Akai is following Teenage Engineering and Casio with a new portable sampler.

Retailer Alto Music has leaked a new portable sampler by Akai that looks inspired by the company’s MPC60 and MPC3000, according to Synth Anatomy. The streamlined $399 Akai MPC Sample will pair 16 pads ...
Engadget

Teenage Engineering's K.O. II groovebox is feature-rich and only $300

Teenage Engineering is a company that follows its own path. It’ll release a $250 toy car one day and a full-featured groovebox/sampler for $300 on the very next day. That’s what happened this week.
Engadget

Sonicware’s SmplTrek is a battery-powered groovebox for on-the-go beatmaking

Sonicware has stepped into the portable sampler space with its SmplTrek device. The battery-powered groovebox features a built-in mic that'll help you create samples wherever you are. The SmplTrek ...
The Verge

Roland’s Aira Compact P-6 is a portable sampler you can almost squeeze in a pocket.

It’s the latest addition to the company’s Aira line of portable music makers and is primarily designed as a sampler allowing musicians to record and edit up to 48 samples and piece them together into ...
MusicRadar

Chompi's latest firmware update turns this cutesy sampler into an "entirely new instrument" with an arpeggiator, sample-slicing and more

The Pattern Generator is used to trigger Slice, a new sample engine that automatically slices audio files into 16 segments, ...