Akai Sampler with removable front interface with owners manual

This is a good sampler that I inherited from my brother who was heavily into his sampling. I have only used it myself to record live DJ sets and found the quality great. Although I have a hardware based studio I sample mainly using software so would rather pass this on to someone who can use it to its full potential, and that will allow me to sort some new equipment.

The sampler has been kept in a 19U Rack flightcase so is in good condition.

This has a large selection of input/output options, the removable front panel that connects via a usb cable to give handy editing/assigning options, upgraded hard drive and ram, and the capability of working 24bit/96khz this is a great bit of kit.

Loading samples to and from a computer is fairly painless via the akai's akysys program.

Below I've listed the specifications, if there's anything you'd like to know I'd be happy to discuss. I've also listed a link to the sound on sound website for a full detailed review.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jul02/articles/akaiz8.asp

The youtube link shows how the removable interface can save space and allows easy access to all the functions of the sampler to hand. I

The price is a rough estimate and I'm open to suggestions.

Z8 SPECIFICATIONS
• Sampling formats: 24- or 16-bit at 44.1kHz, 48kHz and 96kHz with 64-times oversampling A-D converter and 128-times oversampling D-A converter.
• Memory: 16MB as standard, expandable to 512MB using 168-pin DIMMs.
• Polyphony: 64 voices (32 voices when system clock is set to 96KHz).
• Multitimbrality: 128 parts.
• Envelope generators: three digital envelope generators.
• Filters: three two-pole filters with resonance, 32 filter types.
• LFOs: two multi-wave LFOs.
• Connections: Record In (two balanced quarter-inch jacks), Stereo Out and eight assignable analogue outs (all on balanced quarter-inch jacks), headphones, two MIDI Ins, two MIDI Out/Thrus, SCSI (50-pin connection), S/PDIF digital I/O, two USB sockets (one host socket, one slave).
• Multi-effects: four-buss design with more than 40 effect types.
• MIDI: 32 channels.

If your interested please get in touch.

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