Samplers as loopers?

[matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias Grob)]

Sean o'donnell comes from a different side, saying:
>I was looking forward to sampling, sequencing, quantizing, and keeping
>everything in its
>place.  It was not long before I realized that I was not going to like the
>new machine.
>
>The Ensoniq ASR-10, although a powerful machine, cannot "sample on the
>fly."  I was
>outraged that a $2,000 sampler could not be used to perform the same
>procedures as a
>JamMan or a cheaper digitech FX pedal.  I've found that sequencing and
>quantizing can
>deaden the creative process before it even begins...as well as deaden an
>appreciation
>for anything that is "offbeat," and not predetermined over the time of a 
>piece.

This is a good point. I was amazed too, when I was looking for a looping
device, to see that most samplers have all Hardware ready for looping and
do not care to create the software. So in the future looping could be done
either on multi effect machines, computers or samplers. And samplers have
more memory than multi effects. But the pitch change should be without time
change, right?
Then I imagine it totaly shocking to be able to polyphonically detune
immediately whatever happens on stage!

>My old AKAI sampler had start- and end-point sliders that could be
>reversed simultaneously during sample playback).

I did not understand "reversed simultaneously". How do these features work,
and what did you use them for?


Thanks for joining and bringing new questions and answers
Matthias