So my s2400 is lonely. Was wondering what the closest modern alternative to the s950 was (maybe it would also be the s2400 if brad would make that filter board already lol).
Well it depends on what you are looking for, if you are looking for a polyphonic sampler that can do multi samples then the Blackbox is the only thing that comes to mind. If you looking for that 12bit old school sampler vibe that also does the above I don’t believe there is anything like that on the market. I would love someone to start making something like that though.
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SP2400 seems likely
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I would say the squid salmple is the go to if you are ok with dipping into modular. It doesn’t have time stretch though but you can fake stretch through rapidly triggering slices. It really has the akai vibe (it was designed to be like a S950 according to ALM), ALM also makes a filter based on the S950 but I find the built in digital filters plus smashing it into ALMs EQ enough to warm it up for me. Getting a system set up for this kind of play is likely to run you about the same as a SP2400 but you can more or less get things set up to have full recallability the way the squid is built.
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not sure if anything exists like that, maybe the new mpcs come closest because they have some sort of legacy mode. the 1200 had a classic sound but also had a decent/usable workflow so made sense to revive it. those rack samplers are far from fun to use so not sure if anyone would go through the trouble of recreating one
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Yeah, I kind of think you are right, a modern mpc might be closest. Yes, you really use it for the sound and not the workflow :-). The timestretch on the s2400 is good, but really missing the s950 filters (and an lfo) :-/.
I plug my SP-16 sampler into OTO BIM thru mode.
I will pitch up my sounds by one semitone and I pitch down the loop by one semitone. Closest feel I get to my dead MPC60 since OTO uses real 12 bit converters
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I will experiment with this over the weekend, sounds like a good way to get 12 bit. And if I remember correctly I think Denis said the delay knob controls sampling rate when in thru mode (the higher the delay the lower the sampling rate). Maybe put the boum after it for a nice low pass filter… hmm might be a little clean, but you might be on to something here…
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I had the same idea last year and tried to build a glorified “Eurorack S950”.
After buying and trying out the ALM Squid Salmple and the Mum M8 Filter I ditched the idea… The magic behind working with my beloved S900 is the whole process in my opinion. Having the crunch after sampling a sound, transposing it, shaping it with your ears and not your eyes, filter it, that’s the reason for me to use the S900. The Squid Salmple has a different paradigm and having only one Mum M8 Filter isn’t the same as setting a filter value for every keygroup independently.
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Yeah, watching that video above reminded me again of why I sold most of my eurorack stuff. Tiny knobs and cramped interface. I think getting an s950 might just be the way.
I will have to wait a while though. The good news is I think we have hit peak crazy prices on samplers and prices are going to start dropping. Overpriced samplers on reverb are not selling anymore, and already some prices have started going back down. I feel sorry for the people who bought 15k sp1200s, their drop was sped up a lot by the rossum and I have now even seen fully functioning units sold for under $5k.
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Rossum SP1200 preordered here. I too would like something like a S950.
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I have actually been getting more and more into sampling and beatmaking and looking at different samplers makes me drool now. I’m really thinking about selling some of my synths and ordering an sp1200. Although I really love the s2400 and can’t really justify getting an sp1200 as well. Then maybe I would need an mpc 60 or mpc 3000, then an s950 and s612, then an asr-10, then an sp303, than a … lol.
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I sold the S2400 to fund the SP1200 and some🙂
Ive always wanted one and the S2400 got me most of the way there except its not a SP1200 or doesnt pretend to be.
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Kind of Surpised to hear that, I feel like my old akais rarely get used because I consider them way more fiddly to me and just endless menus. Squid is quite easy to get around compared to old rack mount menus. Also the lossy editing with the sample rate reduction 
… There are some neat tricks unique to the S900/950 though not found in the squid but the reverse is true also. Part of my reasoning for going PE-1 over the MUM8 is with the digital filters per channel you may as well just warm stuff up with an EQ and overall more open shaping over the tracks but yeah I suppose it starts to diverge a bit more at that point if you are after the exact s950 sound. Personally Squid has made me think of my old akais as more nice studio pieces fun to pull out occasionally but also relics of the past in many ways, they aren’t like SP1200s which are very direct to work with.
If anyone wants to go the squid route I think my set up recommendation would be, mmMidi + mm1, Pams new workout, AXON-1, Squid, PE-1, Tangle Quartet and HPO. But obviously you could pick out similar modules from other manufactures. I personally have the MFX as a compressor on the end which is 
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