Re: Newbie needs help with his sampling scenario

[Hedewa7@aol.com]

r,
re: yer msg, below:
try any of these?
zoom tabletop sampler, korg electribe tabletop sampler (es1), yamaha 
tabletop 
sampler.
also: soon coming: the electrix repeater.
or:
a laptop running lisa, reaktor, battery, acid 3.0, etc.
also: soon coming: raDiaL.
best,
dt / splattercell

>Hello all. nice to be here.
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>Here's my dilemma.
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>I want to trigger monophonic samples with a footswitch. Simple request
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>would think.
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>Years ago, I used to use any number of digital delay units with a 
>"sampling"
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>feature that would allow you to sample something then hit a footswitch
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>trigger it. Hit it again, and it starts from the beginning. You don't have
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>hold the switch down. you don't have to do anything special. Just hit the
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>switch and hear the sample.Great. 
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>I got greedy and wanted storage so I could call up each sample for each
>song 
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>in my live set.things got complicated.
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>I bought an archaic Akai S612 sampler. Yes, very cheap. It was incredibly
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>lo-fi (to my joy) and worked pretty easily. I had MIDI Solutions build
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>custom MIDI footswitch controller that sent a NOTE ON message at a certain
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>note number and NO NOTE OFF, so it would play the complete sample all the
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>through (the samples, by the way are usually three second/one or two 
>measure
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>guitar parts...kinda like MBV or Curve type things)
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>My rig now works like it should.However, I'm sick of carrying 4 rack 
>spaces
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>of antique technology. I'm sick of having to load samples from a Quick
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>at the beginning of EVERY song, and I'm sick of the sampler not working
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>it doesn't feel like it.I would LOVE to replace it with a newer cheap 
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>alternative. Something the size of a Dr. Sample would be nice, but I 
>couldn't
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>get the Dr. Sample to work like I want it to.
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>Does anyone have any suggestions?
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>Another way to describe what I want is instead of using guitar samples,
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>wanted to trigger drum sounds (not loops). You want to hear the complete
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>sample when you hit the pad/switch, and retrigger it monophonically (not
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>polyphonically) everytime you hit it. Besides a $1000 SP808, what could
>I use?
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>Thank you
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>Roger