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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. > _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail