Swerver - thanks for your reply. Of course you are right about the stereo into mono - stupid brainless mistake on my part ... but thanks for pointing it out. I'm now using a twin jack breakout cable into the sampler which has solved the signal problems ...

I understand why you're asking about the ...

I have just purchased an iPod touch (2nd generation) and have loaded some mp3, WAV (16 bit & 24 bit) & AIFF samples onto it with the idea that I can connect it to my Akai S6000 hardware sampler to record the audio of the samples to my sampler.

When I try to record the samples to the analogue input ...