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lastsound
post Sun 22 May 2005, 20:47
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Hi all, am new to this board, and thought Id start the ball rolling with this question:

which sampler (soft or hardware) gets the coveted `all-time best` award...

it can be personal taste, or general `everyone knows it has to be this one`...


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NicholasFaith
post Fri 6 Oct 2006, 22:59
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I really can't pick one over the other, they all sound different and are used for different things.
I have and use An Emax se., An Emax II, An EIIIX and E4X Turbo, an Akai S-1100 and a Kurzweil K25000rs. First sampler I used was a fairlight II CMI. It was a beast and I really had nothing to jugde it against. from their I got my own sampler, a SCI prophet 2000, the Emax a SP202 or SU10 (they both were used as scratch pads and were sold off not long after I got them.) Followed with ther kurzweil and everything else.
I use the Emu's and the Kurzweil for things with more of a synthesis based need (filters, lots of modulation routings) The Emu's are Best Suited for bass and low midrange, or anything that makes use of it's filters.
I know the Akai's catch a lot of flack but I find them usefull for things I don't want to change much and play back fairly close to the source material. The Effects can also be used to warp sounds into washes of ambience (think FSOL) playing back drums/loops back and running them through a tube EQ and compressing them makes for a good match. I find the Kurzweil is the real workhorse, it's truly a great synthesizer with the added sampling, you can take a sample and process it through the algorithms and use many types of synthesis to make a sound far more complex then a sample alone could ever yeild.
I'n short., we live in an age of software, in which our favorite and least faorite pieces of sampling hardware has bottomed out in price, so buy a few things and find uses for them all their own.
In closing, I also use a kontakt/Reaktor/trio of macs set up and I always find myself going back to the hardware, sitting on the floor twisting dials, we live in fairly good times.
I have a question for everyone here too, starting off I always sampled from the machines interfaces and as time went by ended up using a few sample editors and then midi-dumps, then scsi dumps.but, Lately even though terribly more time consuming I'm finding myself sampling through the samplers A/D converters and interface more and more. has anyone had a similar situations?
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- lastsound   Greatest Sampler Of All Time   Sun 22 May 2005, 20:47
- - lastsound   I'll start the ball rolling...for me personall...   Sun 22 May 2005, 20:48
- - lepetitmartien   Mhmm Emu Ultra family here. But I think there...   Sun 22 May 2005, 23:05
- - lastsound   QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ May 22 2005, 22:05)Mh...   Sun 22 May 2005, 23:40
- - lepetitmartien   I'm still trying to understand how people can ...   Mon 23 May 2005, 02:46
- - editbrain   mpc2000 or 1000 and an asr-10   Mon 23 May 2005, 22:20
- - johntennant   S3000xl. From leads to bass to drums, it does ever...   Mon 23 May 2005, 23:32
- - lastsound   QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ May 23 2005, 01:46)I...   Tue 24 May 2005, 00:03
- - cornutt   I don't know that I have ever encountered any ...   Tue 24 May 2005, 19:09
- - lepetitmartien   QUOTE (lastsound @ May 24 2005, 01:03)interes...   Wed 25 May 2005, 01:10
- - vaal   Ensoniq ASR-10 with Waveboy software. Hands down...   Wed 25 May 2005, 03:55
- - jmax   I have to vote for the Casio FZ-1. Although it wa...   Wed 25 May 2005, 15:26
- - johntennant   now THAT sounds neat. How much memory does it have...   Wed 25 May 2005, 16:07
- - lovemusic   I saw this topic talking about Samplers, and I hav...   Fri 8 Jul 2005, 13:56
- - lovemusic   I've been notice that no one is answering me. ...   Tue 12 Jul 2005, 14:07
- - Jsegura   Mellotron.   Tue 12 Jul 2005, 15:56
- - johntennant   Too bad it doesn't have USB support. -J   Tue 12 Jul 2005, 16:53
- - Jsegura   Very heavy but very good.   Tue 12 Jul 2005, 17:41
- - lovemusic   Tanks friends for your cooperation! S-50 in...   Thu 14 Jul 2005, 03:09
- - Mesrine   If your looking for a great warm and clear sound g...   Sun 30 Oct 2005, 15:30
- - lepetitmartien   A good trick to make a crappy sounding S2000 sound...   Mon 31 Oct 2005, 05:57
- - jeroleen   I do not want to be insulting but I find it remark...   Wed 30 Nov 2005, 04:44
- - peabreu   The S3000XL is very good for percussion I agree it...   Fri 10 Feb 2006, 00:50
- - Fader8   Well, the Mirage definitely gets my vote! OK, ...   Tue 10 Oct 2006, 23:00
- - lepetitmartien   Trouble is, Mirage floppies can't be replaced…...   Wed 11 Oct 2006, 02:25
- - gloriaonley   That was a GREAT cup of coffee and I haven't b...   Sat 10 Nov 2012, 05:48


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