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I could also recommend the Akai Z4 or Z8. You can expand it up to 512 meg which means you have a lot of sounds to play around with before you have to load again from the hard disk. I find the architecture very easy for me to use. You would have to connect an external CD drive or load sounds directly from the computer via usb. The Akai interface software has been easy for me to use also.
 

I am thinking of buying a sampler, but I do not know much about them. I would be buying second hand in New Zealand so it would probably be be 4-5 years old and would be a very popular model. Being a small country there is a very limited choice of musical equipment anything even slightly unusual is not likely to be imported.

It would need to be simple and load from CD rom and connect via usb to a midi keyboard.

If anyone can help with advice and has the time to answer some questions, please contact me off list.

Thanks

Mark