Akai's S01 Midi Digital Sampler. It seems almost obsolete these days. Released in 1993, this 2-space rack unit offered 8-voices of polyphony, and 1 MB (expandable to 2 MB) of sample memory for about 15 to 30 seconds of sample time. Yeah, it's pretty weak, but for the time it was an excellent entry-level sampler or even as an addition to your S-1000, S-1100 or MPC2000.. The S01 from Akai Professional is an 8 voice 16 bit digital sampler. It features an expansion to 2 megabytes with a sampling at 16 bit with a sampling frequency of 32 khz equal to just over 30 secs. It also has 8 banks to store up to 8 sounds in each bank ready to play back
The S-01 is probably the most under appreciate Akai--it's 16-bit but only has a 32Khz sampler rate (even S-900 went up to 40 Khz) plus NO anti-aliasing filter (the thing that keeps it from sounding grungy) so it's basically the last lo-fi vintage sampler that Akai made. Do the SP-1200 pitch up trick and you get some nice aliasing.. Akai S01 Manual. Items for Sale on Reverb. Akai S01 vintage sampler with Gotek USB ($192.86) Akai S01 professioneller Midi Digital Sampler Kultgerät Studio - weiss ($277.94) Akai S01 MIDI Digital Sampler 1993 - White ($395.93) Akai S01 MIDI Digital Sampler 1993 - White ($204.20) Akai S01 Professional MIDI Digital Sampler Audio Operation.