Low cost, top quality, no bundles sounds, easy to use, 16 virtual outputs. Diskstreaming in version 2.7. 100 % Customer support, by mail or forum. Never had a single crash. Loads SF2 good, not tried Akai. Removes unused samples from RAM. Even if you only want SF2, and not a Soundblaster card, this sampler does the job. Demo available. Free sounds at their web-site ( or Hammersound.net) Ver. 3.0 under developement, can't wait..... :-)
Just upgraded to 2.7, with better docs, GUI (now hiding pages I dont need) Even comes with a couple of presets from the VSampler song contest. Some of the actually good. Only users of VSampler has delivered sounds.