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The introduction of a " professional " range of digital samplers which the S700 / X7000 started, continued with the appearance of the 12-bit S900 in late 1985.

The 16-bit Akai S1000 followed in 1988.

The latter was replaced by the S3000, which notably featured a writeable CD-ROM and hard disk recording, and was followed by the S5000 and S6000.

Additional releases of note were the Z4 and Z8 24-bit 96 kHz samplers.