Samplers.
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- grafiske
Anyone here use them?
I am looking for a kind of explanation on what they do, how they are used, but primarily the ways they are used with bands like TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, or Efterklang.
- ApeRobot0
i got an akai s950 witch is not user friendly.
Got also a mpc2000xl.
Basically nowadays software are really good at sampling.
Faster to learn and easy to use, for example ableton.
- grafiske0
Well I imagine these bands use them primarily for their reliability - aka not cool to be playing for 12 trillion people and your computer crashes, which is why I am interested in knowing more.
I also write music - and I can imagine it would be useful to take a sound and put it in one of these things and have a sort of standard way of manipulating - limited even.
I am wondering if it makes it quicker - like you drop a sound in and you can easily assign different semitones, or essentially creates a scale out of your sound? Things like that.. if that makes sense.
- hardware has it's own problems too, and these days software sampler can be more versatile than hardware counterpartsMiguex
- People play live shows with computers all the time these days. All the time. No big deal.boobs
- yeah, I understand if this message was written in 1998, but ableton is pretty solidMiguex
- Miguex0
I did have an MPC long time ago, I've been using mainly ableton instead of hardware, with controllers like the MPD that resemble the MPC samplers in use and feel.
- all hail the MPC - 6000 roger linn edition and the sp-1200manonthestreet
- Thank God that he is not the spokesperson for MPC. His Enrgish is horrible... Know wat I sayin'...utopian
- ApeRobot0
software are faster regarding those type of manipulations.
Back in the days sample had different types of sampling engine,that give them specific sound.(12bits,16bits, 22050hz,44100hz etc)Some of them got powerful envelopes and filters but that is basicly it.
Modern sampler use CD quality,so basically except special functions it sound like if your listening to a CD
- boobs0
This should answer some questions:
- Miguex0
Looper on Ableton
- letterhead0
I just picked up a used sp-505 on a whim at guitar center. $105.
you can play samplers live to trigger phrases, drum sounds, or loops. You can also use samplers to record your actions and play later as songs. Some people will sample parts of songs and loop them. Or, you can chop up your samples and re-arrange them to make something completely new. The art of sampling is about recording, or "sampling" any sound, modifying it and combining it with other sounds turning it into music.
- sublocked0
^ oops...
- kingsteven0
AC use SP555s, they basically just allow you to take your sounds and loops away from a computer, give a bit of flexibility live...
- that's a really dumb ipod commercialsublocked
- also big fucking buttons with lights on them are better than keys any daykingsteven
- think that's the point subkingsteven
- grafiske0
I unfortunately can't watch these videos until later - but thanks!
Letterhead - is that specific sampler good for chopping and combining sounds?
I'd like to start dabbling with something that is relatively inexpensive.
- letterhead0
I'd say any used BOSS SP series, if you can find them for a good price, would be the best way to inexpensively dabble into the sampling hardware universe.
The 505 can automatically chop a sampled drum sequence and assign individual drum sounds to pads, which is a pretty cool feature for experimenting with rearranging and combining drum patterns. it only has an 8 note polyphony though, meaning you can only combine 8 sounds at a time.
- yep, except the 202.kingsteven
- yup, avoid the 202!letterhead
- sublocked0
sorry, i'll stop posting videos. i'd recommend mpc1k + JJOS, but just because i'm an owner of one.
i never liked the roland/boss samplers too much.