Back on topic ..... Sampling

[Kevin Day]

Paul Perry wrote:

> ...what I wanted for performance/installation purposes is a box with:
> 1. a gate to say when to start sampling
> 2. a memory consisting of old computer dram so it is very cheap
> 3. a cv input that says what part of the memory to start playing back at
> 4. a cv in that says what speed to start playing back at
> 5. a cv that says where to stop playing back
> 6. possibly an auto loop function, but if you have the above basics you can
> do pretty much what you want..

Are you familiar with the Akai S612?  It's quite primitive (one voice, 384k ram,
12 bit samples) but might be a candidate for modification.  Stock, it has #1,
sliders for #3 and #5, and a poor-to-average #6.    It probably uses old computer
dram, too, but that doesn't get you anywhere because it's not expandable.  All in
all, it's worth what you pay for it these days, IMHO.   The only thing it really
lacks is a pitch CV (but of course it has MIDI).  I doubt it would be very
difficult to CV up the loop start/stop sliders... and if somehow somebody got
ahold of the schematics (which don't seem to be available) I suppose a pitch CV
isn't out of the question.

If anybody has done any cool modifications to a S612, please let me know what you
did.  :)

kevin