Had one, gave it away. Sound quality was S%*#.
maybe thatās why I seldom see them for sale: people are just giving them away! 
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Roland FA-06.
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Jeezums JamesM ā Thatās awesome!
Thirty two trig keys above the keyboard, would be great to change sequences and play on the fly.
Maybe a mode to quickly set start and end and select a sample with all those buttons or something?
Three mod wheels, and two crossfaders too! Maybe some sort of granular synthesis control with those.
I think things like editing samples and setting them and mapping them to keys quickly, has been a little cumbersome on the larger workstations like for instance the Korg Kronos. I think Elektron might do a better job with that as circuitghost noted above.
(I hope riffing on the idea here is OK and not too far off topic.)
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If this came out id buy it in an instant.
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What about an MPC Live with a keystep (or any other USB midi controller)?
The keystep plugs into the Live and gets power via USB, so itās battery powered too.
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How about a Roland S-10? Itās a great sounding sampler, lots of good options for editing the sample, very nice keybed and very well built. Also, excellent built-in arpeggiator. No sequencer, but it would be fun to pair with a vintage standalone sequencer. If you see one for sale online though, please donāt bid on it; Iād like to have a second one and I want to buy it cheaply.
Here is a great video showing it being used.
https://youtu.be/F1cZLXM1Ick
Itās easy to find ensoniq ESPs for not a lot of money in good condition if you want a great sounding keyboard/sampler and donāt mind floppy disks or installing an aftermarket storage solution.
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Thatās not how this works cowboy 
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Check this Akai beast
Also look on the Kurzweil K2000 series
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Lol Iām just joking of course, scoop one up if you see one! Great keyboard.
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ASR10ā¦ made all kinds of tracks on it for years, big on sound and resample thru fx. Really one of those samplers that transposing up or down adds unique flavors.
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I had started a post to list the S-10 which was good for itās day ā 1986!
Please nothing personal about this Hawk ā iām sure thereās some very good sound in this machine still.
But so everyone can realize how good we have it now, thirty plus years later i quote this from vintagesynth:
āā¦ 12-bit, 30kHz sample-rate. With only 256k of internal memory spread over 4 banks (64k per bank) you get a maximum sample time of 4.4 seconds (1.1 seconds per bank)ā
Fortunately the 4 sample banks translate to 4-part multitimbrality in which the 4 banks can be played simultaneously, split and layered across the keyboard and so on.
Further edit parameters include sample trimming, looping, reverse, tuning, envelope editing, filtering, velocity effects and hi-pass or low-pass filtering.
There was a 15 kHz sample rate too if you needed to step up to a max sample time of 8.8 seconds and want to sound like a ātelephoneā. Plus you had the luxury of loading samples from a non-standard 2.8 inch floppy drive. Very speedy, that.
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From our dear friend Harry Nyquit (the Nyquist rule) the 15 kHz sample rate gives a maximum frequency of 7.5 kHz. Thatās what i mean by telephone.
Ahhh the good old days.
I think sabana has a good idea ā there ought to be a modern sampling keyboard.
At this point in time and space, Iād get a 1010music BlackBox or a Digitakt and a Keystep.
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Black Box isnāt great for polyphonic content. Voice stealing and clipping takes away from an otherwise great experience. It can do four voices per track simultaneously, but when weāre talking pianos and stuff, it just doesnāt work that well. Not in my experience, at least.
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Oh nothing personal taken Jukka, it really is an ancient machine 
but youāre very right, there are some great sounds to be had from it as long as you put great sounds in. The specs are amazingly primitive, but in use itās very sophisticated with most options you could want. Sampling dexed in 15 kHz mode sounds really nice.
I think a modern sampling keyboard is a great idea, if you made something with a lot of direct control focused purely on sampling, with great built in effects and multiple sampling enginesā¦ Really, Iād be super pumped if an update was released for the Digitakt that would enable some sort of poly mode.
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SK5?
ASR10s can be had pretty cheap.
Prophet X is kind of like a sampling keyboard.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the OP was workstation keyboards. This seems to be the only type of keyboard you can buy today that has integrated sampler, and is still in production.
I am assuming the type of sampler that the OP wants is the usual types of sampler found in a keyboard workstation:
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Key-mapped sample loader and player, like OP-1ās Sampler. A typical preset has multiple samples of the same thing (eg. a piano, organ, etc), with different samples recorded in different pitch ranges of the thing. Generally preferred for playing chords/polyphonic sequencing.
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Drum sampler, like OP-1ās Drum Sampler. Typical preset is a drum kit with each key triggering a separate sampled drum or other thing typically used for making beats (scratches, whistles, etc.). Most demos/tracks Iāve heard of the Octatrack seem to utilize the OT in this manner. Type 1 above is not the OTās strength.
I still have my Korg M3 workstation but have barely used the sampling functions. I find the sampler to be quite unfriendly - had to watch several videos to learn how to use it. Then again, I just donāt have the patience for Type 1 sampler useā¦ and the factory multisamples of polyphonic instruments are just way better than anything I could record myself.
Korg Kross 2 might be the cheapest keyboard workstation in production at about $750 new. No idea if the sampler is easier to use than the one on my M3. Surprisingly, none of the other major keyboard makers offer anything in this price range. Korgās Krome competes with Rolandās cheapest workstation keyboard in the next price range, which is $1000-$1500.
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