Samplers are dead(?)

[Aleix]

Hi,
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).

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.

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.


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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Niall Munnelly <aleph at aleph-null.net>wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:18:38AM +0200, M-.-n wrote:
> >
> > I seriously hope they do, not sure they will tho.
>
> O, I have no idea if they will; I just think they're in the
> best position to do it.  Paul's assessment, that it would
> probably be closer to the MD or Mono than an E-Mu Ultra
> sampler, is spot-on, though.
>
> > >I think Elektron are poised to make a killer sampler.  We
> > >can hope.
>
>
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