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