![]() ![]() ![]() I would call it the MPCLive4000DigitaktSP16EMUSP1200Volca-X The thing that could really be improved upon at the moment is a decent performance sampler with lots of realtime tweakability. The lack of a rack version is not a matter of willingness, it's a lack of market.I mostly agree - I'm a fan of samplers (currently have mpc 4000, s950, Pioneer SP16) and I DO think there is a gap in the market but it isn't for a S6000 on steroids for all the reasons mentioned above. That describes a Kronos or Montage to a T. What they don't want to be confronted with is what it's running under the hood, or displaying all the other annoyances and trappings of a consumer/business oriented OS, which is that it appears to be wasting its time on other things besides sampling. #RENOISE SAMPLER SET POLYPHONY LIMIT PC#My conclusion of all of this is that the sampler on steroids people dream of is a PC with an audio interface and a nice package. The lack of a rack version is not a matter of willingness, it's a lack of market. Of course, it's nice to have actual sampling in a sampler, but once recorded, you tend to treat the files as in a library and load them up - not by re-recording them through inputs. Recording is - now that virtually all customers have audio interfaces and editing options in their own computer - not such an issue anymore. Much like your phone can take pictures and thus killed the standalone point & shoot, you have a sample playback option in workstations like a MODX, Montage or Kronos. Vanilla sample playback has become a feature, instead of its own device. What scenarios does this leave open? Well, your own material treating a sampler more as a synthesizer with arbitrary-length waveforms that can be processed and run through a variety of DSP. They want you to use their walled garden. If they choose their own - EastWest or Spitfire or VSL - they also keep the format shut. NI has no benefits from opening up the format, and it's harder to reverse engineer than whatever Akai or E-mu came up with. ![]() The idea of loading stuff into RAM is even getting outdated SSDs are fast enough to stream from directly, and the RAM acts as a buffer because it's not like you're going to play all those notes at once.Īrguably the biggest problem is that sample library developers have already chosen their champion, kind of, which is Kontakt. Backups are done really quickly via a network dumping everything on an USB stick is not a proper backup mechanism. You'll have more storage, and you want backups. Nowadays, the idea of having a single 4 GB harddisk in a box in a studio with all your precious musical material is quite simple ridiculous. Expandability? Add more or bigger industry-standard parts. ![]() The part that was special was the part that was otherwise hard to get in general purpose computing be it DSP, or simultaneous playback and summing of a large number of audio fragments. Samplers generally didn't reinvent the RAM or the harddisk they used industry-standard SIMMs and DIMMs and SCSI. It just added the DAC/ADC part and outsourced its playback to dedicated hardware. Still, the Fairlight CMI was built on an off-the-shelf computer. Downloading games on a BBS was already taxing, let alone big samples. Additionally, if you know the loading speed of a Commodore 64, it's not exactly great transfer to external devices would be even slower. It would be unreasonable of sampler manufacturers back then to expect you to buy something like that just to be able to operate their machine. There was a very strong case for this to be offered in a single box in the 80s because you couldn't assume your potential customers already had a personal computer, and if they had one, you couldn't count on what they had - a Commodore 64? Amiga? Atari? Apple ][? IBM compatible? Too much effort to build something for each one of 'm. a low-overhead OS that spends as many cycles as possible on the ability to make sound, and as few as possible on other tasks. sample storage, management and programming If you look at an S6000 as what a sampler should offer, you get: It is always important to keep the zeitgeist of the device in mind. ![]()
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