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Most Creative Samplers
I am curious as to what you all think are the most flexible hardware samplers for coming up with new sounds? What are the most creative samplers in terms of copying old sounds?
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Re: Most Creative Samplers
for new sounds - the electribes samplers. tons of sample editing and processing options.
not sure what you mean by copying old sounds.
not sure what you mean by copying old sounds.
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I guess I was thinking of lower-bit sounds and which samplers were the most obvious in sounding "old". Like if you could only have one 12-bit sampler for drum loops or grainy choirs, which would it be?
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Yamaha A-Series samplers have a fairly deep synthesis engine that allows for timbral exploration and creation, and I find their effects can be exploited to realize "vintage" sampler artifacts.
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Re: Most Creative Samplers
The V-Synth.
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Ableton's Simpler because you can directly drag and drop anything from an audio track in there.
I do think it should get a high-quality interpolation mode, though.
I do think it should get a high-quality interpolation mode, though.
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Coupled with the sequencer, midi fx and loop remix features, the rs7k would handle drum loops and one shot materials well. Also I like the lo-fi material better than the one in my MC-909. It would also do multiple sampling rate. Glad to have it for the sound, interface and features. Only hope that it has a USB and more memory with faster loading time.
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I would have to say the V-Synth.
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I need to get one of those damn things huh. I just need to figure out which organ is close enough in price.
I don't have an answer to this one myself but the ones I would be most curious to mess around with are the Emulator II, any of the EMAXs, the DSS-1 (FILTER!), and the A5000. One of my favorite albums was made almost exclusively with a Juno 106 and one of the 3000-series Akais...
I don't have an answer to this one myself but the ones I would be most curious to mess around with are the Emulator II, any of the EMAXs, the DSS-1 (FILTER!), and the A5000. One of my favorite albums was made almost exclusively with a Juno 106 and one of the 3000-series Akais...
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Akai S-612 definitely... super cheap and very easy to use.chordmemories wrote:I guess I was thinking of lower-bit sounds and which samplers were the most obvious in sounding "old". Like if you could only have one 12-bit sampler for drum loops or grainy choirs, which would it be?
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Yamaha A-series for flexibility and odd fx, korg electribes simply for ease of use. Samplers become very very creative beasts with continual resampling.
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Emu's Transform Multiply function is pretty cool. Had that on my old ESI-32 and now on Emulator X2. Transform Multiply scans the sonic spectrum of the two samples, emphasizes the frequencies that are similar, and discards the rest. Most of the time junk comes out, but sometimes you get something good.
Neuron VS has gotten a lot of bad press with a hefty price tag for a plug-in, but as a sampler/re-synthesizer it is doing some really far out things. Again, a lot of folks complain it sounds like junk but it can have some awe-inspiring moments too.
Neuron VS has gotten a lot of bad press with a hefty price tag for a plug-in, but as a sampler/re-synthesizer it is doing some really far out things. Again, a lot of folks complain it sounds like junk but it can have some awe-inspiring moments too.
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Yeah, that's my experience as well. Wish Emu could develop this technology further.garranimal wrote:Emu's Transform Multiply function is pretty cool. Had that on my old ESI-32 and now on Emulator X2. Transform Multiply scans the sonic spectrum of the two samples, emphasizes the frequencies that are similar, and discards the rest. Most of the time junk comes out, but sometimes you get something good.