Octatrack

[punkdISCO]

> Is hardware sampling having a renaissance?

Hi - I don't think there will ever be a renaissance of the hardware sampler.
Firstly, its not really like they ever sent away, there are many hardware
samplers on the market and there always will be.  However, they will always
sell in small numbers catering for people with specific/specialist
requirement.

My concern about the hardware manipulation of samples is, outside of Glitch
type stuff, there is not much call for what will always sound 'glitchy'
Sure, there will be creative gains in glitching your ways though sampled
audio and finding moments of genius, but listening 59 minutes and 50 seconds
of standard not-very-musical noise, to then find a 10 second gem of a loop -
this really should be confined to the studio and not a paying audience.  So,
once you establish that that this sort of process is best confined to a
studio, why not use software which will nearly always be far more advanced
with unbounded processing power and memory (well, kind of..)

BUT, these comments are only directed at the possibility of a resurgence of
sampling hardware.  The Octatrack looks fab and it will sell to a very
euphuistic, but very limit number of people.  Like all of Elektrons stuff,
they have to be commended on their ability to ignore the obvious and produce
something that will incite the forgotten underclass of musician.

Ai!

Paul
London
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