can anyone recommend a good sampler, preferably not to expensive. (and a decent amount of memory.)
Now the beauty of the MPC is that it is self contained and so the built in sequencer offers extremely low latencies and the way it works has not dramatically changed, but for those of us who retained our rack samplers (or switched to software) there is no such joy to be had with computers, as they have changed to adopt a bloated latency lagging ass architecture, something you don't really get when using a rack sampler with an old computer like the Atari ST or a hardware sequencer.