Suddi Raval <(Address removed)> said:

you can buy an S1000 for 20 quid today!! WTF! i am gonna get one for nostalgia if nothing else... Hmm? no actually. House is full of enough shite how it is ;0

I know - the price of hardware samplers is completely and utterly bonkers now.  Some very tasty hardware synths can also be got for a song, ditto effects boxes.  If you wanted to dodge the soft-sequence-synth-sampler route and go hardware, there really hasn't ever been a better time... you could probably have a minted S3000 or E6400 (or mabye both!), a couple synths and an effects box or two, all out of £500.  Totally bonkers!

Sadly the MPCs I so desperately desire don't seem to be dropping in price at all.  If anything, the opposite!

cheers,

dave