The Akai MPC2000 (eBay) was the first of the series that Roger Linn wasn’t involved in developing as the company didn’t want to continue paying him royalties for using his name. The MPC2000 is a 64-track sampler/sequencer that comes with 2 MB sample memory as standard, and can be expanded to 32 MB. It supports a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, in 16 bit stereo or mono.