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MPCs little brother with mixer, all in one box.
This is a rarely seen Akai sampler from the 90s. It’s in great condition and has been tested and all buttons, pots, faders working.
I’ve owned this for years and used it for pre-production work and it sits very well with DJ kit and a stack of vinyl. Just connect to the DJ mixer outs, or even connect the turntable directly as there’s a mixer built in and its very quick and easy to sample and get some beats going. Its a super fast workflow, no deep menu diving or anything. All the commands are printed on the unit so you hardly need to use the manual.
The sound quality is very useable, whether you select the higher sample rate for cleaner samples, but with some detuning and lower sample rate you’re into classic hip hop territory. The scratch fader is good for effects, though obviously not the same as doing your own vinyl scratches. You can sample anything of course, cd’s, laptop etc though I’ve usually worked it the old-school way.
Floppy disc drive is the original and working fine, though you could change out for one of the USB, flash drive designs as some others have done.
This unit hasn’t been gigged, but its so solid and built like a tank, I’d have no worries taking it onstage.
I don’t have the printed manual but you can download it from Akai.
No floppies supplied, but it doesn’t need them to run, only for saving things.
Here’s some words from Akai:
Feature List
A stereo sampler designed specifically for phrase sampling and DJ live performance
16-bit linear stereo sampling
16 pads for triggering sampled phrases
“Hold” mode to automatically repeat beat loops
Bend/Scratch slider
Flexible Monitoring section allows auditioning and sampling from turntable or CD
Familiar Crossfader and Transformer buttons to control input/output mix
Tap tempo
Four-track sequencer
Built-in floppy disk drive for sample and sequence storage
2MB of RAM standard
Powerful (but easy-to-use) editing
Sample compatibility with the entire range of Akai’s “S” series samplers
Industrial-strength replaceable sliders
A tough metal housing that’s equally at home in a coffin or a studio
Featuring the mind-bogglingly hip Beat-Loop function
Makes it easy to synchronize multiple phrases
For each phrase, input the number of beats and the desired tempo
The REMIX16 instantly adjusts the phrase to play at exactly that tempo
Expansion options
SCSI interface for connection to large hard drives and CD ROMs
Additional 16MB of RAM using a standard 72-pin SIMM
REMIX16 Stereo DJ Phrase Sampler
The cool and the not-so-cool
Whether you’re a DJ working live, or creating rap, hip hop or house in the studio, you know phrase sampling is a key ingredient in your music. Beat loops. Vocal and instrumental phrases. Outrageous sound effects. These are cool. What’s not so cool is trying to do phrase sampling on a sampler that was designed to let you program the world’s mellowest multi-sampled oboe. You know what we mean. Endless menus. Too many modes. Scrolling through cryptic parameters. It’s the antidote to spontaneity.
Enter the Akai REMIX16
For ten years Akai has been the world leader in sampling. So when we set out to design the ultimate phrase sampler, we drew on our experience creating landmark instruments like the legendary MPC60 and MPC3000. We talked to leading DJs and producers. And what we came up with was a piece of gear designed to do one thing — sample, loop, synchronize and mix phrases– better than anything else in the world. (Well, maybe that’s actually four things, but you get the idea.)
Where the groove never ends
With the Akai REMIX16, you’ll do things live that you’d never dream of trying with any other sampler. Start by using the built-in floppy disk drive to load up some pre-sampled phrases, Play them from the 16 pads. Put a few beat loops on hold to establish the groove. Play some phrases over them. Bend some sounds. Scratch others. So far, so good. But say you decide you need a little something more for your mix. Something on a record you haven’t sampled.
No problem.
Just switch the REMIX16’s headphone monitor over to Input, cue up the turntable, sample it, loop it with a single button press and add it to the mix!
“But wait,” you say. “What if that phrase doesn’t match my tempo?”
Ah, ye of little faith. That’s why we included the mind-bogglingly hip Beat Loop Function. Just input the number of beats and the desired tempo and the REMIX16 instantly adjusts the phrase to play at exactly that tempo.
We can hardly believe it ourselves.
But wait, there’s more!
Of course there is. Since the REMIX16 is from Akai, there’s plenty more. Like a 4-track sequencer to record your performances. Powerful (but easy-to-use) editing. Sample compatibility with the entire range of Akai “S” Series samplers. Industrial-strength replaceable sliders. And a tough metal housing that’s equally at home in a coffin or a studio.
And if you’re one of those people for whom too much is never enough, you can add more sampling memory (using a standard 72-pin SIMM) and an optional SCSI interface that lets you connect your REMIX16 to large hard drives, CD-ROMs and other SCSI storage peripherals.
Sample Data Format: 16 bit linear, stereo or mono
Sampling Frequencies: 32 kHz, 16 kHz, 8 kHz
Standard RAM: 2 megabytes
Maximum RAM: 18 megabytes
(expandable with a 4MB or 16MB 72-pin SIMM)
Sampling Times
with 2MB RAM:
32kHz: Stereo: 15 seconds, Mono: 30 seconds
16kHz: Stereo: 30 seconds, Mono: 60 seconds
8kHz: Stereo: 60 seconds, Mono: 120 seconds
with 18MB RAM
32kHz: Stereo: 146 seconds, Mono: 292 seconds
16kHz: Stereo: 292 seconds, Mono: 584 seconds
8kHz: Stereo: 584 seconds, Mono: 1168 seconds
Polyphony: 8 voices
ADC and DAC: 4th order delta/sigma, 64x oversampling
Sequencer: Four tracks, approximately 30,000 steps
Sample Compatibility: Can load samples from Akai S900, S1000, S1100, S2800, S3000, S3200, S2000, S01 samplers
Data Storage: 3.5 inch 2DD/2HD floppy disk drive
Inputs:
Phono in: 2x RCA jack, 47k ohms impedance
Line in: 2x RCA jack, 47k ohms impedance
Footswitch: 1/4″ phone jack
Outputs:
Line out: 2x RCA jack, 270 ohms impedance
Headphone: 1/4″ stereo phone jack, 100 ohms impedance
MIDI: In, Out/Thru
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