The AKAI S5000 is a professional digital sampler released in 1997 by the Japanese company Akai. It was one of the first samplers to use the new SCSI technology, allowing users to connect external hard drives to the sampler for storing large amounts of samples. It also featured a powerful 32-bit processor, 32-voice polyphony, and 32-bit digital-to-analog converters. The S5000 was popular among professional musicians and producers, and it was used on many popular albums in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The AKAI S6000 is a professional sampler workstation released by Akai in 1996. It is a 16-bit sampler with a maximum sampling rate of 48 kHz and 32-voice polyphony. It features a range of inputs and outputs, as well as a range of effects and editing...