I've found an AKAI s2000 for free. What to do with it?
 

Yes that's right. some peolple give their old equipment away. Until now I've sampled everything on my computer but is there any advantage of such an old sampler? A Characteristic sound or something? Please tell if there's something funny to do with it, or is it just junk? It's very big and takes a lot of space. Gets pretty hot after a while, maybe could use it to warm my hands in my cold studio. 8O

Nice for free! - that's for sure.

1st: Grab a SCSI card and hook the thing up to your computer.

2nd: Hook some sub outs/alt outputs from your desk to the ins of the Akai - that way you can sample anything from the mixer to the Akai instantly (I think the Akai can auto normalize and truncate too, which saves button pressing). Much easier than recording audio into the computer IMO - plus you can play it straight away!

The Akai's have a nice tone IMO, specially when it comes to snappy drums.

If you can't be bothered setting that all up, or if you are using all software and can't intergrate the sampler. Feel free to send it over to me! :D

So what else was he/she throwing away?

A midi interface and some cables. The guy has produced some for Celine Dion, so he doesn't really care about small money I guess...

:o

Grab what you can!