 4000. If you want more information about these models. Try google. Or my other favorite... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page GF -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Chapman [mailto:gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:23 PM To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [midi-mag] Advice on a sampler drum machine combo akai used to make things like this called mpc2000's and/or mpc something thousnads. but I'm going back a while, and dont really know what the current state of such gear would be now. several porta studio type products like zoom and korg make, have drum machines and pads for triggering them, built into them now, but I doubt they'd be samplers really. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aregullin, Manuel" <Manuel_Aregullin@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:26 AM Subject: [midi-mag] Advice on a sampler drum machine combo > Hi everyone, > I'm looking for a unit which has a sampler and drum machine in a > single unit. I'm not looking for a keyboard because I'd like to put it > in my suit case and travel with it. I'm totally blind, so I'm just > asking to see what some of you have out there have. Rather than asking > what is accessible, I'm > just looking to find out what units some of you use and find > relatively straight forward. > I'm looking for something to help me compose ideas if I'm away from home. > > To unsubscribe, send a message to: midimag-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.midimag.org/ > To unsubscribe, send a message to: midimag-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.midimag.org/ To unsubscribe, send a message to: midimag-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.midimag.org/ ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq