Re: Samplers (was Re: euro?american grovebox

["Jonathan El-Bizri" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com>]

I hear you. However, it's not the tool's fault - it's the commercial 
sample 
vendors, skimping on programming. Also, we've come a long way since akai 
s1000 compatible hell.

bIz


>From: mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Samplers (was Re: euro?american grovebox
>Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:20:39 -0700
>
>I've thought about samplers for years, but I'm not sure if they're for 
>me... I'm not sure why.  I do know that I try to spend a lot less time 
>screwing around with sounds than I used to.  I swear I used to sit down 
>with my Korg DW8000 and tweak until I passed out.
>
>I can't do that any more.  I'm more apt to buy a unit that I think has a 
>lot of interesting or usable sounds and go from there.  Some tweaking 
>here 
>and there, but a lot of my sounds are stock.  With guitar, it's less so.  
>I 
>think I made a decision years ago that I could go on the sound design 
>route 
>or try to spend more of my time doing music.  Of course, I tend to fool 
>with sounds a lot using effects, so they often don't end up very stock.
>
>So samplers always seem like a lot of work to me.  I have a friend who 
>brought over a Roland groovebox-sampler and I hated it.  In the time it 
>took us to sample and tweak the loops I could have made 10 cool loops 
>with 
>my ROMpler based device.  Sure, it's less flexible, but maybe the 
>limitations are good.  For me at least.
>
>Mark
>
>
>On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 11:57  AM, Legion wrote:
>>Idea: Not an all-in-one but what about a sampler? You would never run 
>out 
>>of sounds be they world or otherwise and pretty much every sampler has 
>>tons of free support on the web these days.
>

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