On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 02:34, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 21:27, vord wrote: > Well, there's little or no point in buying a hardware sampler if you > wanna create new sounds; i currently own an Alesis QS6.2 and, while it's > an excellent sampler on its own (high praise to Alesis for creating an > instrument that's robust, straightforward and appealing), it's not > appropriate for creating new sounds (well, no sampler is, by > definition). Some people appreciate a sampler (those who want to play > existing sounds) but some other people, me included, just want to tweak > knobs and come up with new stuff. I'll probably put the QS6.2 on eBay, > it's in like-new condition. > > If you wanna play samples, you can just get a few CDs with sounds, run a > soft sampler such as Specimen on your computer, get a cheap but good > MIDI controller, and that's it. Also, to help illustrate some of the more frequently overlooked features of samplers in general, I put together a simple feature matrix. http://ruinaudio.com/sample_feature_matrix.html Could be an interesting point of discussion since there's suddenly so many software samplers for linux being developed. -ry
