«I’m using this with Mennie for an album track we’re doing together. It’s a 2MB memory sampler that can be used to edit and chop samples… very juicy. I got it from Mennie and I’m not sure I’ll give it back. Francesco found this for 100 Euro in an old market in Rome – a very lucky shot»

According to Future Music, this item is listed as used by Tim Simenon on recording ULTRA for Depeche MODE

3rd paragraph 7th line the Akai s1000 is mentioned as being used by this artist.

When Darren's not cajoling the crowd and telling them how "absolutely fuckin' marvellous" they are, he drops in samples and plays ambient fills with a collection of records and a couple of Technics SL1200s. He also reinforces the rhythm track with congas, timbale and a Roland Octapad triggering an Alesis SR16 and S1000.

According to this article on the making of Goldie's Timeless album from the June 1998 issue of Sound on Sound magazine, Playford says, "...there have always been things I like to constantly upgrade. It used to be my samplers. I went from the S950 to the S1000, then up to the S1100, and finally to a S3200. I can't see myself upgrading again soon."

Isham's 'orchestra pit' is, however, no slouch, with several Akais (S3200, CD3000, S1000, S1000PB and three S2000s), three Emu E4Xs, three Roland S760s, plus a selection of older units. "They each have their own characteristics — the Akais have a tremendous transient response, and for percussion they're just brilliant; the Rolands have a warmth about them. I also have so many because of the various different programmers that work in the different formats. Eric Persing of Spectrasonics pretty much works for Roland, and he's just so good that I had to have some Roland gear to take advantage of his wonderful work."

"We used Chris' music studio equipment, which were synths and samplers like Kurzweil K2000RS, Roland JV1080, Korg 01R/W, Korg Wavestation A/D, Akai S1000, Emu Ultraproteus, Ensoniq SQ80, Ensoniq VFX, Korg MS10, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Quasimidi Quasar, Roland JD 990, Waldorf Microwave, Yamaha SY77, Yamaha YS 100 and lots more, mixed on a Yamaha ProMix 01 and a Yamaha 02R digital mixing consoles. We loaded my GM midis into Chris' Cubase and from there it was easy to assign new sounds to the GM sounds. Eating pizza in Chris' studio too, awesome times to make game music! Thanks for your interest! :) Cheers, Fabian"

Can be find in the YT comments in the video link below.

In an interview with Sound on Sound, Mark Shreeve discusses his use of the Akai S1000 audio sampler.

From a 1993 Sound on Sound article: "Stuart (who couldn't make the interview due to a car crash) is also going to be using an S1000 with pad interface in preference to his earlier choice of a Simmons SDSX kit."

In an interview with Muzikxpress on YouTube, Cosmic Baby discusses his equipment and specifically mentions using the Akai S1000 around the 18:30 mark.

Source: Interview with Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti about SNAP! in mu:zines.co.uk from 1994. https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/snap-to-tomorrow/8245

In this image you can see him holding one above his head.