Have a look at the sp12 turbo. Its the exact same machine as the sp 1200 except it has less sample time and no internal hard disk, but its half the price. If you just want the sound, that should do the trick..
thats interesting, I have resampled using my DAW with a wardorf package but it sounds real boomey.
I have tried resampling on the MP but even if i change the freq and bit rate it dont seem to do a great deal