Buggy Whips [was]Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[Richard Wentk]

At 22:07 26/12/2004, JH. wrote:

>Well I never liked Zoolook, but I admire the early sampling from Peter
>Gabriel and Kate Bush.

Zoolook never did much for me either. I think the definitive sampling CD is 
Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise. Classic.

Hounds of Love has some choice moments too. Like I said, those are 
*interesting* sounds, which is why they work.

>Personally I've resisted to buy a sampler for "how long are they around 
>now?" -

It's amazing how uncreative most sampling is today. AON, PG and the rest 
were doing much more interesting things with it twenty years ago. That 
sense of adventure seemed to fade as soon as producers started sampling 
other producers, off CD and vinyl.

>but I'd love to find out what massive amount of memory can do to
>typical ROMpler applications like (unlooped) Grand Pianos or Church Organs.

Not much. Much of the acoustic character of these sounds comes from 
resonances that aren't copied by one-note-at-a-time sampling. None of the 
gigasampled pianos I've heard have come close to the real thing.

Richard