sampler with flash memory

[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:

> Since my experience last Saturday I am trying to retool my rig to be a
> little more fault tolerant.   My big single point of failure, my M3,
> is going to be retired from the setup.  I want to try and find
> something cheap and portable that I can (possibly) take two of to the
> gig, and break the rig down into a keyboard controller + module setup.
> I hate adding MIDI to the mix, but I think it will be better than
> trying to shoehorn everything into a single board.
> 
> The one big problem I am having is finding anything that, if it gets
> rest like the M3 did, doesnt shut me down for 2 or 3 minutes while it
> power cycles back up + another 2 or 3 minutes loading a sample bank.
> 
> In that spirit, does anyone know anything that can satisfy the following:
> 
> 1.  Portable
> 2.  Rack or small enough to fit on your average MIDI controller
> 3.  Has at least a small amount of FLASH based memory that wont require loading
> 4.  Cheap as possible.
> 
> So far, the best I can come up with would be something like an
> MPC10000.  I dont need a *huge* sample memory, just a 8 megs would be
> fine.  If it does have to be loaded, it should do so as quickly as
> possible and have an autoload capability.
> 
> Any suggestions?

small laptop running linux with SSD - I think these can become pretty almost instant on.

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