sampler with flash memory

[Andrew Tarpinian]

Anyone want a SU-700 fo' cheap? It's a dealer open box, the stop button was a little funky, didn't always stop when you hit it, might be the contacts are just dirty.


On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:20 PM, komatos <komatos at comcast.net> wrote:

> Yamaha SU10 or SU200. Both a very simple samplers, flash based,  
> limited RAM. SU10 came out around 1998/99, SU200 around 2001/2002.
> 
> --komatos/wasted
> 
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:
> 
>> The laptop has the problem that its a laptop.  With a laptop, you also
>> need some kind of audio adapter and they are sometimes electrically
>> noisy on stage.  Then there is the whole question of software..
>> 
>> The octotrack is just overkill for this application, though one would
>> make a great addition to the modular setup..
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Tarpinian  
>> <evildead at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Octatrack!
>>> 
>>> I'm full of helpful suggestions!
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