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At 12:57 PM -0700 10/23/99, Drew Skyfyre wrote: >Hi, > >Anyone here use a Yamaha SU700 ? Seems pretty powerful, though I've come >acroos reports of system freezes. Assuming that it has pretty >comprehensive >MIDI implementation (which most Yamaha units seem to have), then under >control from a sequencer or MIDI foot control pedal board, it could be >used >like an Echoplex. Plus the SCSI option means that loops can be saved >directly to hard disk/removable drives & there are resonant filters, 68MB >RAM, 3 effects processors, & a max of 64 voices, or in this case, actually >tracks. I watched a guy demo it at the NAMM show. (so I don't have any hands on use.) Unlike the echoplex or other real-time samplers, you can't sample something and immediately have it looping in rhythm. There are some steps in between, so it won't be seamless for a performance. (When I asked the guy doing the demo about this, he said, "why would anybody want to do that?" He was completely baffled, thought I was nuts for for wanting to sample stuff live...:-) So in that way, it is fundamentally different from echoplex, jamman, etc. It might not let you sample new stuff while it's playing back either, but I don't remember that point now. Better to compare to Roland SP808 or Akai MPC2000, other devices more oriented to live sequencing with precreated samples. Watching him use it, it seemed powerful but the interface seemed kind of clumsy and slow. But like I said, I didn't use it myself and this was almost a year ago. Seems to me that someone on the list here has/had one, maybe they can give a better explanation of the good points. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com