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.
Yamaha A4000 audio demos
The Yamaha A4000 comes with four demo floppy disks, and several CD-ROMs full of sounds:
Piano / Keyboards (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-101)
Guitar / Bass (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-102)
Brass / Wind Instruments (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-103)
Strings / Choir (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-104)
Real Drums (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-105)
World / Latin Instruments (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-106)
Syntraxx / Loops (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-201)
DJ / Producer Tool Kit (from the included Factory CD-ROM PSLCD-202)
Standards – Yamaha Professional Studio Library
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.
Yamaha A4000 photos
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Yamaha A4000 manuals
Yamaha A4000 specs
- Powerful synth engine and FX;
- Vast library of sounds included
- Easy to use once learned the OS;
- Expansion capability
| Year of release: | 1999 |
| Sound generation method: | sampling |
| Polyphony: | 64-voice |
| Tone generation method | AWM2 |
| Sampling frequency | 44.1, 22.05, 11.025 kHz, 5.5125 kHz (mono and stereo) |
| Responds to velocity: | yes |
| Aftertouch | yes |
| MIDI: | in, out, thru |
| Sound expansion capabilities: | yes – via CD-ROMs, hard drives etc. |
| Sequencer: | Real-time recording and playback |
| Effects: | yes |
| Controls: | rotary knobs |
| Dimensions: | Two-space rackmount unit W 480 mm x D 461 mm x H 90 mm (18-7/8” x 18-1/8” x 3-9/16”) |
| Weight: | 8.0 kg (17lbs 10oz) |