<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>For me, samplers are not dead at all. Although you will not find any only-sampler stand-alone device from the classical manufacturers, I think that there are a lot of artists using them yet (not me, I'm using Kontakt and EXS nowadays).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think that classical hardware classical vendors have not adopted an open view for designing new stuff compatible with compatible standards like fat32 filesystem, soundfont and kontakt file compatibility, usb/firewire connections and of course, integration on host sequencing software (running as a plugin), all in a reasonable price and with an operating system build from the scratch to get the best performance in terms of audio latency, fast loading times and rock-solid stability.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In fact, if you want a portable sampling system based on a computer, you'll spend more than $2000-3000, if we consider using a firewire 800 external hard disk, a enough powerful laptop computer and also all the software costs.</div>
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<div> *</div> */</span></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Niall Munnelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aleph@aleph-null.net">aleph@aleph-null.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:18:38AM +0200, M-.-n wrote:<br>
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> I seriously hope they do, not sure they will tho.<br>
<br>
</div>O, I have no idea if they will; I just think they're in the<br>
best position to do it. Paul's assessment, that it would<br>
probably be closer to the MD or Mono than an E-Mu Ultra<br>
sampler, is spot-on, though.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> >I think Elektron are poised to make a killer sampler. We<br>
> >can hope.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">--<br>
Yours,<br>
Niall.<br>
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