Hey, great response, thanks to everyone. It may be the one in the first response picture shown, quite a few decades ago now since I even thought about it. Certainly that sort of form factor case and definitely did have rotary dial controls.
I read a little while ago that to actually get the best possible samples it is best to use an 8 bit sampling method rather than convert 16 bit samples (which on the plus side are easy to extract digitally therefore perfect). Before that there is a gap of a few decades since I last thought about Amiga sampler reviews/ratings

Long story short I wanted to carry on where I left things off at the end of the 80s doing creative things with my OCS Amiga ie I knew how to do all sorts of graphical things but apart from a few times recording audio samplers I never really explored it which is a shame because 8 bit doesn't necessarily mean bad audio quality as a source for musical instruments. Digi-view definitely benefits from using modern digital solutions as source but perhaps with audio it is not the case and it will be fun to test that claim out too.
Hence I need one of the best (ie least degrades input audio quality) hardware samplers out there. As someone mentioned the audio quality of Technosound II is not great but I seem to remember a couple units were rated highly in roundups for the sound quality (using like for like input signal and connecting cables) in a round up. DSS+ was also another one.
I will have a look through my old magazines, I also recently got about 100 Commodore mags and half still have cover disks sealed and still stuck on the front which I need to go through so we might get lucky
