Hardware samplers

[Matt Seil]

Funny you say that!  I bought a blackbox mainly to decrease my
DAW-dependence.  I've just started working with it--there's some synth
features I find myself desiring--but setting up loops and recording
playing at the speeds that the blackbox allows me to work at makes it
feel much more like when it was just me with my lonely MC-505 back in
'98.  Everything is instant feedback. 

My productions took a huge hit in the move to DAW based recording. 
Instead of 6-7 song ideas in an evening, that became per week.  It
remains to be seen how this translates.  6-7 song ideas per evening
MIGHT result in 1 finished recording in the end.  It was 1:1 with the DAW. 

I'm still learning the blackbox, there's some synth-like features I'm
missing, but overall its very organic and flexible.  [For me the biggest
pain in the butt is the lack of odd time signatures in song mode.  4/4
is all you get.] 

On 9/19/2021 12:22 AM, Ibi Sum wrote:
> No, I’m going to say Synthstrom Deluge or 1010music Blackbox, both of
> which are very, very cool instruments worth the effort. As samplers
> go, both are superlative.
>
> In fact I think I’ll get rid of everything and just focus on the
> Deluge.  Just kidding, almost really though…
>
> ;
> --
> seclorum 
>
>> On 18.09.2021, at 23:37, Matt Picone <matt at mysticworks.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Yeah, I was biting my tongue, but I'm with Tony. Huge time sinks.
>>  
>> -- 
>> M@
>>   
>>  
>>  
>>
>> On 9/18/21 5:35 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:
>>> I’ve always moved hardware samplers.  It really depends on what you
>>> want it for, and you’re willing to deal with the fact they were
>>> convenient before computers mainly took over the job, but now the
>>> workflow can be cumbersome. 
>>>
>>> Tony
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>>> *Subject:* Hardware samplers
>>>  
>>> 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
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