Hardware samplers

[Andrew Tarpinian]

You have have not been on ebay in a while, have you…

> On Sep 18, 2021, at 5:56 PM, James Coplin <james at ticalun.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Anything Emu and the later Akai series are amazing and super cheap. The later Akai also used IDE drives.
> 
> James
> 
> Get BlueMail for Android
>> On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:29 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
>> So I just watched a video by Espen Kraft about his Akai S700 sampler 
>> that he bought when Reagan was still president. Sampling at a 
>> ridiculously low sampling rate of like 6.3 kHz, it sounded remarkably 
>> good. Also, Paolo "SynthMania" had a video about sampling CDs that I 
>> found enlightening.
>> 
>> Now I've always been dismissive of samplers, associating them with "ah 
>> yeah!" and orchestra hit samples, in the worst of 1990s dance music, but 
>> when you think about it, they're just synths with very flexible 
>> oscillators – provided, of course, that the rest of the synthesis engine 
>> is up to snuff.
>> 
>> Now Jay is going to say Yamaha A4000/A5000, and those have the advantage 
>> of using IDE drives. But what hardware samplers would you say are 
>> musically interesting?
>> 
>> Hey, the 20 year anniversary is coming up, as is my birthday, and 
>> Christmas... 🙂
>> 
>> - Peter
>> 
>> music-bar mailing list
>> music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
>> http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar
>> 
>> Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html>
> _______________________________________________
> music-bar mailing list
> music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
> http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar
> 
> Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.music-bar.org/pipermail/music-bar/attachments/20210918/a31fac1c/attachment.htm>