The Mellotron Group

>  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.
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> 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.
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> It would need to be simple and load from CD rom and connect via usb to a midi
> keyboard.
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> If anyone can help with advice and has the time to answer some questions,
> please contact me off list.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
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