Re: Sampler as Looper

[Fish <fish@ndirect.co.uk>]

At 11:59 30/01/97 -0800, The Man Himself wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, A.S.P. wrote:
>
>> One question I have is: Are there any samplers that will work as real 
>time
>> loopers?  To me it seems to be a perfect approach - you've got stereo
>> analog to digital conversion, you've got expandable RAM, storage, 
>multiple
>> outs, plus you can use standard MIDI events to trigger/sequence stuff.  

A while a go I posted a lengthly description to the Akai users list of how
to set up an S2000/3000 series sampler with the built-in FX board to do
feedback loops. It basically involved taking an output and feeding it back
into one of the analogue inputs which are patched into the internal FX
processor. The FX processor can be a simple EQ and delay, but you can add
ring mod, phasers, pitch shiter etc. to the chain internally. What's cool
is the 4 band EQ. You can modulate the band frequencies with a slow LFO.
With a nice fat source sound you get a crazy evolving effect as the BPFs
sweep through the frequencies bringing out harmonics which get fed-back
through the loop, to be processed again, by which time the BPF has moved on
and a new set of harmonics appear, and so on...

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Fish
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