[linux-audio-user] suggest a synth

[Ryan Gallagher]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 02:34, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 21:27, vord wrote:
> Well, there's little or no point in buying a hardware sampler if you
> wanna create new sounds; i currently own an Alesis QS6.2 and, while it's
> an excellent sampler on its own (high praise to Alesis for creating an
> instrument that's robust, straightforward and appealing), it's not
> appropriate for creating new sounds (well, no sampler is, by
> definition). Some people appreciate a sampler (those who want to play
> existing sounds) but some other people, me included, just want to tweak
> knobs and come up with new stuff. I'll probably put the QS6.2 on eBay,
> it's in like-new condition.
> 
> If you wanna play samples, you can just get a few CDs with sounds, run a
> soft sampler such as Specimen on your computer, get a cheap but good
> MIDI controller, and that's it.

Also, to help illustrate some of the more frequently overlooked features
of samplers in general, I put together a simple feature matrix.

http://ruinaudio.com/sample_feature_matrix.html

Could be an interesting point of discussion since there's suddenly so
many software samplers for linux being developed.

-ry