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kim, drew et al, > >Drew Skyfyre wrote: > >Anyone here use a Yamaha SU700 ? Seems pretty powerful, though I've come > >acroos reports of system freezes. Assuming that it has pretty >comprehensive > >MIDI implementation (which most Yamaha units seem to have), then under > >control from a sequencer or MIDI foot control pedal board, it could be >used > >like an Echoplex. Plus the SCSI option means that loops can be saved > >directly to hard disk/removable drives & there are resonant filters, >68MB > >RAM, 3 effects processors, & a max of 64 voices, or in this case, >actually > >tracks. kim replied: > I watched a guy demo it at the NAMM show. (so I don't have any hands on > use.) Unlike the echoplex or other real-time samplers, you can't sample > something and immediately have it looping in rhythm. There are some steps > in between, so it won't be seamless for a performance. right: its not. i had one of these for a week or so: this box is clearly *not* performance oriented, in regards to doing any kinda 'live' sampling. >(When I asked the > guy doing the demo about this, he said, "why would anybody want to do > that?" He was completely baffled, thought I was nuts for for wanting to > sample stuff live...:-) So in that way, it is fundamentally different > from echoplex, jamman, etc. It might not let you sample new stuff while > it's playing back either, but I don't remember that point now. Better to > compare to Roland SP808 or Akai MPC2000, other devices more oriented to > live sequencing with precreated samples. Watching him use it, it seemed > powerful but the interface seemed kind of clumsy and slow. i found the user interface architecture to be kinda: how can i say this?, uhhh..... opaque. cool sound manipulation possibilities, though, from an 'after-the-fact' perspective. >But like I said, > I didn't use it myself and this was almost a year ago. Seems to me that > someone on the list here has/had one, maybe they can give a better > explanation of the good points. best, dt