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>>I'm more apt to buy a unit that I think has
a lot of interesting or usable sounds and go from there.<<
I stopped using samplers about 8 months ago. a couple of weeks before going to the states for our first gigs there, I bought an esi4000, the idea being that we'd use it instead of a pair of esi32s we have. I fitted it with 128Mb of ram and a syquest and it broke down while we were rehearsing. in a fit of pique, I decided to port all the important stuff onto a ram card for an alesis s4 module instead. this worked fine, and aswell as forcing us to be ruthless with the number and size of the samples, allowed us greater flexibility in terms of modulation and patch building/layering.
so last night I finally got around to some esi maintenance- fixing the syquest drives, migrating some banks onto zip instead and so forth, and in the course of this work, I had cause to audition a few of the longer samples. I was horrified to be reminded just how sterile they sounded, like little recordings of something rather than a note from an instrument (and this from a mellotron owner!). so they are all back in storage. I now have three s4's, a supernova rack, an expanded audity module and a planet earth. somehow, they feel more like instruments than the samplers do.
just my three pennies worth.
duncan.
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