yamaha A4000 sampler

[Caelum 7]

I've had the A5000 since it first came out. It is very nice for tweaking samples, the fx is killer, and the multi-mode filters sound good. Also, the analog outputs are very warm sounding, and I've found that this sampler sounds much fuller than any softsampler playing the exact same samples. The downside of this device is that it is notoriously slow in loading samples via SCSI. I use a Yamaha external SCSI CD drive, and it can be quite painstaking to load & save a large amount of samples at a sitting. You definately need extra RAM and an internal hard drive installed to get good use out of this sampler.