One of the hardest things, for me, working with certain samplers is just conceptualizing a general understanding of the hierarchy inherent to the unit itself. Sure there are some similarities, but each sampler has its idiosyncrasies that must somehow be learned. Often this is a side effect of these...

Indeed, some vintage samplers do no interpolation at all - they change the crystal clock speed on the fly to change the playback rate. This is a very characteristic sound that is quite difficult to emulate. But you'd need as many of those clocks as you'd want to have polyphony, right? Correct. Each...

The sampler was an Akai S950. The year was 1990. The first three things I sampled were a female friend of a friend doing some "aah"s and "ooh"s, me playing a cor anglais, and water-tuned edge-rubbed wine glasses.

I'm not counting things I sampled with a Macintosh years earlier.


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Ian

User upgrades? Macs? LOL!!! If you are into DIY stuff and getting the most bang for your buck (i.e. upgrading processors, video cards etc) over a long time frame ...you don't buy a Mac. You buy a Mac knowing that it'll last you years of headache free use. To be fair, the mac pro is just as user ser...

Also, does it still work like the older S series samplers where you don't actually have to copy a sample to use it multiple times? Yes, and this is brilliant, IMO. Once you build a sample, and even partial, they are ready to use in any number of later patches, all with near-zero load time. Needless...

This was interesting and I must admit that I did not know this. I assumed all interpolation tricks were either nearest-neighbour because of speed (which would explain the rougher character), and that later samplers got enough horsepower to do this kind of stuff in software, and better/smoother. Ind...

One of the things that makes the EMAX II so nice are it's transposition filters - even single samples played over the entire keyboard sound good. Some of the nicest samples I ever made have been on EMAX II. It's a very forgiving, smooth sounding sampler - great for instruments but maybe not quite s...

The overall sound is nothing less than fantastic. The filters are the same ones found in the S-7x0, SP-700, JD-series, and DJ-70-series. As far as the MIDI timing, I don't know what its response time is - but it has never given me reason not to use it for percussives. The nature of the sound is such...

Graham:

The info you have provided is much appreciated. Thanks.


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Ian

I have and use a CP-251 Control Processor, MF-104SD Super Delay, MF-105 MuRF, and MF-105b Bass MuRF. Yea, to me the sound quality justified the price I paid, even without use of the CV. That said, these pedals truly come *alive* when using the CV in that they begin to respond in a cohesive manner th...

What they said. +1

I know my Waldorf MicroWave XTk30 is going nowhere!


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Ian

Sony MDR-7506.

I use them every day, and they tend to last ~7 years. I'm on pair #3 since 1987.


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Ian

Really--if an Andromeda, Macbeth, Omega, MKS 80 or Moog is "too bright, too harsh, too cutting, etc.", it may be time to be either less picky, or far more willing to pay ridiculously huge amount of dollars for acquisition and maintenance of old, decaying beasts. Or it might just be time to turn dow...

Logic, Metric Halo +DSP, and Numerology are three audio reasons I prefer a Mac.

High-end graphic arts workflow and tools are another reason I prefer a Mac.

Nothing wrong with a PC though, and if I used one for music I am sure I would adapt to the situation.


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Ian

What do you think of MusicRow Vintage Strings MkIII: http://www.mcrow.net/Vintage%20Strings.htm ? I did not care for the sound at all. It didn't sound like a stringer to me. Where was the buzz of the divide-down osc tone, and where was the ensemble swirl? A big miss, IMHO. Do you prefer Stringer's ...