A4000
Digital professional sampler

The successor to the A3000.  The A4000 (and its bigger brother, the A5000) is an exquisite-sounding sampler.  It's truly a powerhouse and comes with a very large library of sounds on CD-ROMs.  This line of samplers came out in 1999, just before the soft synth and soft sampler craze started.  The on-board effects in particular, make this machine very unique, and its "sonic character" is warm, imparting some sort of "analogness" to sounds sampled into it.

This sampler was embraced by the dance community - especially because features like loop divide, and the numerous great-sounding effects make it especially adept to House, Dance, Techno and Trance.

The Yamaha A4000 comes with four demo floppy disks, and several CD-ROMs full of sounds:

Demonstration floppy disk 1 ''A4000-A5000'' - A presentation of the on-board filters, functions and FX

Demonstration floppy disk 2 ''Rainkiss'' - A nice dance track, typical late '90s style.  I hear some Mr. Oizo influences

Demonstration floppy disk 3 ''A-Dream'' - A great Trance tune

Demonstration floppy disk 4 ''CheckMe!'' - A powerful hip-hop number

Stream all audio demos below:

The A4000 also comes with a CD containing software and the rest of the tracks are high-quality samples taken from popular sample CDs, from noted sample manufacturer AMG.

Available at http://www.yamaha.com

• Review in "Keyboard magazine" Janfebmarch 198___

• Powerful synth engine and FX;
• Vast library of sounds included
• Easy to use once learned the OS;
• Expansion capability