BaronEstelle
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I'm a real fan of these things. I think these units are the pinnacle of hardware sampling and I also believe that the independent filters, the big phatt ones, particularly the 4 pole. I don't think software sampling can touch them. I've got a 5000 with the polyphony bumped to 128, a SCSI CD rom and drive. I've also been using the software on an old XP machine but would it's shaky.
The USB upgrade to the samplers technically allows what they used to call SMIDI to shoot the sound from the computer to the memory of the sampler. That seems like the
cat's meow but I am not able to get that to work yet. I'd also like to build a SCSI array and put drives, keep them cool, enough to support live performance without having to hire a security firm
and arm them with USB fans to keep it cool. If anyone here knows about all this I'd really like to talk shop, this is greasy stuff, the sound is so cool, and such a payoff for the effort.
I'm expecting hardware samplers to make a comeback while enjoying the benefit of high speed data transfer and more stable media. the SCSI days, thank goodness are well behind us
but I never minded getting the Adaptec 2940 PCI card rolling, that was fun. Sound Forge did allow SMIDI transfers to take place but it was awfully unstable in Win 2000 and earlier and that
SCSI card could easily BSOD the whole machine, even in 2000 Pro. Man those were fun days.
The USB upgrade to the samplers technically allows what they used to call SMIDI to shoot the sound from the computer to the memory of the sampler. That seems like the
cat's meow but I am not able to get that to work yet. I'd also like to build a SCSI array and put drives, keep them cool, enough to support live performance without having to hire a security firm
and arm them with USB fans to keep it cool. If anyone here knows about all this I'd really like to talk shop, this is greasy stuff, the sound is so cool, and such a payoff for the effort.
I'm expecting hardware samplers to make a comeback while enjoying the benefit of high speed data transfer and more stable media. the SCSI days, thank goodness are well behind us
but I never minded getting the Adaptec 2940 PCI card rolling, that was fun. Sound Forge did allow SMIDI transfers to take place but it was awfully unstable in Win 2000 and earlier and that
SCSI card could easily BSOD the whole machine, even in 2000 Pro. Man those were fun days.
