Akai is following Teenage Engineering and Casio with a new portable sampler.

Retailer Alto Music has leaked a new portable sampler by Akai that looks inspired by the company’s MPC60 and MPC3000, according to Synth Anatomy. The streamlined $399 Akai MPC Sample will pair 16 pads ...
Engadget

Teenage Engineering's K.O. II groovebox is feature-rich and only $300

Teenage Engineering is a company that follows its own path. It’ll release a $250 toy car one day and a full-featured groovebox/sampler for $300 on the very next day. That’s what happened this week.
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Sonicware’s SmplTrek is a battery-powered groovebox for on-the-go beatmaking

Sonicware has stepped into the portable sampler space with its SmplTrek device. The battery-powered groovebox features a built-in mic that'll help you create samples wherever you are. The SmplTrek ...
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Chompi's latest firmware update turns this cutesy sampler into an "entirely new instrument" with an arpeggiator, sample-slicing and more

The Pattern Generator is used to trigger Slice, a new sample engine that automatically slices audio files into 16 segments, ...