Re: Gary hall

[bruce tovsky <bruce@skeletonhome.com>]

> The Akai S612 (1986-87) was a 6-voice sampler that could be used to 
> capture and manipulate loops live.

well, i beg to differ on the 612. as a former owner (and lover) of a
612 i must say that, while it was revolutionary, it really couldn't
work "live" any more than any other sampler. what it did have was
a very cool user interface - just two sliders - that allowed you to
set your start and end points live. so, yes, it could do live 
manipulations.
for a totally awesome live sampling experience i would have to
place the publison at the top. to my knowledge it was one of the
very first digital delay/samplers that had a keyboard, and it could
to incredible sample stretching and manipulation, similar to the
'format' samplers of the present. totally mind-boggling circa the
mid-80s. i listen to stuff i did with it back then and i still wish i 
had
it around!
cheers
bruce