Ok,sampler Heads.....

[GRRAVEE]

if you had 1200 bucks to put into a sampler,which would you go with.triggering it with a td-10.or would you wait till you had 2500 to invest?i'm speaking of hardware samplers ofcourse.i know this is a bit vague but i'm looking for any range of imput anyway.




yours truly,
GRRAVEE-C.P.O

[GRRAVEE]

cool,that's about what i've been hearing.my buddy is the one who's gonna get the hard sampler.me..i'm eyeing the softsampler route.doing my research and whatnot.i'm kinda drooling over that kontakt software.thanks for the info man.

[Reevo]

Originally posted by GRRAVEE
cool,that's about what i've been hearing.my buddy is the one who's gonna get the hard sampler.me..i'm eyeing the softsampler route.doing my research and whatnot.i'm kinda drooling over that kontakt software.thanks for the info man.

http://www.ektopia.co.uk/sounds/

[jrcel]

I've been very happy with the Emu E4XT I picked up used last year. I bought Sonic Reality Interactive Drums and Drum Doctor II CDs for it and the sound quality is second to none. The Machine came with 9 CD roms which has most of the sounds from the entire Proteus line as well as Procussion and a bunch of high quality sounds of every kind. I also bought a high speed scsi cdrom drive and the unit came with a 2 gig internal hard drive and the Esynth Rom board installed with 16 meg of sounds. The hard drive was loaded with sounds as well. I paid $950 for it on Ebay and it's been a great investment, I won't go back to modules, ever. Just do a search for sampler on Ebay, you won't believe what there is there.

[ddruma]

This being my first post, I must say that I own a roland S-760 that I've had for about 7 or 8 years now...cost me $2200.00 when I bought it(full options) kinda outdated now but you can find them for $350 on Ebay now, what a heartbreaker...but the still sound great and are crossplatformable(if thats a word) with other sample CD's. Just my $0.02's.

[GRRAVEE]

lotsa info there guys.........i appreciate the feedback.i really do.ya,kontakt has my intrest aswell as that e4xt.the roland is probably as solid as any,but the learning curve and support are going to be concerns of mine.we shall see.man i love this stuff.getting stuff is almost as fun as using it.

[GRRAVEE]

i see the z8's on ebay are coming in around 12to 1300 w/270+ ram......drool.

[jrcel]

A sampler really is a long term investment, take the S760 for example. You can still get very high quality professional sounds for it and it's older than the TD10, I think. It's just a computer that does one or two very specific things, records and plays back sound and maybe sequences. I don't think anything sounds as good except a software synth, and longevity, forget about it. There are new CD rom titles comming out literally every day for all formats. The E4 converts Akai disks very well without doing a single thing, just load and play from scsi with proper maping already there. I gave up using the DTX for interfacing, the velocity was strange and it wasn't as fast as the manual said it is. I went back to the Drumkat, it still works the best for this function.