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Ok,
I've spent a couple of days with the VP9000 and I'm thoroughly unimpressed.
Basicly, it's a sampler combined with recycle, and obviously designed for people
with >masses< of money to spend, but mysteriously, no access to computers
and software solutions.
As far
as the actual functions you can perform, it's rather limited - pitch and time
compansion doesn't get very extreme, and isn't anything you couldn't get from
software tools 1/10 of the price. The quality of the sound isn't amazing; no
better than you can get with the better software tools, such as Protools or
Prosoniq Time Factory.
It's
better than Acid at pitched instruments and does have this
neat function called 'groove', which alters the timing of rhythmic
samples from triplets to 2/4 time. It's pretty transparent, but
nothing you couldn't do with other tools, if you >ever< needed
to.
The
sound also has that 'tubby' roland feel to it, and voices warble and artifact
easily, but not enough to be interesting; no different from any other kind of
shifting gets..
It
might not be too bad as a live 'rhythm' sample player, but I'd be much happier
triggering midi instruments from a laptop or doing all the time shifting
before I got on stage, if I had to loop, and using a regular sampler at 1/2 the
price for a lot more toy. It's not designed for live playing; no tap tempo,
sampling and encoding take time and the UI isn't laid out for quick buttoning.
The box is a overpriced
dog.
<rant mode
off>
bIz
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