Help me buy a sampling keyboard

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I want a keyboard that
a) I can run a 1/4" mic into as a sample source
b) will then allow me to play said samples on the keyboard (a la the Casio SK-1 or SK-5)
c) costs $200-$300

what should I get?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 March 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Answer double for me.

― Matt Chesnut, Monday, 28 March 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean I love my SK-5 but the keys are all fucked up and tiny and the sample quality is for shit. Plus I can't run the damn thing through an amplifier (don't have the output converter). I need to upgrade. I love the pitch-shifted sample effect you get from these sampling keyboards tho.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 March 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

shakey, wanna borrow (buy) my ASR X? it's sitting in my closet collecting dust

it's not the ASR 10 (that has a full keyboard), just a single octave drum pads

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea, I just use a computer (and sometimes a midi controller).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm, thx but I think I need something with a keyboard. I need to be able to play chords n stuff. I don't know much about the ASR X tho.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 March 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"thx but I think I need something with a keyboard."

well you could get yourself a cheap midi controller keyboard and plug it into the asr of course...

― Conor (Conor), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess... do they not make these kind of things in one handy-dandy unit?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 March 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, i've got a cheap midi keyboard also that's collecting dust since my cracked copy of Reason has been telling me i need to insert a disc i don't have. and i have less than a gig of space on my busted old home computer

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ensoniq-archiv.de/bilder/asrx.jpg

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Casio FZ1 was a great all-in-one machine in its day. But second hand hardware has become so cheap. You could do better perhaps with a cheap midi controller keyboard and a rackmount Akai of some kind, eg the S3000XL

― Oak (small items), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a S2000 going for just over £100 the other day. (I was going to buy one 5 years ago for about £700)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly. I hate the S2000 though.. horrible fiddly data wheel

― Oak (small items), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a SCSI cable and use MESA (MAC) or Millenium (PC) to control/save with your computer.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, Millennium, rather: http://www.rpgfan.demon.co.uk/y2k.htm

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Used pro hardware samplers are incredibly cheap right now, b/c the market is pwn3d by soft samplers. Up your budget a little bit, and shop around for an e-mu e5000 ultra or e6400 ultra. I bought an e6400 ultra w/128 mb memory and a 20gig hard drive built in, mint for 300 uk pounds a few months ago, and nb that used gear is cheaper in the states just like new gear is. 2 years ago this machine would have cost me 1500 uk pounds plus. It is an incredible machine, mapping and looping samples is actually quick and a pleasure on it., plus you can do a lot on the fly. one of those little 2 1/2 octave midi keyboards for softsynths will work fine with it and cost next to 0.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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