<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>I think there is a chance that sampling is dead as a standalone device, but that it will stick around as a rudimentary audio process in workstations for some time. Wasn't it true that the era of samplers occurred because computing power for the job just wasn't there yet?</div><div><br></div><div>Of course there is the argument that we are experiencing stagnation with synthesis as a whole, too. The only place left for innovation it seems is in the area of performant control - and if someone comes up with something revolutionary in that realm then sampling and the control of samplers is a good first fit for the methods. I look at the waveedit demo for multitouch tables as an example.. This really is a superlative means of controlling a sample based system so maybe we will see sampling return as an art form rather than an edit form soon enough ...<br><br>;<div>--</div><div>ibi sum</div><div>::: top quotin' from the pocket :::</div></div><div><br>On Sep 26, 2008, at 23:01, "punkdISCO" <<a href="mailto:forums@punkdisco.co.uk">forums@punkdisco.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Been thinking about this for years, and it is not a unique
thought.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">If you were in the market for a hardware sampler today,
there are none!! Sure, you have the MPC type desktop things by various
manufactures and, you have the workstation synths with samplers, but where are
the samplers!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Im not saying that there is any obvious need for a sampler
today; its nothing that a laptop cant do, but somepeople have laptop anxiety,
especially when playing live.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">In case anyone suggests that there might be a sampler
reserrection, like the analogue reserrection, I don’t buy into
this. Samplers suck and, unless they have some little gimic like analogue
filters and low bit rates, there is good reason for fully loaded machines now
selling for £100 on ebay.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">But anyway, I just think its strange and probably very
unique how a complete generation of musical instrument can become obsolete,
with no chance of every regaining any favour or popularity.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">My cupboards also house a old Emax1 SE Turbo. I keep
meaning to rig it up to my MMT8 (cupboard) as a little jamming sampler rig.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Anyone anticipate a new sampler ever being released again?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Paul</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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