ADAP SoundRack

ADAP by Hybrid Arts, an acronym for Analogue Digital Audio Processor, is a professional 16-bit hardware DSP which turns your Atari ST into a full blown sampler.  The ADAP SoundRack, beginning life in 1985, was unveiled in 1986, launched in '87, and is capable of handling 16-bit stereo samples up to a sampling frequency of 48 kHz.  Designed from taking inspiration from ST Sound Digitizer, it connects to the ST via the cartridge port and also provides support for MIDI SDS.  This then, made it the first 16-bit stereo sampler for the Atari TOS series, and one of the earliest 16-bit stereo samplers period, with high end competition from the 16-bit daddy that is the Synclavier, the CMI Fairlight Series III and the E-mu Emulator III.  Certainly a contender for the first affordable 16-bit sampler along with the Casio FZ-1, and preceding the Akai S1000.  Note, this is not a D2D / HD recorder, that functionality became available with the next incarnation of the ADAP, the ADAP II.